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Miami’s BCC Engineering Announces Strategic Acquisitions to Support Expansion Plans
BCC Engineering, LLC (BCC), Lakes Engineering, Inc. (Lakes), and New Millennium Engineering, Inc. (NME) recently announced the merger of their companies to expand their Florida operations into new territories and continue offering cuttingedge transportation, civil and Construction Engineering & Inspection (CEI) services to their established base of clients. BCC has acquired Lakes and NME, and the merged business will progressively transition into the BCC brand.
NME, founded in 2006, has a proud tradition of providing CEI services for public infrastructure projects throughout Florida. Their offices are located in Miami, Davie, West Palm Beach and Maitland. Their highly qualified staff of over 100 construction professionals will grow BCC’s existing Miami CEI business line. Steve McCue, NME’s co-founder and President points out that “The merger with BCC Engineering, one of the best transportation firms in Florida, creates a full-service engineering company that will serve our clients better and will help improve our community.”
Lakes, NME’s sister company, is a multidisciplined engineering firm that is committed to providing the highest quality engineering services to contractors, governmental agencies and private owners. Their three Florida offices and their office in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will strengthen BCC’s existing highway, drainage, and structures services lines, adding more manpower and new relationships, as well as fulfilling BCC’s geographic expansion plans.
“This merger will create the total package for the engineering community,” said Eugenio Ochoa, Lakes’ co-founder and President. “It will extend our areas of practice to a wider market, while making available BCC’s depth of resources to new markets.”
Jose Muñoz, CEO of BCC, said, “Culturally, it’s the perfect fit for our firms to join forces. The strength of NME’s CEI practice and Lakes’ design and specialty engineering practice will further bolster our presence in Florida. The transportation design sector, particularly in the Southeastern United States, is one of the best markets in the country. All forecasts indicate it will continue to develop in the foreseeable future, creating a perfect environment for our companies to continue growing as one of the top engineering firms in the Southeastern U.S.”
HNTB Expands Presence in Bartow
A commitment to client service and future growth potential led HNTB Corporation to expand its presence and open a new, larger office in Bartow. The office serves a range of clients across Florida’s west coast.
“HNTB brings regional and national ex pertise to solving complex transportation challenges for departments of transporta tion, toll agencies, airports, transit agencies and other mobility providers,” said Len Becker, HNTB West Florida Office Leader and Senior Vice President. “We look forward to supporting the local business communi ty, strengthening regional partnerships and contributing to statewide initiatives that will move Florida forward.”
Program management, project management, public engagement, project development, traffic and intelligent transportation systems professionals staff the Bartow of fice today. HNTB anticipates expansion of its personnel to support full-service deliv ery for transportation clients across western Florida.
“With Florida’s ongoing population growth, it’s important that our firm is close to our clients as we work together to help de sign and implement new infrastructure projects aimed at increasing mobility throughout the state,” said Bill Jones, P.E., HNTB Program Manager and Associate Vice President.
Pevida Highway Designers Hires Top Talent, Wins Two Awards
Pevida Highway Designers (PHD) recently announced that Jeremy Botto, P.E. has joined PHD’s West Palm Beach office as Se nior Highway Engineer, and Kennedy Simmonds, P.E. has joined the Orlando office as Senior Drainage Engineer.
Botto has more than 20 years of experience specializing in design-build and complex projects including the I-75/HEFT
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PHD also was awarded one of the Best and Brightest Firms to Work For from the National Association for Business Resources. This award exemplifies the company’s culture of understanding that its “PHDers” are its most important asset. Additionally, PHD founder Walfry Pevida was given the FES Outstanding Technical Achievement award for his contributions as Maintenance of Traffic Engineer for FDOT’s District 4 I-95 Express 3A-2 and 3B-1 projects completed with Prince Contracting and WSP, Inc.
PHD is a DBE-certified highway design firm that focuses on providing innovative/ efficient highway solutions (to private and public clients) that improve quality, provide value, save costs, reduce construction duration and minimize traffic delay, reducing overall impacts to the traveling public.
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