NEWS

Virginia engineering consulting firm joins S&ME
6/05/06

Raleigh, NC – S&ME, a 750-member engineering and environmental firm headquartered in Raleigh, has acquired Virginia Geotechnical Services (VGS) of Richmond, Virginia.

VGS, with 28 professional and support staff, was established in 1987 and has performed numerous geotechnical engineering, construction testing and environmental services projects in Virginia and surrounding states.

The Richmond branch will become S&ME’s 21st office. The company’s other offices are in North and South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee.

The branch will continue to use the VGS name, which is well known in the Virginia market area. Among its prominent projects, VGS played a key role in the geotechnical design efforts for pile foundations for bridges and ramps for an I-95 and U.S. 1 interchange crossing the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland. The work required 80 test boring explorations made on land, from barges and in wetlands with VGS laboratory testing of a wide variety of types of clay.

S&ME president, John R. Browning said he was pleased that VGS was joining forces with S&ME. “I welcome VGS to the S&ME family. Though we have provided services in Virginia previously, this acquisition provides major new opportunities for strengthening our position in that market. The VGS staff experience and variety of engineering and geologic skills is impressive.”

S&ME was established in 1973. The firm has won more than 50 Engineering Excellence awards and is included in Engineering News-Record magazines top 100 “Pure Design” firms.

For more information about these news items, contact: 
Larry Hammerstein
Senior Editor
S&ME, Inc. 
P.O. Box 58069 
Raleigh, NC 27658 
(919) 872-2660