GeoEngineers

Specialty: Geotechnical, geologic, hydrogeologic, environmental issues
CEO: Jim Miller
Local office: Seattle
2003 revenues: $12 million
2004 projected revenues: $13 million
Largest current project: Remediation of former wood treatment sites in Pierce County

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Photo courtesy GeoEngineers
GeoEngineers is remediating old wood treatment sites in Pierce County.
GeoEngineers CEO Jim Miller said he hopes to continue to find ways to grow business by 10 percent annually. But, he admits, “That may be difficult to sustain in the near term.”

Part of the reason is environmental restoration contracts with U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the Navy have been cut back in scope due to the federal government diverting funds to the war in Iraq.

About 60 percent of the firm’s work is private and 40 percent is public. “We continue to grow environmental services by diversifying the services we offer, with an increasing emphasis on sustainable development and eco-friendly development.”

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Miller
GeoEngineers’ work at the wood treatment sites in Pierce County involved pentachlorophenol, a toxic substance that has “greatly complicated the cleanup costs,” Miller said. The firm has also been working on the Blair Waterway container terminal in Tacoma, doing dredging sediment analysis and addressing upland construction cleanup issues.

Miller believes the traditional environmental practices that his firm has been involved in — assessment and cleanup of contaminated sites — is a strong market, but one that is in decline because each year there are fewer sites.

“What we’re doing is diversifying the services we offer,” he said. “We now have ecological biologists, wetlands scientists and ecological risk assessors. So now we’re involved in numerous wetland restoration projects, fish habitation enhancement projects, and river and stream reclamation projects. We’re also growing into the technical area of environmental data management, using GIS (geographical information systems.)”






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