Garry Struthers Associates
Specialty: Engineering, environmental science, construction management and remedial construction services;
specializing in water, wastewater and environmental transportation
Principals: Garry Struthers, president and CEO; Jan Rosholt, senior vice president
2002 revenues: N/A
Projected 2003 revenues: N/A
Struthers
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Business continues to be busy for Garry Struthers Associates, an environmental engineering and general contracting firm with more than 100 employees in offices in Bellevue, Portland and Springfield, Va.
Garry Struthers, company president and CEO, said there is a lot of business in transportation projects these days.
“We see a lot of environmental work that’s tied to transportation projects,” Struthers said. “That seems to be where the growth market is.”
One of the company’s largest projects last year was working with Sound Transit on site assessments for the future light rail project through the Rainier Valley.
Other areas generating a lot of work include compliance auditing and occupied spaces issues such as mold and air quality.
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“There’s a lot more issues in regard to employees, their health and well being inside buildings,” Struthers said. While energy codes have been moving toward tightening buildings up, the overall consequence has been an increase in the amount of challenges with regards to air quality, he said.
Struthers said he doesn’t expect occupied space issues to take over the industry, however. “That market is not tremendously big.” Like other issues, such as cleaning up large industrial sites, once those problems are solved and issues taken care of, the demand for that kind of work will go down.
One area requiring ongoing work is habitat protection and clean water. “I don’t know that we’ve had the full effect of putting salmon on the endangered species list,” Struthers said.
GSA has been involved with clean water projects including the Denny Way and Henderson/Martin Luther King CSO projects, and is currently working with HDR Engineering as part of the design team for the Brightwater treatment plant.
One of the firm’s specialities is its integrated management system, using its experience as both a general contractor and engineering firm to provide total solutions to environmental problems. “We think that’s more of the type of delivery that many clients are turning to now,” Struthers said.