TERRACON
Through its approach to innovation and collaboration , Terracon continues to provide key engineering solutions to clients in a booming market
Terracon has been delivering consulting engineering services to clients for more than 50 years . The company , based in Olathe , Kansas , provides geotechnical , environmental , and materials testing services across a number of strategic business sectors , including power generation , oil and gas , transportation and facilities .
Over the last two years , the company has experienced significant growth in one particular sector , power generation and transmission , recording a growth rate of 20 % year-on-year .
Heading up the company ’ s Power
Generation and Transmission team is Blair Loftis , an experienced project manager having worked in the fields of both construction management , financial optimisation and operational risk management within an electrical utility .
Having that experience in risk management , particularly in the engineering construction industry , proves key to Loftis ’ s strategic decision making .
“ Anybody who wants to get into energy , I recommend that they get to the field first ,” he says . “ Spend some time in construction , understand firsthand how projects are executed and then you begin to see the relationship between the design process and implementation of that process in the field . If the design isn ’ t prepared with consideration for how it is going to be built you are headed for problems .”
Loftis feels the power generation market , renewables in particular , is undergoing something of a gold rush , as more and more companies are investing heavily in ways to find more efficient and ultimately costeffective ways to generate power .
50 December 2017