By: Howard Finch, Ph.D.Professor of FinanceBrock School of BusinessSamford University This year, Birmingham-based engineering firm Sain Associates celebrates its 50th anniversary. It is difficult for the average person to comprehend how rare this is, or to gauge the magnitude of impact that a long-lived small business can have on local communities. Here are some things…
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The American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) annual Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) competition recognizes engineering firms for projects that demonstrate an exceptional degree of innovation, complexity, achievement, and value. Award entries are submitted through a statewide competition and can later be entered at the national level. Sain Associates supports ACEC Alabama, ACEC Tennessee, and ACEC…
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Celebrating 50 years in business is a big deal to us. We could not be more excited to celebrate our firm’s history, success, and incredible accomplishments that have been achieved thanks to our amazing clients, employees, and leadership team. This month, we are thrilled to look back at the awards honoring Sain’s projects and staff….
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In last week’s blog, we highlighted the history of civil and traffic engineering at Sain Associates, and on Tuesday, Joe Meads shared the history behind our surveying team. Today, we’ll explore the story behind geographic information systems (GIS) and construction engineering and inspection (CE&I) services. As we celebrated our firm’s 40th anniversary in 2012, we…
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In 1972, Charles “Hack” Sain founded Sain Associates with a goal to do what no others were doing: uniting engineers, architects, and contractors in seamless communication, planning, and execution. Determined to give clients his best, Sain created ways to contribute from the first strategic phases of new hospitals, landfills, roads and bridges, golf courses, power…
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When Sain Associates opened its doors in 1972, the business consisted of consulting engineering services and land surveying. Many projects included site engineering for enclosed shopping malls across the southeast. Believe it or not, some of the mall projects from the 1970s are still in operation today, including the Santa Rosa Mall in Mary Esther,…
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I joined Sain 29 years ago to fulfill Hack’s vision of diversifying the company with traffic engineering services. At the time, Sain was primarily working on private sector work, including Wal-Mart projects in the Eastern United States and large shopping malls. After joining the team in 1993, I was tasked with leading a traffic engineering…
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We are excited to recognize a huge career milestone in just a few short days – Alicia Bailey, PE, Practice Leader / Sr. Principal, is celebrating her 20th anniversary with Sain Associates. Alicia wears many hats at our company, leading our Infrastructure and Survey teams and serving as a member of our Executive Committee. We appreciate…
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Long Range Transportation Plans (LRTP) are an essential element of an agency’s transportation planning process. A traditional LRTP is a 20-year planning horizon vision document that reflects the application of programmatic transportation goals to project prioritization. Transportation plans are conducted at the National, Regional, and unit level for Federal Land Management Agencies (FLMAs). LRTPs include financial components…
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A Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is a federally designated transportation policy-making body composed of representatives from local governments and transportation agencies in the designated planning region. Federal legislation passed in the 1960s required urbanized areas with a population over 50,000 to establish a metropolitan planning organization to ensure that existing and future transportation expenditures in…
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