Bowman today announced it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Exeltech Consulting, Inc. (“Exeltech”) based in Lacey, Washington. Exeltech specializes in bridge design, transportation planning, environmental compliance, civil engineering, landscape architecture, permitting and construction management for owners and operators of transportation infrastructure, transit facilities, ports and harbors, waterfront developments, building structures, and storm drainage and utility systems. Led by Santosh Kuruvilla, PE, SE, PMP, Exeltech serves clients throughout the Pacific Northwest from offices in Washington, Oregon, and Montana.

“Exeltech complements Bowman from both a services and geographic footprint perspective,” said Gary Bowman, chairman and CEO of Bowman. “The structural bridge design and transportation infrastructure experience of the Exeltech team expands the capacity and reach of our rapidly growing national transportation and ports and harbors practices. Their location directly complements our recent FCS acquisition and strengthens our presence in the Pacific Northwest.  Given that we’ve already begun collaborating with Exeltech on projects, I expect a meaningful amount of revenue and utilization synergies from this combination.”

“We have steadily grown Exeltech and successfully expanded our reach within our markets, and now we want to extend our reach nationally,” said Santosh Kuruvilla, president of Exeltech. “Joining with Bowman offers us the opportunity to align with a rapidly growing national firm with a commitment to expanding in areas where we are highly experienced. We believe we can be consequential in that effort and look forward to introducing our team’s extensive structural bridge and civil transportation capabilities into Bowman’s portfolio of service offerings.”

Exeltech’s structural engineering team brings extensive expertise in the design, inspection, assessment, repair, retrofit, replacement, load rating and construction of a wide range of structures. Their knowledge spans local, state and federal requirements for roadway and pedestrian bridges, grade separations, tunnels, culverts, retaining walls, fixed and floating structures, as well as marinas, piers, wharves, breakwaters, docks and both new and historic buildings. Exeltech’s civil engineering team supports a wide range of projects including roadways, roundabouts, pedestrian and bicycle enhancements, parking, parks and trails, airports, marine facilities, railroads, fish passage improvements, culvert replacements and general use site development. Additionally, Exeltech’s environmental sciences team focuses on creating highly constructible, cost-effective designs that deliver the highest degrees of regulatory, environmental and sustainability standards.

“Stakeholder engagement is routine in public works project development, and incorporating biophilic exploration early in the process benefits agencies and the communities they serve,” Jasmine Aryana writes in the Summer 2023 APWA Washington State PublicWorks magazine.

Jasmine is a Senior Project Manager/Landscape Architect at Exeltech Consulting and chairs the APWA Washington Biophilic Design Committee.

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(Olympia, May 1, 2023) Dr. Allyson Brooks, Washington State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) has announced the 2023 award recipients for Outstanding Achievements in Historic Preservation. Each year, the Washington SHPO recognizes people, projects, and organizations throughout the state that have achieved distinction in the field of historic preservation.

Washington State Parks, the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation and Exeltech Consulting are honored for the Beverly Bridge rehabilitation, a project that embodies the power of community partnerships at their finest. The former railroad bridge was constructed in 1909 to connect Milwaukee Road’s transcontinental route from Chicago to Puget Sound, traversing one of the most challenging crossings of the Columbia River. This feat of engineering fell into disrepair after the bankrupt railroad company abandoned the line in 1980. Damage from a 2014 wildfire landed the bridge on the Washington Trust’s most endangered places list in 2017. Through advocacy and support from organizations invested in this region’s historic preservation, recreation, and revitalization, the Beverly Bridge was repurposed as a trail for hikers, cyclists, and equestrians. Advocates for the project include the John Wayne Pioneer Wagons and Riders, Friends of the Kittitas Depot, City of Kittitas, Kittitas County Public Utility District, Palouse to Cascades Trail Coalition, Cascade Rail Foundation, and Rails to Trails Conservancy. The cost-effective rehabilitation plan preserved the grand appearance of the historic structure with minimal site disturbance resulting in a critical investment in Washington State tourism that will continue to enrich the lives of Washingtonians.

Exeltech is excited to welcome Douglas Kirkpatrick, PE, as a Senior Project Manager in the firm’s Engineering Services/Bridges - Structures group in Beaverton, Oregon. Douglas will focus on bridge and transportation projects in Oregon and provide project management, owner’s representative, and engineering services to Exeltech’s public agency clients. Douglas brings 30 years of bridge design experience as a team leader and engineer on high-profile public infrastructure projects in the western United States, including the Oregon Transportation Initiative Act III (OTIA III) Statewide Bridge Delivery Program to repair and/or replace 365 bridges; the I-15 Design-Build project, a $1.59 billion highway contract that reconstructed 16 miles of Interstate 15 through the Salt Lake City metropolitan area in time for the 2002 Winter Olympics; and numerous Oregon Department of Transportation and local agency bridge projects throughout the I-5 and I-205 corridors.

Earlier in his career, Douglas was on the engineering design team that conducted initial seismic vulnerability assessments of City of Seattle bridges during Phase 2 of the Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program, including the Ballard, University, and Fremont Bridges. Coming full circle, Douglas provides valuable insight to Exeltech’s engineering team as retrofit design of vulnerable bridges in Oregon and Washington continues.

Last year, construction of the new Des Moines Marina bulkhead, breakwater, parking lot, and restroom was well underway and last month we celebrated the ribbon-cutting! Thank you, City of Des Moines and community members! Prime Consultant: Exeltech Consulting, Inc. Subconsultants: Mott MacDonald  Shannon & Wilson, Inc. MAKERS architecture and urban design LLP  KPG  BLRB Architects  Geosyntec Consultants  Aqua Terra Cultural Resource Consultants  Materials Testing and Consulting, Inc. (MTC) Contractor: Bergerson Construction, Inc.

We are proud to receive the Best in State ACEC Washington State Gold Award for Social, Economic and Sustainable Design for the Beverly Bridge Rehabilitation! Congratulations to all the winners, and our team members Aqua Terra Cultural Resource Consultants, Collins Engineers, Inc., Erlandsen & Associates, Inc. and our client partner Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission – what an accomplishment!

This Throwback Thursday we revisit the Beverly Bridge Predesign Study. Commissioned by the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, Exeltech evaluated the feasibility—and developed a strategy—to rehabilitate the historic railroad bridge for use as non-motorized trail. The resulting Predesign Report was submitted to the Washington State Office of Financial Management for use in creation of the Governor’s 2019-21 biennium budget, which recommended funding for the subsequent rail-to-trail conversion project.
Learn more about the historic Beverly Bridge and its passionate supporters in this video, produced by Exeltech for the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, at https://lnkd.in/gFntH4Jc.

The Exeltech team welcomed the new year and honored peers at the company’s Hollywood-themed New Year Party and Awards Banquet Friday, January 21, at The Museum of Flight Red Barn in Seattle.
Every December, Exeltech employees nominate their peers for outstanding performance. Exeltech’s guiding philosophy is that People, Not Companies, Successfully Deliver Projects. Honorees for 2022, and excerpts from their nominations, include:
TEAMWORK:
Damoon M. “Always open to accepting new tasks and new challenges”
Philip Wong, P.E./Inspection Team Leader “Every task that he’s handed gets done well for the sake of the project and the team.”
INNOVATION:
Saeed Javidi “A leader in providing innovative solutions to difficult engineering problems for our clients.”
Nancy Pence “Represents Exeltech as innovative in an innovative way.”
LEADERSHIP:
Kevin Weed “Always looking to lead by example.”
Ian Cannon “Available whenever I needed higher level input.”
EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR:
Matthew Budsberg “Management and interaction skills which got the job done every time.”
BERNIE CHAPLIN EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR:
Heidi Clayville “Always delivers the best product to her external and internal clients.”
Exeltech instituted the Bernie Chaplin “Employee of the Year Award” in 2020 to recognize and appreciate individuals who exercise qualities essential to the benefit of Exeltech and its clients: a productive, quality-focused, enthusiastic, positive team member. Bernie Chaplin was an inspirational environmental leader for the state of Washington and a giant in his field. He worked for Exeltech after his time at WSDOT and was instrumental in the professional development of many Exeltech employees. 
Exeltech is committed to Excellence, Quality, and Total Client Satisfaction. 

Yes please, more of THIS kind of weather! A glorious day for a site visit last month. Exeltech bridge engineers were in Yakima County for the S. Naches Road Bridge #35 Deck Rehabilitation project.

Multnomah County received a 2022 SIR Award from the Oregon Associated General Contractors (AGC) for the Sellwood Bridge Replacement Project. Ian Cannon, now Exeltech’s Deputy Director of Engineering, was the Program Manager for the Sellwood Bridge project while he was with Multnomah County. The AGC SIR Award is the highest honor attainable within AGC. The SIR award recipient exemplifies the values of Skill, Integrity, and Responsibility.

We gathered at The Gathering! So nice to get the Exeltech team together in person last week for our annual company offsite. We celebrated our veterans and employee anniversaries, welcomed new team members, and talked about the hybrid work model. And, of course, shared accomplishments and plans for the future. The future looks bright!

Heard from Santosh Jacob Kuruvilla that every session at AEC CEO Summit 2022 this week was great! Great company, too, with Washington’s AEC community well represented. Thank you Andrej Avelini and AEC Advisors LLC.

We enjoyed reconnecting (in person!!) with old friends and making new connections at the 2022 Annual WASLA Conference in Seattle last week!

Thank you Skagit County for hosting Exeltech and partners Confluence Environmental Company, Aspect Consulting LLC, Aqua Terra Cultural Resource Consultants, and Harmsen, LLC. We’re excited to work on your fish passage improvement projects!

Another beautiful day in the Pacific Northwest, delineating wetlands along the Newaukum River in Lewis County.

This Throwback Thursday, ahead of Saturday’s planned NASA Artemis I rocket launch, we travel back in time to the summer of 2011, when Exeltech structural engineers returned to historic Hangar 1 at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffet Field to complete a Structural Analysis Report to update the Structural Analysis & Gravity, Seismic, and Wind Vulnerability Study we prepared in 2008. Hangar 1 is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering 8 acres near Mountain View, California. Constructed in 1932 to support US Naval airship operations in the west coast, Hangar 1 was designed and constructed to house the USS Macon airship that was also constructed in 1932.