Lisa Stevens

ATLANTA, January 7, 2020 – Two of the South’s best-known structural engineering companies are combining forces and merging. Together, the two entities, Bennett & Pless and Carpenter Wright Engineers, will have offices in seven locations across the southeast and the capability to provide high-level structural engineering services not only in the region but across the […]

Sweanum Soo, Senior Structural Engineer and Ed Gazzola, CEO proudly accepted the third award for the Fox Theatre renovation at the 2019 ACEC Georgia Engineering Awards at the Hyatt Regency on February 23rd. The project received the “Engineering Excellence Honor Award”.

Zinah (Hall) Rosenberg, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Project Manager in the Atlanta office, was recently interviewed on mentoring her son’s Boy Scout troop for the January/February edition of the Engineering Georgia Magazine. Check out page 63 here     

On February 12th, Bennett & Pless hosted their first annual Economic Forecast Luncheon at Dunwoody Country Club with guest speaker Adrian Cronje, Ph. D., CFA. Adrian is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer at Balentine, a wealth management company. He is also a founding partner, Chair of the Investment Strategy Team, and a member

Larry McGinnis, PE, Bennett & Pless’ Vice President in Charlotte, is one of six people which makes up the Academic Advisory Board for the UNC Charlotte Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. The Board is made up of the Civil Engineering Department Head John Daniel, Manuel Zapata, founder of Zapata Engineering and three other senior principals

CEO & President of Bennett & Pless (Best Firm #11 Structural for 2018), a 50-person firm based in Atlanta, GA: A Conversation with Edward Gazzola  Ed Gazzola, M.Eng., P.Eng., PE spoke with Liisa Andreassen at The Zweig Letter to discuss the firm’s performance, staffing and goals.  Read the full article here    

Bennett & Pless wins an honor award for The Fox Theatre renovation project by the ACEC Georgia chapter. The Engineering Excellence Awards are an annual design competition to recognize engineering achievements demonstrating the highest degree of merit and ingenuity. Entries are rated on the basis of uniqueness and originality; future value to the engineering profession;

PROMOTIONS/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Atlanta*Harrison Fidler has relocated from our Charlotte Office to join the Business Development Team in Atlanta *Congratulations to Jamey Brown and Chunhui Song on passing the PE Exam. We are pleased to add them to our growing list of Professional Engineers * Congratulations to Josh Turner for obtaining his PMP Certification in Project Management *Charles Cox, aka “Mort”,

A new headquarters for Corning Optical Communications in Charlotte which will house at least 650 employees has officially topped out. The six-story, 182,170-square-foot office building is being developed at Riverbend Village, a mixed-use development in northwest Charlotte, by local real estate firm Beacon Partners. Beacon broke ground on the building late last year and says

PROMOTIONS/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSAtlanta*Paul Grupe, PE becomes Senior Associate*Rick Seelos, PE, SE obtains his S.E. license*Rex Pless, PE and Co-founder of B&P retired in December 2017 and continues as a structural advisor and mentor  NEW TEAM MEMBERSAtlanta*Caroline Stanton, EIT joins as Design Engineer*Sally Morgan joins as Director of Marketing*Zinah Rosenberg, LEED AP BD+C joins as Senior Project Manager Charlotte*Rob Phillips, PE,