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  Once again this year we were fortunate to have as our keynote speaker Adrian Cronje, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Balentine Investment and Wealth Management for our 2021 Economic Forecast Event. Even though our event was virtual this year it was very well attended in large part because of Adrian. Adrian’s overview of

A shout out goes to our Charlotte office and Structural Design Engineer Kevin Garrone, PE for the 919 Berryhill adaptive-reuse project! The project includes 2 former warehouse buildings on the west side of Charlotte and will bring office, retail and events space to market. Over 65,000 square feet is being renovated into new commercial space.

  The Superbowl is here and so are we!  

  ATLANTA, January 19, 2021 Bennett & Pless, one of the south’s leading structural engineering firms, is growing again, this time in the Carolinas. Powerhouse structural engineering firm LHC Structural Engineers out of Raleigh, North Carolina, is joining forces with Bennett & Pless, combining their 54 years of experience with the decades-long expertise of Bennett

December 14, 2020, Article 9 Chad Warren, PE – Data Center Design Specialist In the world of enterprise IT, data centers are designed to support business applications and activities that include email and file sharing, productivity applications, extensive data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, communications, and more. With a significant portion of the workforce working

On Sept. 15th, Steve Guinn, Sr. Project Specialist in Charlotte traveled to Alexandria, Louisiana to participate in local disaster relief efforts.  Steve along with members of his church, joined the Louisiana Baptist Disaster Relief Ministry and similar teams from at least a dozen states to help the people of the community in the aftermath of

October 27, 2020, Article 8 Jacob Dodd, PE Signs have been, and are continuing to, pop up everywhere around us. However, they don’t just “pop up.” Our Design Engineer, Jacob Dodd, from our Chattanooga office, is an expert in the structural and support design of the sign and components. He sat down with us recently

Bennett & Pless is pleased to announce that Jake Lamb is joining our team as a Professional Engineer in our Nashville office! After serving in the U.S. Army, Jake graduated from Virginia Tech with a Master of Science degree in structural engineering. Prior to accepting this position, he served as a research and staff engineer

September 30, 2020 Article 7 Norb Wachowski, PE-Sr. Structural Specialist On December 17, 1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright completed four brief flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina inventing the first successful airplane. Since then these marvels of aviation make up on average 102,465 flights a day, and they come in all shapes and sizes. From