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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,

We are honored to announce Bennett & Pless was awarded the #11 SPOT on Zweig White’s 2018 Best Structural Engineering Firms to Work For! We’re so fortunate to have such phenomenal engineers and team members! To check out all the 2018 winners, click here

Bennett & Pless was recognized by the Structural Engineers Association of Georgia (SEAOG) for both a Merit Award and Individual Achievement Award at the 2018 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Gala, hosted on Saturday May 19th. The organization recognizes structural engineering firms for their projects and achievements which demonstrate a high caliber of creativity, dedication,