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A Celebration of Growth! On September 30th, 2021, W&A Engineering celebrated officially becoming a centurial force, now having over a hundred employees building better communities all across the southeast! In an all-day event celebrating this incredible milestone, W&A team members gathered to welcome new team members, enjoy the company of their work family, and launch … Continued

Clayton joined the W&A Engineering family in 2021 with over 30 years of success linking strategic planning and long-term growth objectives with routine operational execution. He is known for building, leading, and enabling high-performing teams while crafting and implementing successful strategies to drive productivity and efficiency. His methods help teams improve speed, accuracy, and the … Continued

Nearly everyone at some point in their lives will need time away from work to welcome a new child or care for a loved one who is ill. W&A Engineering is proud to support paid family leave and provides twelve weeks of paid maternity leave to its employees as well as four weeks paid paternity … Continued

W&A is thrilled to congratulate our client, Landmark Properties, as we near completion on another local community-centric development known as ‘The Retreat on Milledge’ that sits on 37 remote acres of underdeveloped property and is adjacent to an extension of the University of Georgia’s Agriculture Department.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECobb County, GA W&A Engineering Expands into Metro Atlanta W&A Engineering announced today the expansion of their team into Metro Atlanta. W&A Engineering continues to grow its reach across the southeastern United States as they carry out their mission to build better communities. Over the past two decades, W&A has grown into a … Continued

For more than 20 years, W&A Engineering and Donald W. Hansford Law have partnered to host their Annual BBQ as a way to give thanks to their clients and community partners. With over 600 community members in attendance in 2019, planning for the event in 2020 proved to be a challenge due to COVID-19 gathering … Continued

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“Being a female humanities junior scholar in the engineering industry has been such an incredible journey,” she said. “I could not be prouder to be part of a firm that truly goes beyond profit and builds better communities.”

We are delighted to announce that Andrew Walker has officially joined W&A Engineering as a project engineer at our headquarter office in Athens, Georgia. Later this month, he will be graduating from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and will be an official member of our civil engineering team. Andrew … Continued

W&A Engineering is thrilled to announce that we have been named the 2021 Athens-Clarke County Business and Industry Waste Reduction Winner! At W&A Engineering, we strive to leave things better than we found them in our process of building better communities. We have dedicated ourselves to environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions for our clients, but … Continued

W&A Engineering is overjoyed to announce that we have been honored with receiving the go Beyond Profit 2021 Champion Award. This peer-nominated award is given for exemplary citizenship in company culture and deployment of company resources that empower community. Joining past recipients such as Gas South, Georgia Power, and Creature Comforts, W&A is elated to … Continued

This week, W&A Engineering celebrates National Surveyors Week, celebrated every March during the week after the month’s third Sunday. National Surveyors Week was proposed February 13, 1984 by President Ronald Reagan. In fact, many of our early presidents have been instrumental in land surveying. At the age of 17, Georgia Washington was appointed to serve … Continued

We are incredibly pleased to announce that the new Nashville office is officially open. Our Nashville staff has been operating in this new building for a few weeks, but yesterday we were able to commemorate its official opening with a ribbon cutting ceremony. “Building better communities and being a part of the overall company culture … Continued

February was book drive month for our Charity of Choice, Books for Keeps! In the spirit of friendly office competition, four members of our leadership team competed to see how many books they could collect within the W&A family. In three short weeks, we more than doubled our goal! The competition is still going strong … Continued

As part of our employee wellness program, W&A Engineering hosts an annual health screening for our employees. During this health screening, W&A welcomes in the wonderful nurses of Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center to provide our employees with fundamental health information between regularly scheduled doctor’s visits. “W&A’s Annual Employee Health Screenings provide us with a … Continued

Meet Patrick Waylor from W&A Engineering’s Athens office! Patrick Waylor has been with W&A Engineering since September of last year, though he has been practicing landscape architecture for over twenty years. A project manager in the Planning Department, Patrick assists both the Planning and Landscape Architecture teams on various planning and design projects. Above all, … Continued

Meet Adam Bledsoe, RLS at W&A Engineering Nashville! Adam is the Director of Surveying for our W&A Engineering Nashville office, and we are so pleased to have added him to our W&A team. With the Nashville addition being W&A Engineering’s most recently established office, Adam is inspired by the potential for growth he sees in … Continued

Today, January 28th in our parking lot, family and friends gathered for a socially distanced celebration of W&A Engineering’s first twenty years with the long-awaited unveiling of our vicennial anniversary sculpture. This newest addition to our headquarters in Athens, Georgia has stood under a tarp for the past several weeks, building anticipation for what lay … Continued

Meet Emily Grube, one of the newest additions to the W&A family, operating as the Chief of Talent Acquisition & Retention! Emily came to W&A Engineering with extensive experience working in talent acquisition, having recruited engineering candidates for firms all across the United States throughout her career. In fact, W&A was her very first client! … Continued