Meet the Owners

Delivering Excellence for Over 26 Years

Building & Earth Sciences is dedicated to providing value to our clients through technical proficiency and timely service. Developing a strong relationship with our clients enables us to serve as a partner rather than a vendor. Our clients’ success then becomes our success as well. Our firm currently maintains a 90% repeat client ratio as a validation of this philosophy.

Our Vision

To be the benchmark for professional service firms.

Our Mission

We create positive and engaging team environments that bring value to our clients by collaboratively working toward their objectives; opportunity for our employees to have ownership as well as financial, professional, and personal growth; and return on investment and sustainable growth to our shareholders.

Our Values

Front row, left to right: Robert Adams, Jeff Cowen, Deepa Bhate, Mark Nolen, Marco Silvestre.
Top row, left to right: Pearson Holt, Matt Adams, Joey Jones, Srdj Boskovic, Jeff Richardson, Joseph Vistad, Kurt Miller, Jeff Pepper, Kevin Edmondson.

Our Purpose

After almost 25 years in business, Building & Earth’s success has heavily depended on a short, three-worded principle: people over profits. Deepa Bhate and fellow engineering professionals Jeff Cowen and Robert Adams envisioned building a company with employee well-being as its cornerstone. They believed that the key to providing superior service to external clients was to maintain an equally strong focus on the “internal clients” — the associates.

In 1999, they founded Building & Earth with a goal of creating a positive and engaging environment for employees that would encourage collaboration and result in exceptional professional engineering services to clients in the design and construction industry.

Through the years, Building & Earth grew its client base by providing quality service and solid technical capabilities, and distinguished itself in the marketplace with a dedication to building client relationships through responsive service and tailored solutions.

By establishing itself as the “benchmark for professional services,” Building & Earth has grown to become a top engineering firm listed in the ENR Top 500 with more than 250 employees and 16 full-service locations across the country.