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.