2021 Best Firms to Work For Element

The Best Firms to Work For award recognizes outstanding AEC firms in the US and Canada based on culture, workplace practices, employee benefits, professional development, and employee retention rates. This is the largest employee experience survey in the AEC industry. ELEMENT is honored to be selected as a 2021 Award Winner. We were ranked #9 in the 50-99 Employees Category and #11 in the Civil Engineering Firms Category.

Over the past 15 years, ELEMENT has grown from a team of 3 to more than 100. The members of the ELEMENT family are our greatest asset and the key to our success.

For the complete announcement of all winners, please visit: https://www.zweiggroup.com/2021/05/21/2021-best-firms-to-work-for-list-announced/

ELEMENT Engineering Group Expands Capabilities through Acquisition of OMNI Communications

OMNI complements ELEMENT services with subsurface utility engineering capability

TAMPA, FL, January 5, 2021–ELEMENT Engineering Group (ELEMENT), a minority and disadvantaged business enterprise (MBE/DBE) firm providing civil and transportation engineering and survey services to Florida’s communities, has completed its acquisition of award-winning, woman-owned OMNI Communications (OMNI). OMNI is a recognized provider of subsurface utility engineering (SUE), utility coordination, and public involvement support services. The acquisition will provide both firms’ existing and future clients with a more extensive suite of services and deeper expertise across a growing range of high-stakes projects.

“ELEMENT and OMNI have been collaborating on projects for more than a decade,” says Derek Gil, founder and president of ELEMENT. “Having both started our businesses at the same time with complementary services, we have supported each other and worked together so that, over the years, clients often used our two firms on the same projects. Working together on these projects has only enhanced the synergy between our firms. As we enter a new year, we wanted to build on that synergy in order to more seamlessly, effectively, and efficiently meet the needs of clients who are facing newfound pressures. As one company, we can help clients stay ahead of economic and industry shifts, give our employees more opportunities for professional growth, and accelerate in unison what had previously been two small firms’ efforts to grow organically.”

“ELEMENT is recognized as one of Tampa’s best places to work and for meeting the unique demands of complex projects in ways few other firms can,” says Jennifer Stafford, president of OMNI. “We couldn’t have found a better firm to unite with. As one team, we’ll be better positioned to provide current and future clients the high level of service and technical excellence they have come to expect and rely on. For the next two years, I will help guide clients and teams through the transition.”

The transition is expected to be smooth and swift. ELEMENT and OMNI nurture similar workplace cultures, have employees that augment each other’s expertise; and are certified DBEs–factors that proved key to winning and delivering successful projects.

Before the acquisition, ELEMENT’s services included transportation design, traffic engineering operations, structure design, utilities, civil/site design, and survey and mapping. For years, the firm sought the help of OMNI for projects requiring expertise in SUE, utility coordination. OMNI’s process was not only unique but met ELEMENT’s high standards.

In 2021, ELEMENT will focus on launching a stronger, unified brand more than 15 years in the making.

About ELEMENT:

ELEMENT Engineering Group, LLC (ELEMENT) has served the engineering needs of public- and private-sector clients since 2006 in the areas of transportation engineering, structures, utilities, civil, and survey. ELEMENT’s repeat business rate of 90 percent reflects its commitment to quality services, technical excellence, and high ethical standards on projects of all sizes. ELEMENT is a certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) with various municipalities and governments throughout Florida.

ELEMENT Wins 2018 USF Fast 56 Award

ELEMENT was honored to be a 2018 USF Fast 56 Award Winner. Derek Gil, PE, President earned both his BSCE and MSCE from USF. ELEMENT was founded in 2006 and employs several other alumni. Go Bulls!

“These businesses are a testament to what a quality education at a great university can help an ambitious and industrious person achieve,” said Bill McCausland, executive director of the USF Alumni Association. “They serve as an excellent example of the significant impact of USF alumni, locally, nationally and globally.”

 

ELEMENT Adds Services

ELEMENT is excited to announce that we are now prequalified with FDOT to provide Traffic Engineering and Operations Studies! ELEMENT also provides Minor and Major Highway; Miscellaneous Structures; Signing and Pavement Marking, Lighting, and Signalization; and Survey services.

2016 FICE EEA Honor Award for our Fletcher Avenue Complete Streets Project

This project created mid-block pedestrian crossings that utilize advance street signs, high emphasis crosswalks, Rectangular Rapid Flash Beacons, and adaptive lighting to alert drivers to the presence of a pedestrian crossing the road. To accommodate a bicycle lane and reduce vehicle speeds, lane widths were reduced. In addition, raised landscaped medians were added to improve access management.

ELEMENT Wins CTST Contract…Three-peat!

ELEMENT has been selected for the FDOT District Seven Community Traffic Safety Team (CTST) Consultant Study/Design (Continuing) Contract. We are grateful for this opportunity to improve safety throughout the Tampa Bay area. With the Department’s new Vision Zero traffic safety target; this Contract will be instrumental to the District for driving down severe injury and fatal crashes on the local road network. Intersection and lane-departure crashes are a primary focus area─89 percent of all intersections are on the local roadway system. This Contract is intended to serve as a full-service resource for the District including: the development of full plan sets, safety studies, Highway Safety Manual Benefit to cost analysis, Intersection Control Evaluation (ICE) analysis, additional evaluation techniques for project identification and prioritization, along with a range of other related services. This is ELEMENT’s third consecutive award of this Contract.