FIRM OVERVIEW:
Merrick & Company is an employee-owned $105 million engineering, architecture, design-build, surveying, and geospatial solutions professional services firm.

Market Sectors

• Energy
• Security
• Life Sciences
• Infrastructure

Engineering and Architecture

• Life Sciences
• Military & Government
• Fuels & Energy
• Technology Systems/Nuclear
• Civil Infrastructure

GeoSpatial Solutions

• Defense/Intelligence
• Local/State Government
• Federal
• Energy
• Environmental/Water Resources
• Transportation
• International

Office Locations

• Aurora, CO (Headquarters)
• Colorado Springs, CO
• Atlanta, GA
• Duluth, GA
• Albuquerque, NM
• Los Alamos, NM
• Oak Ridge, TN
• San Antonio, TX
• Kanata, Ontario, Canada
• Guadalajara, Mexico
• Mexico City, Mexico

Number of Employees
475

Chair, President, Chief Executive Officer
Ralph W. Christie, Jr., PE

Year Founded
1955

Founders
Sears Merrick
Ed Lecuyer

Corporate Social Responsibility:
Merrick & Company is committed to an ever-outward manifestation of the ethics and practices that have helped the employee-owned company successfully complete projects across the globe. The CSR challenges the firm and its staff to be the best stewards possible in three key areas: economic development, community outreach, and environmental stewardship. Through the CSR, the firm is striving to tread lightly on the environment, contribute to the communities in which the firm works, and build a company that contributes to a sustainable human footprint.

Recent Recognition:

• Engineering News Record Top 500 Design Firms (#107, 2010)
• Engineering News Record Top Architecture Firms (#146, 2009)
• Top Engineering Firm, Colorado Construction 2009
• Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility (CO, GS, NM, TN)
• Best Companies to Work For in Colorado (multiple years)
• American Council of Engineering Companies (multiple awards at local and national levels)

Mission
Through imagination, innovation, and collaboration we create value for our clients, employee-owners, and society.

Vision Statement
In 2020, Merrick & Company will be a growing, employee-owned firm providing advisory, design, management, and operations solutions to meet energy, security, life sciences, infrastructure, and emerging challenges worldwide.

To achieve this vision, Merrick will:

• Leverage the full, multi-disciplinary resources of our company.
• Perpetuate a great workplace culture.
• Continue to advance our leadership position and grow our market share in our core markets.
• Be flexible and entrepreneurial so we can take advantage of new and emerging markets.
• Have strategically located capabilities across the globe.

Market Sector Details

Energy
Merrick’s energy team specializes in serving the unique and complex needs of today’s energy industry. From feasibility studies and process definition to planning, design, engineering, development, and construction management, Merrick serves the renewable energy (biofuels, wind, solar), electric and gas, refining, and nuclear markets. The firm is also involved in the biochemicals market.

Security
Merrick has had a significant presence in the military, nuclear technology, and government markets for over 25 years, with the planning and design of operational and mission critical facilities, mission support facilities, homeland security projects, quality of life facilities, nuclear facilities, hot cells, custom equipment, nuclear technology systems, gloveboxes, and chemical demilitarization equipment, and biocontainment facilities.

Life Sciences
Merrick’s expertise in life sciences focuses on projects within areas encompassing research, diagnostics, product development, and training – and have included some of the United States’ most strategically significant and secure science programs. Merrick’s client list extends across multiple agencies of the federal government, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Defense, and academic, institutional, and private sector clients.

Infrastructure
Merrick’s civil engineering team provides services to both public and private sector clients, with a focus on on municipal, district, water resources, federal works, and land development engineering. The firm’s resources are available to carry a project from the initial stages of feasibility thought complete construction
management. Those resources include civil engineers, roadway and street specialists, water and sewer specialists, drainage specialists, surveyors, military and government, and construction engineers.

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