Our Partners

Our Partners

Thank you to our amazing partners for 2022!

Platinum Sponsors

Hazen

Over the past 70 years, Hazen and Sawyer has excelled in delivering exceptional service and solutions for our clients. Our excellence is fueled by our staff. Our Vision, Mission, and Core Values have shaped our success, and today, inform our actions and guide our course – as they relate to serving our clients and empowering our staff.

Highfill Infrastructure Engineering, PC

HIGHFILL's team of highly experienced engineers specializes in helping you get the most value from your aging water and wastewater infrastructure. Our goal is to serve as an extension of your staff and provide the highest quality service possible. 

Gold Sponsors

Brown and Caldwell

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction firm with 52 offices and 1,800 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For 75 years, our creative solutions have helped municipalities, private industry, and government agencies successfully overcome their most challenging water and environmental obstacles. As an employee-owned company, Brown and Caldwell is passionate about exceeding our clients’ expectations and making a difference for our employees, our communities, and our environment. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com.

CDM Smith

CDM Smith is a global privately owned engineering and construction firm providing legendary client service and smart solutions in water, environment, transportation, energy and facilities. With the power of independence, we make decisions based on what’s best for our clients and our employees, not outside investors. We reinvest in our people, tools and technology to find better solutions and foster amazing careers. Whether you’re an employee, client, partner or stakeholder – we’re the people you want to be working with. We are CDM Smith.

Garver

Founded in 1919, Garver is an employee-owned multi-disciplined engineering, planning, architectural, and environmental services firm with more than 1,000 employees across the United States. Offering a wide range of services focused on aviation, construction, facilities, federal, survey, transportation, water, and wastewater, Garver sits in the top 125 of the Engineering News-Record's prestigious Top 500 Design Firms list and is consistently recognized as a best firm to work for.

Heyward, Inc.

Heyward’s mission is to provide the best products and the highest quality of service to its customers. All of Heyward’s sales engineers hold degrees in Mechanical, Civil, Environmental, or Electrical Engineering. Currently, seven (7) engineers are licensed by the Board in North and/or South Carolina. In addition, the sales support staff includes an aftermarket sales team, OEM and instrumentation sales specialists, project management assistants, Heyward Services engineering, and service personnel.

WK Dickson

For nearly a century, our employees' spirit, pride, passion, and integrity have made this company great. Imagine a company that puts people ahead of profits. Imagine a company that focuses on innovative client solutions that benefit the entire community. Imagine developing critical infrastructure projects that are safe and resilient. WK Dickson puts in the hard work so that imagination becomes reality. 

Silver Sponsors

AECOM

We’re trusted advisors — planners, designers, engineers, consultants and program and construction managers — delivering professional services spanning cities, transportation, buildings, water, new energy, and the environment. Working throughout the project lifecycle, we’re one team driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Freese and Nichols

Freese and Nichols is a privately owned engineering, planning and consulting firm serving clients across the Southwest and Southeast United States. Founded in 1894, we offer stability as a long-term trusted advisor and use our national expertise to meet contemporary challenges. As the first engineering/architecture firm to earn the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, we consistently deliver award-winning solutions backed by superior client-focused support. 

GHD

We are a global professional services company that leads through engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Our forward-looking, innovative approaches connect and sustain communities around the world. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are focused on building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.

HDR

We believe that the way we work can add meaning and value to the world. That ideas inspire positive change. That coloring outside the lines can illuminate fresh perspectives. And that small details yield important realizations. Above all, we believe that collaboration is the best way forward.

We specialize in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. While we are most well-known for adding beauty and structure to communities through high-performance buildings and smart infrastructure, we provide much more than that. We create an unshakable foundation for progress because our multidisciplinary teams also include scientists, economists, builders, analysts and artists.

Willis Engineers

At Willis Engineers we successfully complete large, complex projects because we are organized, efficient, and have a level of experience unsurpassed in our industry.  While many engineering firms focus on expanding markets and geographical growth, we have intentionally limited our scope of services to public water and wastewater utilities in the Piedmont area of North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina.  This ensures we can provide responsive client service for every project we undertake.

Bronze Sponsors

Davis Martin Powell Engineers and Surveyors

DMP is one of the largest engineering firms headquartered in the North Carolina Triad area. DMP employs multiple skilled Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors and provides services in Civil/Site and Municipal Engineering, Surveying, Subsurface Utility Engineering and Construction Management/Inspection.

We seek to leverage technical innovation to create value in our services and look for ways to creatively solve problems for the benefit of our clients. DMP has an excellent reputation for integrity and quality of service, which is evident by our extensive list of long term, repeat clientele.

Garney Construction

Garney Construction’s story begins in 1961, when Charles Garney left his father’s Kansas City plumbing business to start his own pipeline and utility construction company. Over the next two decades, Garney expanded into related construction activities and other regions of the country. Soon, Garney was known as one of the nation’s leading contractors in water and wastewater systems. Our company’s growth is continually powered by employee-owners who embody the business integrity and excellence in service Charles Garney brought to the company more than half a century ago.

Jacobs

Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific, and project delivery for the government and private sector.  Together, we’re pushing the limits of what’s possible. We are committed to our clients by bringing innovative solutions that lead to growth and shared success. Our mission is to support thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, and scientific discovery, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

McGill Associates

McGill began operations in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1984. Over the past 38 years, the firm has expanded to include offices in Hickory, Pinehurst, Raleigh, Shallotte, and Smithfield, North Carolina; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Williamsburg, Virginia. From a few employees in an office on College Street nearly 4 decades ago, to more than 130 employees across 8 locations, McGill has remained faithful to the firm’s founding commitment: to provide high-quality, timely service to our clients. In an industry that is continually evolving, McGill has shown devotion to producing unequaled, up-to-date work in a variety of professional services. Our team now consists of experts in a myriad of disciplines, including civil, electrical, environmental, MEP, solid waste, water and wastewater, land planning and recreation, and consulting. We assist our clients in identifying and resolving problems, developing cost-effective and innovative solutions, and ensuring successful project completion — and we will continue to do so in accordance with the firm’s primary mission. Through effective collaboration, we help shape the best outcomes for each client and community.
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McKim & Creed

The Raleigh, North Carolina-based company, which was founded in 1978, specializes in civil, environmental, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and structural engineering; industrial design-build services; airborne and mobile LiDAR/scanning; unmanned aerial systems; subsurface utility engineering; and hydrographic and conventional surveying services for the energy, transportation, federal, land development, water and building markets.

WithersRavenel

At WithersRavenel, we design the places and the supporting infrastructure to enhance people’s health, happiness, and well-being. By matching our clients’ vision with multi-disciplinary technical expertise and a deep well of experience, we help them safeguard their natural resources, deliver critical utilities, create attractive spaces for recreation and commerce, and drive economic development through carefully planned land use. From concepts to concrete, we transform our clients’ dreams into realities that shape and reflect our shared values of integrity, respect, collaboration, quality, sustainability, and community.

2026-27 Silver & Bronze Sponsors

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