Black & Veatch

Founded in 1915, Black & Veatch provides asset management, construction, consulting, engineering, operations, physical and cybersecurity, procurement, data analytics, sustainability, and program and construction management.[7]

Company Timeline

• 1915 Ernest Bateman Black and Nathan Thomas Veatch form a partnership called Black & Veatch with 12 employees on the payroll.[8]
• 1940 War Department requests that Black & Veatch rebuild Camp Robinson in Little Rock, Arkansas. Other camp projects include Camp Chafee in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, Camp Hale in Pando, Colorado, and other military installations in the Midwest.[9]
• 1948 Work begins for the Atomic Energy Commission at Los Alamos, New Mexico.[9]
• 1950 N.T. Veatch appointed by President Harry Truman to the President's Water Pollution Control Advisory Board.[10]
• 1963 Black & Veatch International is formed.[9]
• 1964 Black & Veatch opens its first regional office in Denver, CO to design a 100 million gallon per day water treatment plant by the Denver Water Board of Colorado.[11]
• 1967 Black & Veatch wins a contract to produce a 60-megawatt power generating unit for Yanhee Electricity Authority of Thailand, now known as EGAT, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand.[11]
• 1976 Black & Veatch opens new building at 11401 Lamar Avenue in Overland Park, Kansas.[9]
• 1985 Black & Veatch acquires Pritchard Corporation.[11]
• 1988 Black & Veatch power division introduces a new computer-aided engineering and project management system called POWRTRAK to be more time efficient and capture new business.[11]
• 1993 Black & Veatch forms UK-based partnership with UK business Tarmac following the latter's acquisition of the privatised UK government agency PSA Projects.[12] This was initially called TBV Consult, but after the partnership was discontinued, it was renamed TPS in 1998.[13]
• 1995 Black & Veatch merges with Binnie & Partners.[14]
• 1996 Black & Veatch acquires Paterson Candy Ltd., a UK-based water treatment process contractor and expands building at 11401 Lamar Avenue.[11]
• 1999 Black & Veatch changes company structure from general partnership to an employee-owned corporation.[15]
• 2005 Black & Veatch acquires RJ Rudden Associates, Lukens Energy Group, and Fortegra,[16] a move that doubles the size of its management consulting business.[11]
• 2006 Black & Veatch acquires the water business of MJ Gleeson in the UK, more than doubling the size of its existing UK water operations.[17]
• 2008 Black & Veatch selected by Eskom to provide project management and engineering services for a 4,800 megawatt power generation facility in South Africa.[18]
• 2009 Black & Veatch repurchases 11401 Lamar Avenue office building in Overland Park, Kansas, and establishes the location as the company's World Headquarters.[19]
• 2009 Black & Veatch launched the infraManagement Group LLC (www.inframanagementgroup.com), a wholly owned subsidiary to assist asset owners with management of water, wastewater, and power-generating assets.[20]
• 2010 Black & Veatch acquired Enspiria Solutions Inc. to expand its scope of smart-grid services.[21]
• 2013 Steve Edwards assumes role as Black & Veatch Chairman, President, and CEO.[11]
• 2015 Black & Veatch celebrates its 100th Anniversary.[11]
• 2018 Black & Veatch and the University of Missouri release a report on the Missouri Hyperloop[22]
• 2020 Black & Veatch names Irvin Bishop Jr. as chief information officer[23]