Our Approach to Corporate
Social Responsibility
Innovation
- We recognize that innovation is an important part of your business. To complement your goals, our staff incorporates innovative solutions into every project.
- Our operations includes a Collaborative Research and Innovation Center for the facilitation and creation of new products and services for the firm.
Our People
We apply our expertise to make projects as sustainable as possible, often leveraging our LEED® Accredited Professionals and Envision™ Sustainability Professionals.
Our Projects
We are committed to helping our clients achieve their sustainability goals.
Our Workplace
We hold ourselves accountable to reducing our waste, energy, and water consumption through an annual reporting process.
Our Community
Giving back is in our DNA. We proudly support many worthy and wonderful causes in our communities.
- More than 60 offices worldwide
- More than 2,000 professionals
- Diverse range of services and specialized expertise
- Companywide Practice Leadership Teams
- Range of services knows no geographic boundaries
More Than Engineering
- Construction Managers
- Program Managers
From modest beginnings, Gannett Fleming was founded in 1915 by Farley Gannett.
Early in 1916, Samuel W. Fleming, Jr. was invited to join the partnership. In May 1916, the firm name was changed to Gannett, Seelye & Fleming.
Today we are
1915
Corporate Safety Program
And So Much More.
The cornerstone of our business was and is consulting engineering, but we have changed…
The staff consisted of two engineers, Farley and his full partner, Ted Seelye, and one office in Harrisburg, Pa.
An Industry Leader
- The nature of our work commands a culture of safety to ensure that employees are safe no matter where their location or job function.
- With significant input and ongoing effort from the firm’s Corporate Safety Group and Safety Committee, the firm provides employees with safety programs and safe workplace practices.
- Corporate Safety and Health Policy
- Below industry average total recordable incident and experience modification rates
- Local safety coordinators
- Employee awareness campaign
- Member of the National Safety Council
- ISNet World client
Hopewell Water Treatment Plant,
Hopewell, Va.
Columbia River Crossing,
Portland, Ore.
Surface Mine Permit Application,
Cove Forge Quarry, Blair County, Pa.
Conowingo Fishing Wharf Enhancements, Darlington, Md.
- Provided project management oversight on behalf of the Federal Transit Administration
- Work involved two federal partners, 12 tribal governments, multiple state agencies, two transit agencies, two cities, and two MPOs
- Results included 50 third-party agreements, shared leadership, financial plans, jurisdictional and cultural difference considerations, nine inter-governmental agreements, and 20 permits
- Modernization of century-old infrastructure
- Civil, structural, facilities, environmental, and instrumentation on alternative delivery method; saved $500,000 in construction costs
- Improved water flows between industrial and domestic pretreatment systems
- Potable system capacity increased from 12 to 18 mgd total
- Prepared surface mine permit and erosion and sedimentation control plan
- Provided wetland delineation
- Supplied stream relocation design and permitting
- Provided stream crossing design
- Enhanced the public’s ability to access the natural resources of northern Maryland
- Provided access for people with disabilities where it was previously limited
Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Runway Expansion,
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.
Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension,
Los Angeles, Calif.
Passive Treatment System for Selenium Reduction,
Southern West Virginia
Harbor Shores Brownfield Redevelopment, Berrien County, Mich.
- Performed investigation of contaminants on 600 acres of industrial properties
- Implemented corrective actions to enable redevelopment of area
- Provided management services and coordinated remediation activities
- Design-build
- Performed initial characterization, on-site pilot testing, design of a full-scale system, and construction of a treatment system
- Achieved tight deadlines
- Saved the clients tens of thousands of dollars per day in EPA fines
- Used state-of-the-art sustainable design features
- Geotechnical, ITS, and construction inspection for 1.5-mile runway expansion
- Extends FLL boundaries by elevating the runway over roadways and a rail line
- Increases airport capacity by accommodating larger passenger aircraft
- Alternative delivery method; $176 million total construction cost
- Project management oversight for six-mile extension
- Increases efficiency by connecting the existing Gold Line to Pasadena without a transfer
- Improves passenger access and safety
- Street improvements around each station provide a healthier walking and bicycling environment
- Accelerated project timeframe serves as a model for future regional projects
Mineral Economics, Southwestern Oregon
Valley Forge Water Main and Stream Restoration,
Schuylkill Township, Pa.
Croton-Harmon Maintenance Facility,
Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Intelligrout®
- Remediated the main and restored the stream at Valley Forge National Historical Park
- Rehabilitated an eroded section of the creek
- Minimized the potential for future erosion
- Restored the stream, ensuring the water main was covered and not visible to the public
Reserve Estimate, MidAtlantic Region
- Aided in designing and conducting an exploration program that included evaluation of 250,000 acres of land for mineral deposit potential and a mineral processing program
- Helped identify property on which mineral facilities could be built
- Prepared an Independent Geologist’s Report in accordance with relevant requirements of the Australian Stock Exchange
- One of largest commuter railroads in the United States
- Renovation of a 275,000-square-foot, 100-year-old maintenance yard and shop
- Planning, transit and rail and facilities design, and construction management
- Developed an independent estimate of recoverable crushed stone reserves for a large Mid-Atlantic region aggregate producer
- Estimated lateral 33-acre expansion of an existing quarry
- Conducted work in conjunction with quarry dewatering alternatives improvement
- Breakthrough technology that integrates real-time data collection, display, analyses, and computer control of grouting operation
- Enables sound engineering decisions to effectively accommodate geologic conditions
- Allows a project team to monitor critical information such as dam safety indicators during drilling and grouting activities and gauge the performance of foundation treatment
Providing Predictive Weather Analytics, Nationwide
Campus Square Office and Retail Building, Harrisburg, Pa.
International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc., Corporate Headquarters Renovations, New York, N.Y.
- Catastrophe risk-assessment applications
- Assist insurance carriers with portfolio management
- Agency, claims response, and underwriting benefits
- Analytics predict severe weather events to assess values and losses
- Developed by GeoDecisions and the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Transportation Engineering Agency
- Revolutionized the way the U.S. military managed, documents, and synchronizes the movement of global surface cargo transportation
- First-of-its-kind web-based transportation security and logistics geographic information system
- Four-story, 75,000-square-foot mixed-use building
- Designed to visually complement historic district buildings
- LEED® Gold certified
- Geothermal heating system and photovoltaic roof panels
- 100,000-square-foot renovation of four floors
- Included finishes, fixtures, and furniture of the creative studios
- Laboratories, kitchen, offices, and restrooms
Mosque Development, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Greater Richmond Transit Company, Bus Operations
and Maintenance Facility, Richmond, Va.
User-Friendly Maintenance & Scheduling Tools,
Pennsylvania Statewide
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport,
PHX Sky Train™ Design, Phoenix, Ariz.
Southwestern Yard Maintenance Facility,
Los Angeles, Calif.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Blue Line Extension, Dallas, Texas
Malaysia Water Management, Malaysia
Solana Generating Facility, Phoenix, Ariz.
Nuuanu Dam Phase I Investigations, Oahu, Hawaii
- GeoDecisions teamed with the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) to develop the Mosque Development Support System
- This application contains information on mosques throughout three major municipalities the UPC oversees
- UPC officials use the online tool to determine where new mosques should be located or if existing mosques should be expanded or relocated
- 4.8-mile light rail expansion
- Improves mobility in fast-growing Dallas area
- Expands service from existing last stop in Garland to a new station in Rowlett
- Provides a capacity of up to 30,000 passengers per day in each direction
Power and Arc Flash Studies, MidAtlantic Area, U.S.
- Planning, design, and construction assistance
- 250-bus maintenance and operating garage
- Accommodates standard length and articulated buses
- Site plans developed to take advantage of the island’s trade winds
- Major consideration given to minimizing night time operation noise and light impacts
- Integrates disparate transportation data into central GIS repository
- Data includes maintenance, highway, bridge inventory and condition, environment
- Temporal and spatial analysis
- User-friendly, Google Maps interface to manage assets
- 140,000-square-foot, $180 million facility
- Five maintenance bays, a two-level administration area, and a small shops area and control tower
- Designing to achieve LEED Silver certification
- Will service and store 70 light rail vehicles and include state-of-the-art track configuration and layout
- Provided facilities design and construction management services for the fixed facilities portion of the PHX Sky Train™, including stations and guideways
- Taxiway bridge is the first mass transit bridge in the world to be constructed over an active taxiway
- First LEED certified public transportation campus in the world
- GeoDecisions® partnered with Pengurusan Aset Air Berhad to build a web-based and mobile application that will serve as an executive dashboard for monitoring, analyzing, reporting, and managing all assets of a three-state pilot area in central Malaysia
- Project uses specific tools needed to move toward sustainable and efficient water management
- Retained by the State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources to perform Phase I Investigations on 16 regulatory dams
- Provided dam safety technical permit reviews
- Provided consulting services for revisions to State Rules and Regulations and State Guidelines for Inspection of Dams and Design and Construction of Dams
- World’s largest solar thermal power plant
- Features thermal storage-equipped parabolic trough technology with 280 megawatts of power output capacity and an expected annual output of 903,000 megawatt hours
- Gannett Fleming provided survey, mapping, geotechnical investigations, and American Land Title Association plans
- Gannett Fleming performed an electrical safety and electrical system analysis, power program studies, arc flash studies, and a training seminar for National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Muni Metro East Light Rail Vehicle Maintenance and Operations Facility, San Francisco, Calif.
Exelon Generation Company, LLC, Renewable Energy Education Center, Fairless Hills, Pa.
Interactive Mapping Technology, Stafford County, Va.
Reconstruction of New Jersey Route 18 and George Street Bridge,
New Brunswick, N.J.
Corridor Modernization,
San Francisco to San Jose, Calif.
Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Plant, Lebanon, Pa.
- Constructed on a 13-acre site, making it the most compact light rail vehicle site designed and constructed in the U.S. in more than 30 years
- 15 storage tracks for storing 80 modern light rail vehicles, with expansion capacity to 100, and an automated train control test track
- $1.5 billion modernization program
- Electrification of more than 50 miles
- Creation of a more modern railroad, boosting capacity, and reducing carbon footprint
- Engineering design services
- Converted old industrial office into visitor center
- Powered by 100 percent renewable energy
- LEED® Silver certified
- Hands-on exhibition area educates visitors on renewable energy
- Design-build
- A reliable and robust high-speed alert notification system designed to deliver phone, email, or text messages to utilities, businesses, municipalities, communities, and schools to approximately 120,000 water system customers per hour
- With its user-friendly, web-based and mobile interface, it has the ability to contact thousands of customers within minutes
Olivenhain Dam, San Diego, Calif.
- At groundbreaking, it was the largest public works project ever undertaken by the New Jersey Department of Transportation
- Bridge is first in the world to combine precast concrete arches with lightweight cellular concrete overfill
- First use of bolderscape
- Extensive streetscape elements and architectural features
- Esri Story Map platform technology with custom JavaScript
- Business and GIS data for property assessments and tax collection
- Web and mobile device recognition/responsiveness
- Asset and stormwater management solution
- Designed and managing construction of 8 million-gallons-per-day regional wastewater treatment facility
- Treatment process will reduce nitrogen loads to Chesapeake Bay and includes sludge drying system (SDS)
- SDS will reuse biogas as a fuel to improve plant biosolids process, reduce diesel fuel consumption and greenhouse gases, and benefit farmlands
- Reusing biogas will save the City of Lebanon Authority nearly $200,000 in annual energy recovery
Utility Equipment Upgrade, New Jersey
Knouse Foods Solar Project, Peach Glen, Pa.
- Provided preliminary and final design phase services and construction consultation
- 2,550-foot-long roller-compacted concrete (RCC) gravity dam
- Tallest RCC dam in North America
- Designed to withstand a magnitude 7.5 earthquake
- Set North American record for single-day placement of RCC dam at 16,057 cubic yards
- $5 million equipment upgrade and replacement project for PSE&G
- Gannett Fleming designed and installed 46 new 26 kilovolt circuit breakers at eight substations and modified control systems
- One of the first Pennsylvania projects to feature “megawatt-in-a-box” installations
- Provided design, procurement, installation, commissioning, operation, and maintenance
- 3.25 megawatt solar farm
- One of the largest solar farms in Pennsylvania, including more than 14,000 polycrystalline solar panels spanning the 32-acre facility
Regional Connector Light Rail Transit Corridor,
Los Angeles, Calif.
Intelligent Transportation System Design,
Northeastern Mexico Highways
Kentucky River Station II Water Treatment Plant,
Hardin’s Landing, Ky.
Interstate 10 advanced traveler information system, New Mexico
- On-call construction management support services
- Three new passenger stations on a 1.9-mile underground corridor
- Tunneling, cut-and-cover, and sequential excavation methods
Sounds of Transit
- ITS design strategic plan for Mexico’s federal-level Secretariat of Communications and Transport
- Benchmarking study, which includes an overview and analysis of ITS programs from the U.S., Canada, Chile, Colombia, South Korea, and Japan
- Demonstrates noise levels accurately
- Replicates transit modes at several distances from the source
- Simulates indoor and outdoor settings
- Engages the public and enables them to hear and see an accurate impression of transit alternatives
- Configured and deployed an advanced traveler information system and incident response system using ITS devices
- System can be used to disseminate all types of critical, time-sensitive information, such as news of natural disasters and AMBER alerts
- Designed new 20 million-gallons-per-day (mgd) plant, expandable to 30 mgd to meet consumer demand
- Used jet grouting to install 80-foot-deep raw water pump caisson
- Features elevated 42-inch raw water pipeline scaling 40-degree, 200-foot-high bluff
- A geographic information system application that provides a technology backbone to help electric utilities run their businesses more efficiently
- Provides a common platform to manage and maintain infrastructure, access customer and billing information, detect outages, manage vegetation growth around utility lines, manage assets, and integrate work orders
- Alleviates the time and frustration of consulting multiple systems and streamlines operational procedures