2017 was a year of change as we completed our rebranding as an NV5 Company. We are very proud to be part of NV5, a multi-faceted engineering firm delivering infrastructure and energy solutions to customers around the world.
Our integration with NV5, manifest in the phrase “delivering solutions – improving lives,” provides continuity for us and our legacy of health and safety protection as Dade Moeller & Associates. We begin the year having completed more than 2.3 million safe work hours, and we will continue to ensure the safety of our employees and the people who work around us. Through 2018 and beyond, you can look for NV5 to expand the solutions we deliver and increase our focus on objectives that are important to our community.
Keeping our own family safe is just part of NV5’s mission to improve the lives of our customers, associates and neighbors. Over the course of 2017, we successfully expanded our safety and environmental services to include many more firms throughout the Northwest, and we are grateful for the trust that all our clients place in us to fill such a crucial role.
Our industrial hygienists and safety professionals provide hands-on expertise to regional businesses, in addition to supporting complex and high-hazard projects at Hanford and across the country.
Helping to ensure worker safety and environmental health at the Hanford Site, as we have done since 1994, remains a significant focus. NV5 will continue to provide essential operational safety and environmental support to the Hanford prime contractors and their subcontractors, while we serve commercial firms doing business elsewhere in our region and throughout the Northwest.
Safety and progress are inseparable, and that is why NV5 will continue to advocate our safety values in the community during 2018, as we did in 2017 at Safety Connect, Connect Tri Cities, STEM classrooms and other public venues.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Energy announced its acquisition plans for the next 10 years; they are ambitious and will result in significant changes and opportunities for the Tri-Cities. Our community will grow and evolve in response, just as it always has.
A critical element of the community’s response will be to foster a robust and renewable local workforce. We will need both old and new skills and competencies, and it will be up to us to discover, develop and deliver needed talent. Success of the Hanford cleanup depends on this, and it will also fuel our regional economic engine, which continues to produce consistent growth and diversification.
During the coming year, NV5 will actively promote development of our future workforce. One way NV5 is already helping is through increased support for scholarships at Columbia Basin College. In 2018, NV5 is funding one 4-year and two 2-year scholarships for deserving students pursuing degrees in STEM and radiation safety-related programs at CBC. NV5 employees will again participate in Junior Achievement, support the Mid-Columbia STEM Network, and contribute personal time to help encourage lasting connections with our local youth.
As a member of the Tri-Cities Local Business Association, the Tri-City Development Council, and the Regional Chamber of Commerce, we also understand the value of and will strongly contribute to business-wide collaboration in this community.
In the coming year, NV5 expects to work more closely than ever with all our business and social partners. We look forward to helping the Tri-Cities advance the Hanford cleanup, grow our regional economy, and sustain the community we call home.
This story was originally published April 01, 2018 4:07 PM.