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CHATTANOOGA, TN (MAY 13, 2013) LEA has been selected by the City of Chattanooga to assist them in meeting the mandates of their recent Consent Decree by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their combined sanitary sewer system.  LEA was awarded the management of a Sanitary Sewer Evaluation Study (SSES) of the South Chickamauga Sub Basin 1.  These SSES activities include conducting over 380 manhole inspections and the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) and/or Sonar inspection of over 80,000 LF of sanitary sewer pipelins ranging between 8-inches and 84-inches in diameter. …

ORLANDO, FL (May 10, 2013)  LEA has been selected by HNTB Architects and the City of Orlando to provide Landscape Architectural Design for the $175 million dollar renovation to the Florida Citrus Bowl.  With this long awaited renovation of this 76 year old stadium, the City of Orlando hopes the time will be right for them to host a national championship game or one of the new playoff games recently announced.  The renovations to the 65,000 seat stadium will include complete replacement of the lower bowl, addition of 8,000…

ORLANDO, FL (May 10, 2013) The Orlando office of Littlejohn Engineering Associates is part of the design team recently awarded the first planning project to be undertaken under a new Florida growth management law.  The Wellness Way Sector Plan is a 15,000 acre rural area in South Lake County, west of Orlando and adjacent to Disney World.  The County and key stakeholders in the area envision this area to be a major employment center for Central Florida in the future, anchored by compact, dense urban growth centers and surrounded by the rural, rolling hills…

FLORIDA (May 10, 2013) The City of Melbourne Historic Preservation Board (HPB) has invited Eddie Browder, ASLA of Littlejohn Engineering Associates to lecture at their third "Historic Preservation Board Quarterly Lecture Series" on Tuesday May 21^st at 5:30 PM EDT.  The event coincides with National Preservation Month.  The lecture is titled "Melbourne's Lost Treasures" and will honor buildings that have vanished from the local landscape.

According to the HPB, the presentation will “…look at some of the key…

NASHVILLE, TN (May 10, 2013)  Jim Littlejohn, President and CEO of Littlejohn Engineering Associates was recognized by the Nashville Business Journal in a Special “Power Leaders” edition on May 3rd. Jim is one of 37 featured leaders from the Nashville area construction, architecture and engineering industries.  Jim was asked to give his view on the current state of the economy in Nashville and nationally, as well as identify key signature projects, and identify his favorite vacation spot.   

The NBJ selected the Power Leaders  from a pool of  candidates from Nashville's…

ORLANDO, FL (May 8, 2013) – Littlejohn Engineering Associates, inc. (LEA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Maxwell D. Spann, PLA, ASLA as Landscape Architect to our Orlando office.  Mr. Spann has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University.  Prior joining Littlejohn Engineering Associates, Mr. Spann’s background includes master planned and mixed-use developments, comprehensive plan amendments, municipal ordinance review and development, development agreements, community amenity design, public and private design charette facilitation, grant discovery…

ORLANDO, FL (May 8, 2013) – Littlejohn Engineering Associates, inc. (LEA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Benjamin B. Ellis, PE as Project Engineer to our Orlando office.  Mr. Ellis has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida.  Prior joining Littlejohn Engineering Associates, Mr. Ellis managed and designed numerous residential and non-residential land development projects, and has been responsible for roadway, master utility and stormwater designs in the Central Florida area.  Mr. Ellis has facilitated project permitting through city…

PHOENIX, AZ (May 8, 2013) Littlejohn Engineering Associates (LEA) is excited to announce the addition of Thomas Lavalette, RLS as Southwest Survey Manager in our Phoenix office. Tom has been surveying for over 25 years, most recently as the Vice President of Surveying for Engineering Alliance, Inc. During the last 19 years, he provided civil surveying and construction staking services on over 500 projects throughout the state of Arizona.

Tom’s experience includes ALTAs, boundary surveys, topographic…

NASHVILLE, TN (May 3, 2013) The Spring 2013 edition of Learning by Design awarded Nashville-based architect Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. (ESa) a Citation of Excellence in the Renovation/Adaptive Reuse/Restoration for the Belmont University – McAfee Concert Hall.  As part of the design team, Littlejohn Engineering Associates provided site layout, and offsite utility infrastructure improvements for the project.

Learning By Design showcases innovative school and university design projects throughout the country. The McAfee Concert…

Compass Datacenters recently completed its first of several planned standalone facilities in record time.  The 21,000 sq. ft. Tier III facility, located in Franklin, Tennessee, was completed in six months rather than the normal one to two year timeframe.  Compass Datacenters credits the rapid success to its use of its patent pending Truly Modular™ Architecture as well as good design practices and responsive service of its team members.  The LEED Gold certified…