Parametrix
Parametrix is a 100-percent employee-owned firm dedicated to providing quality planning, engineering, and environmental sciences with superior client service. Founded in 1969, Parametrix has offices across the western United States and over 550 professionals. Environmental risk means different things to different people. At Parametrix, we understand how to assess, control, and manage environmental risks. Our scientists and engineers work on the cutting edge of environmental assessment, cleanup, and waste management. From planning and implementing solid waste management programs and siting and designing new solid waste, recycling, and composting facilities to providing creative solutions to hazardous waste, remediation, and brownfield opportunities, Parametrix is knowledgeable in all facets of solid and hazardous waste management. We understand the regulations that drive and affect remediation.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Engineering service provider
- Industry Type:
- Environmental
- Market Focus:
- Nationally (across the country)
- Year Founded:
- 1969
- Employees:
- 101-1000
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
Parametrix helps our clients deliver some of their most significant projects. Whether it’s improving our region’s infrastructure, restoring natural habitat, or designing a vision for the future, people depend on us for innovative ideas - engineering, planning, and environmental solutions that make a positive, lasting difference.
From offices throughout the western United States, we provide multidisciplinary services in transportation, environmental planning and compliance, water resources, and community building. As a 100-percent employee-owned firm, our people have a vested interest in strong performance and exceptional client service. Individually and as a team, we are committed to providing high quality, cost-effective solutions that enable our clients to make informed decisions.
History
Parametrix was founded in 1969 by Waite Dalrymple and George Capestany as Delta Engineering. Originally focused on the wastewater business, the firm grew quickly and diversified into six very different business divisions. In 1974, two of the divisions, Delta Engineering and Seattle Marine Laboratories were restructured as Parametrix. With strength in both engineering and science, Parametrix became known as the premier firm for solid waste and city engineering in Washington. Continued steady growth led to expansion into Oregon in 1989 with the opening of our Portland office which specialized in solid waste and environmental remediation to start. One of the office’s first projects was the St. Johns Landfill closure.
In the early 1990s, the owners began considering transition options, and determined that becoming an ESOP would allow the company’s culture to remain intact and provide a secure future for the employees and their families. Parametrix was established as an ESOP in 1992, and through regular sales of the owners' stock to the ESOP trust, became 100 percent employee owned in 1999. Parametrix embraced employee ownership and in 2001 was named the “Employee-owned Company of the Year” by the National ESOP Association.
Parametrix diversified into the transportation business in the early 1990s with the development of the master plan for the Washington Coastal Corridor Scenic Byway along US 101. In 2001, Parametrix expanded into New Mexico with the opening of our Albuquerque office, focusing on tribal and natural resource services in the Southwest. Expansion continued in 2003 when our Boise office opened, focused on transportation. In 2008, we acquired Taschek Environmental Consulting in New Mexico expanding into the cultural resources business. Today, Parametrix serves clients throughout the western United States from offices in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and New Mexico.