Between October and December of 2007, EBJ solicited the environmental industry via e-mail, web site, and word-of-mouth for nominations for the annual EBJ Business Achievement Awards. Nominations were accepted in 200-word essays in either specific or unspecified categories. Pennoni received recognition in the C&E Firm: New Practice Area Category.

Serving the uranium mining industry, Pennoni Associates received recognition for its increased revenue of $2 million exclusively in the new growth area, repeat business and multi-year contracts, an increase in training for staff involved in uranium projects, and expansion into new geographical markets. Pennoni has also successfully developed substantial expertise in uranium mining and milling techniques as part of promoting nuclear power as a key alternative to fossil-fuel energy dependence. Through this effort, Pennoni has expanded its technology and is currently supporting mining and milling projects in New Mexico, Wyoming and South America.

The Zweig Letter has recognized Pennoni Associates as one of the 200 fastest-growing architecture, engineering and construction consulting firms in North America. The “Hot Firm 2008” list is based on a weighted average of each firm’s dollar growth and percentage growth from 2004 to 2007. Pennoni was ranked as number 89.

The Zweig Letter is a weekly newsletter providing management advice for consulting firms in the engineering and construction industry. It is published by ZweigWhite, Inc., a leading source of management consulting, information, and education for the design and construction industry.

ZweigWhite is the nation's leading source of management consulting, information, and education for the design and construction industry. ZweigWhite brings together experts in strategic business planning, organization, operations, business valuation, ownership transition, human resources, recruitment, finance and administration, information technology, mergers and acquisitions, market research, marketing, project management and project delivery methods.

The Zweig Letter has listed Pennoni Associates as one of the 200 fastest-growing architecture, engineering and construction consulting firms in North America. This year, Pennoni ranks as #90.

The “Hot Firm 2009” list is based on a weighted average of each firm’s dollar growth and percentage growth from 2005 to 2008. This honor marks Pennoni’s third consecutive year as a “Hot Firm”. The Zweig Letter is a weekly newsletter providing management advice for consulting firms in the engineering and construction industry. Published by ZweigWhite, Inc., the newsletter is a leading source of management consulting, information, and education for the design and construction industry.

ZweigWhite is the nation's leading source of management consulting, information, and education for the design and construction industry. ZweigWhite brings together experts in strategic business planning, organization, operations, business valuation, ownership transition, human resources, recruitment, finance and administration, information technology, mergers and acquisitions, market research, marketing, project management and project delivery methods.

Management consulting and research firm Zweig White Information Services has identified the 200 fastest-growing U.S. architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting firms for its annual ranking, The Zweig Letter Hot Firm List. This annual list features the design and environmental firms that have outperformed the economy and competitors to become industry leaders. This year, Pennoni Associates was ranked number 101.

Mark Zweig, founder and director of ZweigWhite, says, "The firms that made this year's Hot Firm List should be proud. Even with the increase of 100 firms on the list to 200, it was still an incredibly competitive and successful group. Firms that commit to revenue growth while investing in marketing, information technology, and other infrastructure are usually the most successful in our industry. They have shown they have the ability to sustain their success, year after year. The hottest firms in the business—those with consistent growth and success at outperforming the economy and their peers—are the ones that attract top staff and the best clients."

The Zweig Letter 2007 Hot Firm List is based solely on gross revenue for both fiscal year 2003 and fiscal year 2006. Firms were ranked from first to last based on percentage growth and dollar growth. Dollar growth and percentage growth were weighted equally. Each firm's two rankings were added together, and the 200 firms with the lowest combined rankings comprise the list.

Pennoni has been ranked as #190 on the Engineering News Record’s (ENR) list of the Top 200 Environmental Firms. Pennoni’s Environmental services make up 20% of its total gross revenue, focusing on commercial development and construction, industrial compliance and regulatory affairs, and alternative energy sources.

ENR, a publication of McGraw-Hill, published the list in its June/July 2008 issue. This annual listing ranks the top 200 firms that profit from sustainability and resource cleanup, protection and reuse. The 16 page report includes tables showing the most vigorous markets and the top firms in all environmental fields, design/consulting studies, construction remediation, hazardous waste, nuclear waste, water treatment/supply, waste/storm water treatment, air-pollution control, environmental management and environmental sciences.
 

The demand for a work environment that is free of recognized hazards has generated the need for Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health and Safety services. Protecting employees in the workplace has created unique and significant challenges for employers and building owners.  Pennoni's Environmental Technology maintains a specialized group of personnel trained and experienced in Industrial Hygiene who can provide cost effective and comprehensive solutions to satisfy employee and regulatory demands.

Under the leadership of a Certified Industrial Hygienist, our project team implements state-of-the-art technology while asserting our experiences and knowledge to address today's industrial hygiene issues such as worker exposure assessments, health and safety compliance, asbestos management, lead-based paint testing, and indoor air quality investigations.

Working together with Pennoni's other technologies including MEP, Structural, Municipal, and Environmental Engineering, our Industrial Hygiene group has developed a strategy and established a synergy among its team members in order to provide clients with a user-friendly, multi-disciplined firm capable of handling a variety of projects in-house and in a technically competent, cost-effective, and timely manner.
 

Industrial Facilities, in the broad sense, encompasses all companies that produce products for internal use or commercial sale.  This includes diverse industry sectors such as Chemical, FDA/USDA regulated industries, Mining and Minerals, Petroleum/Petrochemical, Oil and Natural Gas Production, Power and many more.  Each industry sector has its own unique process, design engineering requirements, environmental and infrastructure needs.  The key challenge is to be able to tailor a project to include any number of services that will meet the unique requirements of individual industry sector.

In order to meet this challenge, Pennoni Associates has assembled a team with various skill sets to address most of the needs of the diverse industrial manufacturing market.  From site plan development to infrastructure design, environmental impact and permitting for new facilities to plant process audits, facility upgrade designs and implementation, design and upgrade of existing process water and wastewater treatment systems, as well as all areas of industrial environmental services, Pennoni has demonstrated the unique ability to tailor their service package to our clients’ custom needs.
 

Pennoni Associates’ professionals have designed and permitted new and expanded industrial wastewater treatment facilities as well as provided construction oversight, start-up assistance, and operation support. Projects have ranged in size and complexity from small package treatment plants to larger industrial facilities requiring special treatment technologies.

Pennoni’s experience includes treatment of groundwater, industrial discharges, and solid waste leachate using a wide variety of treatment processes. These processes include aerobic and anaerobic bioreactors, treatment wetlands, bioremediation, air stripping, ion exchange, pH adjustment, precipitation, adsorption, filter press and centrifuge dewatering, clarification and sedimentation, dissolved air flotation, and others.
 

Pennoni Associates’ industrial site remediation and compliance experience covers the vast range of services needed by chemical, pharmaceutical, and raw materials processing plants to maintain compliance with the latest USEPA or state agency requirements. 

Compliance-related services include Indoor air quality monitoring, Tier 2 and SARA Title 3 reporting, SPCC Plan updates, air and stormwater permitting, routine groundwater monitoring, monthly DMR sampling and reporting.

Operational services include process audits, chemical tracking and mass balance calculation, emissions control, hazardous materials surveys, utilities and infrastructure design, UST management and remediation. 

As your preferred environmental consultant, Pennoni will help to resolve your environmental compliance issues in a typical engineer-procure-contract relationship or on a turnkey design-build relationship to suit your corporation’s contracting preference.  We understand production and we do our best to avoid all interruptions to existing plant operations.  Our expert scientists, engineers and technicians routinely help our clients stay in compliance with operating, reporting and environmental permits, as well as assisting them to improve operations while controlling costs of production.
 

The Federal Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), were created in order to ensure that food, beverages, meats, poultry, fish, dairy products, drugs and medical devices are consistently produced at a high quality level and safely delivered to the populace.

The FDA is responsible for ensuring that foods are safe, wholesome and sanitary, that human and veterinary drugs, biological products and medical devices are safe and effective, that cosmetics are safe, and that electronic products that emit radiation are safe.

The USDA has the responsibility of ensuring agriculturally produced foods, meats, poultry and egg product safety by implementing steps to reduce the prevalence of food-borne hazards from farm to table.   

A critical part of the responsibilities of these agencies is to develop, implement and police current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) standards.  This involves accountability and documentation at all levels of the manufacturing process from engineering of manufacturing facilities, handling and approval of raw materials, operation of the manufacturing processes and packaging and delivery to the final users.  Both agencies have the power of product rejection and recall based on well defined quality standards.  In many ways both agencies work cooperatively to ensure the common health.

Pennoni Associates, in partnership with industry experts, provides the engineering and process expertise to assist facilities in addressing and consistently meeting the stringent requirements of these agencies. Our areas of focus include, but are not limited to:

• Drugs and Biologics
• Medical Devices
• Food and Beverage

   

Andrew J. Pennoni, PE, serves as a Vice President and the Principal-in-Charge of our Construction Services Technology.  He is responsible for the growth and overall quality of our Construction Services. Andrew joined Pennoni Associates in 1994 and has more than 20 years of engineering experience that includes construction inspection, materials inspection, materials testing, design and construction management.  Andrew obtained a dual degree in Civil Engineering and Architectural Engineering from Drexel University, and an MBA from St. Joseph’s University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in several states and has obtained multiple industry certifications and training from the American Welding Society, the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, the Prestressed Concrete Institute, the American Concrete Institute and the International Code Council.

In addition to his role at Pennoni Associates, Andrew serves on multiple committees/advisory councils for Drexel University, including the College of Engineering, the Construction Management Department and the Athletics Department.  Andrew is also an active member on multiple committees for the American Council of Engineering Companies, a member of the American Institute of Steel Constructors, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Welding Society, and the Prestressed Concrete Institute, and has participated actively on multiple quality committees with various Departments of Transportation for over ten years.

David G. Pennoni, PE, serves as Vice President and is Principal-in-Charge of Municipal Engineering. Dave is responsible for overseeing the firm’s numerous municipal and authority appointments, as well as the water/wastewater services. Dave has extensive experience in municipal engineering and public works projects involving planning, design, permitting, construction coordination and inspection, contract administration, contractor compliance and regulatory agency documentation. His project experience includes infrastructure design, stormwater management, water and wastewater facilities, sewage facilities planning, traffic planning, and roadway and bridge systems. Dave joined Pennoni Associates in 1989. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, and a Civil Engineering graduate of Lehigh University.

Edward J. Sander, PE, serves as Vice President for Construction Services, and is Principal-in-Charge of Geotechnical Engineering.  Ed’s expertise is in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, management and quality control on such projects as hi-rise office buildings, waste processing plants, cement plants, schools, churches, petrochemical facilities, regional shopping centers, marine facilities, bridges and highways, and other private/public projects.  He has been responsible for all phases of geotechnical work including project management, coordination of various phases of projects, supervision of field, laboratory and engineering personnel, analysis, report preparation, consultation and construction monitoring and testing. He possesses extensive experience with design, subsurface stabilization and construction in karst areas. Ed joined Pennoni Associates in 1999, and earned a BS in Civil Engineering and an MS in Geotechnical Engineering from Drexel University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

William J. Bryant, PE, serves as Office Principal for West Chester, PA. Bill is responsible for the management, growth and success of the West Chester office. Bill joined Pennoni Associates in 2005 and is expert in all facets of site and project design for both public and private sector clients. Bill earned a dual BS in Commerce and Engineering and Civil Engineering from Drexel University, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania.

Bill is a member of American Society of Civil Engineers, a current member and Past President of the American Public Works Association Southeast PA Chapter, and the American Legion.

Craig St. Peter, PE, serves as Associate Vice President and Office Principal for Pennoni’s New England Operations, with offices in Andover, MA and Salem, NH.  Craig is responsible for overseeing the growth and success of business in the New England practice. Craig joined Pennoni Associates in 2001 and has substantial experience in consulting, planning, design/engineering and construction as a manager and registered professional civil engineer on both public and private projects.  He also has a broad range of knowledge and experience in project management, business development, contract preparation/negotiations and cost estimating.  Craig earned his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Maine, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.