Over its 40-year history, March Adams & Associates Inc. has put its imprint across the country with its diverse engineering analysis and design on thousands of commercial and industrial building projects in more than 40 states.
In its hometown where most of its work is done, the Chattanooga engineering company has done some type of engineering work on most of the major buildings erected or renovated downtown and across the city in recent decades.
“We try to maintain a balance between both commercial and industrial projects,” said Jeff Westbrook, a mechanical engineer who joined March Adams in 2002 and is now the company president. “It’s hard to name a building we have not been a part of in some way,”
In an interview at the company’s Dodds Avenue office, Westbrook and Michael Hutcherson, the company’s chief financial officer, said March Adams is typically involved in 300 to 400 projects a year. Their engineering work ranges from preparing a building assessment to doing all of the engineering work for a major $500,000-square-foot plant or warehouse building.
“Every month, we’re working on a different set of buildings and we’re having to look at different aspects of our design for what we do,” Westbrook said. “It’s constantly changing and that’s what makes it interesting and challenging.”