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History
Black & Veatch was formed in 1915 when Ernest Bateman (E.B.) Black dissolved his partnership with J.S. Worley and created a new firm with Nathan Thomas Veatch. Black and Veatch met while attending the University of Kansas.[1]
Company timeline
1915 Ernest Bateman Black and Nathan Thomas Veatch form a partnership called Black & Veatch with 12 employees on the payroll.
1940 The War Department requests that Black & Veatch rebuild Camp Robinson in Little Rock, Arkansas. Other camp projects include Camp Chaffee in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Camp Hale in Pando, Colorado, and other military installations in the Midwest.
1948 Work begins for the Atomic Energy Commission at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
1950 N.T. Veatch is appointed by President Harry Truman to the President's Water Pollution Control Advisory Board.
1963 Black & Veatch International is formed.
1964 Black & Veatch opens its first regional office in Denver, CO to design a 100 million gallon per day water treatment plant by the Denver Water Board of Colorado.
1967 Black & Veatch wins a contract to produce a 60-megawatt power generating unit for Yanhee Electricity Authority of Thailand, now known as EGAT, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand.
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1976 Black & Veatch opens new building at 11401 Lamar Avenue in Overland Park, Kansas.
1985 Black & Veatch acquires Pritchard Corporation and its PRICO liquefaction technology.
1988 Black & Veatch power division introduces a new computer-aided engineering and project management system called POWRTRAK to be more time efficient and capture new business.
1996 Black & Veatch expands building at 11401 Lamar Avenue.
1999 Black & Veatch changes company structure from general partnership to an employee-owned corporation.
2009 Black & Veatch repurchases 11401 Lamar Avenue office building in Overland Park, Kansas, and establishes the location as the company's World Headquarters.
2013 Steve Edwards assumes role as Black & Veatch Chairman, President, and CEO.
2015 Black & Veatch celebrates its 100th anniversary.
2017 Black & Veatch forms Diode Ventures, LLC, "a land use developer that takes the complexity out of preparing infrastructure for the digital future."
2018 Black & Veatch and the University of Missouri release a report on the Missouri Hyperloop
2020 Black & Veatch announces it is ceasing participation in new coal-based design and construction projects in an attempt to focus on more renewable energy work.
2021 The Europe and Asian water businesses of Black & Veatch are acquired by RSK Group and renamed Binnies.
2022 Mario Azar succeeds the retiring Steve Edwards as Chairman & CEO
2023 Black & Veatch acquires Texas-based electrical contractor and storm restoration expert Bird Electric Enterprises, LLC, adding 600 employees in the process.
2023 Black & Veatch completes charging depot for Schneider National to its power zero-emissions fleet.
2024 Black & Veatch establishes a global Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity practice to protect critical infrastructure assets from hackers and cybercriminals
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