2000s
Renewal of Focus
With the new millennium came a name change to Pease Associates, in 2001, followed by the appointment of five new board members, from 2004-2006, as the firm prepared for its third transition of ownership. Mike Barnes, Rob Bernard, Joel Johnson, Gary Runions and Stuart Wallace joined the Board of Directors alongside President Don Garbrick, Executive Vice President John Duncan and Vice President Howard Neumann. With young leadership also came new design talent and a growing number of sustainable design specialists on staff.
Mission-critical design delivered telecommunications switch sites throughout the Southeast and most recently the 53,000 SF back-up data center for the State of North Carolina in 2007.
Higher education brought UNC Charlotte’s $120-million bond project, which included planning the program for five major buildings and the supporting infrastructure along with the design of the Woodward Hall Science and Technology Building, College of Health and Human Services and two regional utility plants. In 2005, the firm completed Appalachian State University’s 231,000 SF Belk Library and Information Commons. Current academic projects supporting Allied Health Services include the Western Piedmont Community College’s Health Science Building and Gaston College’s world-class Health Education Institute.
Civil Engineering entered the aviation market and continues to design roadway and aircraft hangar projects at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. Other Notable ‘firsts’ include the Southeast’s first Fenton sludge dewatering and drying system at the Long Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Albemarle, NC, followed by the installation of North Carolina’s first Cannibal™ solids reduction process at the Hamby Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Thomasville.
