Company Profile
GRW Engineers, Inc.
Company Overview
GRW is a full-service engineering, architectural, and geospatial consulting firm. The company was founded in 1964 by Mr. G. Reynolds Watkins to provide engineering services to federal, state, municipal and private industry clients. Since that time, GRW has grown to become a national design firm with offices in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee and West Virginia. Watkins' insistence on technical excellence and personal service lives on as the guiding principle at GRW. This dedication to service has resulted in repeat clients providing 90 percent of GRW's current workload!
Company History
Since 1964, GRW has been helping clients in the public and private sectors to plan, design and implement high-performance solutions that provide the best value and outcome for your project. As a full-service firm of approximately 230 engineers, architects, landscape architects and geospatial specialists, our experience and unique customer insights result in award-winning, highly functional projects.
1964 Company founded by Mr. G. Reynolds Watkins (G. Reynolds Watkins Consulting Engineers), Lexington, KY
1967 Death of G. Reynolds Watkins. Lyle F. Wolf named GRW President
1974 Opened office in Louisville, KY
1975 Acquired Aero Metrics International, Inc., photographic surveying and mapping firm, Lexington, KY
1976 Subsidiary GRW Aerial Surveys, Inc. formed
1977 Acquired Leggett and Irvan, structural design firm, Lexington, KY
1980 Company name changed to GRW Engineers, Inc.
1984 Acquired Robert S. Miller Co., sanitary engineering firm, Nashville, TN
1991 Ron D. Gilkerson named GRW President
1992 Opened office in Indianapolis, IN
1998 Opened office in Ft. Mitchell, KY
2001 Acquired Elrod-Dunson, Inc., sanitary engineering firm, Nashville/Knoxville, TN
2006 Acquired Lyle Associates Architects, Inc., architectural design firm, Lexington, KY
2007 Opened office in Columbus, OH
2007 Opened office in New Albany, IN
2013 Acquired Chapman Technical Group, multidiscipline firm, St. Albans, Buckhannon and Martinsburg, WV
2016 Brad Montgomery named GRW President
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
While our revenues have earned us an Engineering News-Record Top 500 ranking since 1972, what keeps us on top is our quality of service. Our approach is simple. Our corporate culture is one of close collaboration among our multidisciplinary project teams, combined with strong management leadership. Regardless of size or complexity, we leverage our unique insight and perspective to move projects forward in a timely and cost-effective manner, while facilitating clear and open lines of communication. We are also proud of GRW's large amount of repeat business. For example, since 1964 GRW has provided services to one of our very first clients, Keeneland, a combination Thoroughbred race course and sales company located in the heart of Kentucky's famed Bluegrass Region. The quality of our work is demonstrated in the numerous awards our projects have won, both on national and state levels.
Benefits
GRW Engineers, Inc. is an employee-owned firm.