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BizVoice/Indiana Chamber – May/June 2017

GETTING TO KNOW

“Over the last three years, we

were heavily focused on inward

growth – team building,

company culture, professional

development and setting the

foundation of our internal team

for that next step in leadership.

... Our next three years focus

on aggressive regional and

national growth within our

market and service sectors.”

– Neil Myers, principal

By Matt Ottinger

Williams Creek Consulting

FEELING THE FLOW

Members of the Williams Creek team

install native plants at Zionsville’s

Creekside Corporate Park, which features

green infrastructure elements as part of its

campus design.

Watermarks

• Ecological engineering and natural resource

construction firm

• Founded in 2002

• Focused on Clean Water Act and sustainable

water resource management

• Disciplines: civil engineering, urban design,

landscape architecture, physical sciences

(biology, botany, wildlife ecology) and

construction management

• Staff of 38; in process of filling several positions

On the map

• Name is homage to Williams Creek

watershed in Indianapolis

• Headquarters office: downtown Indianapolis

• Implementation headquarters: Plainfield

• Regional offices: Cincinnati, Columbus

(Ohio) and St. Louis

• Expects growth of 25% over the next three

years

Big clients

Duke Realty Group, Parkview Health System,

American Electric Power, City of Lafayette

Emerging clients

Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater

Cincinnati, Great Rivers Greenway (Missouri),

Washington University (St. Louis)

Industry challenges

• Changing regulations

• Finding and hiring quality personnel

“There are always challenges, but in Indiana we

don’t peak and valley as much as other parts of the

country, so that provides us a good fiscal foundation

to be optimistic and aggressive on growth.”

Culture

Involved with 25 ecology/water/sustainability-

focused non-profits and supports other charities

in the community.

“From an ownership perspective, we work hard

to give every team member the tools needed to

succeed. We try to compete with the best

working conditions, culture and benefits, and

try to be flexible – people have lives outside of

work and things come up. We look at each

other as people, not individual numbers.”

David Marks, Nilesh Shringarpure and Jim

Rinehart collaborate on a project. Williams

Creek prides itself on an integrated design

approach, which allows engineers,

landscape architects, biologists and other

team members to interact at all stages.