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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.