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EAST SYRACUSE - Honing its areas of expertise has helped ENSR AECOM's New York practice grow, says Joseph S. Campisi, manager for the environmental consulting, engineering, and remediation firm's New York State operations.
"We've spun off some of the non-core businesses," he says. "Now we've grown in the last three years."
ENSR AECOM's Syracuse office dates back to 1970 when it was an engineering firm named Galson Laboratories. In 1994, Galson employees Michael Lorenz and Lee Davis bought the company from its founders, and sold it off in two pieces. In 1998, Westford, Mass.-based environmental-engineering firm ENSR International purchased Galson's engineering operation. One of Galson's senior vice presidents, F. Joseph Unangst, acquired the firm's laboratory operations.
At the time of the ENSR acquisition, the engineering firm experienced a "mass exodus," Campisi says. About 12 scientists from the firm's air-measurements practice went to O'Brien & Gere. Today, ENSR serves its airmeasurements clients from its Boston-area headquarters, where about 40 to 50 employees specialize in this practice area.
Since the ENSR International buyout in 1998, the firm has grown from about 30 employees to about 40 employees Upstate, all...