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Congratulations to Drew Gagnon, EI for completing the NorthEast Transportation Training and Certification Program (NETTCP).  Drew now joins Doug Reynolds, Owen Chaplin and Asher Anderson, all of Gorrill Palmer, as certified Hot Mix Asphalt Paving Inspectors.

The certification program tests applicants on various relevant subject matter including Quality Assurance, Materials and HMA Mixtures, Surface Preparation, Mixture Delivery and Placement, Temperature Measurements, Sampling, and Troubleshooting.

NETTCP was created in 1995 by the six New England States to implement a technician certification program, in coordination with the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Aviation Administration to ensure there was consistency in technical areas including hot mix asphalt, soils and aggregate and concrete.

 

Gorrill Palmer is pleased to welcome Dan Bacon to our team as Planning Project Manager. Dan has more than fifteen years of planning, transportation and development experience and comes to us most recently as the Planning Director of Scarborough, Maine where he served as an important member of the Town’s leadership team for ten years. As the Director, he oversaw land use and transportation planning, engineering, development review, zoning administration and code enforcement, and related services.  He was active in implementing the Town’s Comprehensive Plan and modernizing the Town’s approach to growth and development.

The addition of Dan to our Team will allow us to enhance and expand our services including:

• Land Use Planning & Analysis
• Zoning & Code Assistance
• Master Planning
• Transportation Planning
• Multi-Modal Transportation Design
• Development & Permitting Assistance
• Fiscal Analysis & Impact Fee Services
• Adaptation & Resiliency Planning
• Natural Resource Planning
• Community Outreach & Public Involvement
• Community Development  & Revitalization Initiatives
• Grant Application Preparation
• Public/Private Development Planning
• Mapping & GIS Services

The addition of Dan to our team greatly increases our capacity to serve our clients and expand our highly qualified team of professionals.  We are excited to welcome Dan to our group.  To read more about Dan and his former position, click here.

 

Gorrill Palmer is pleased to welcome Lucas Anthony to the team as a Land Development Project Manager. Lucas has twenty years of engineering and project management experience for private clients, including design of utility infrastructure, roadway, parking and stormwater elements for large scale retail projects.

Originally from Maine, and a Civil Engineering graduate of the University of Maine, Lucas is returning home from a lengthy career in Florida with prestigious design and engineering firms with extensive land development and construction management expertise.

Lucas joins us from Bowman Consulting and Kimley-Horn and Associates. He is also a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

A Professional Engineer, he brings twenty years of experience to the company, specializing in feasibility analysis of acquisition, and the design and engineering through conceptual design to grand openings. The addition of Lucas to our Land Development Group greatly increases our capacity to serve our clients and expand our highly qualified team of professionals.

It has always been an important part of the Gorrill Palmer culture to attract and retain talented individuals to work on our team. One way we do this, and insure our high level of service to our clients and partners, is offer opportunities to students and graduates seeking opportunities for on-the-job learning.

We are pleased to announce that Timothy Storey, currently studying Civil engineering at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston will be joining our team later in January. Timothy is interested in working in the municipal and land use planning field upon graduation in 2018.

He has worked in the field with his family company since 2005 and is currently a member of the American Society of Civil Engineering.  We are excited to welcome Timothy to our growing team.

Gorrill Palmer, The City of Waterville’s traffic consultants, presented their findings in a traffic study that identifies options for making downtown more inviting and pedestrian friendly. The scenarios and solutions presented in the report will invite customers to local shops, restaurants, cultural venues and businesses that are Waterville’s lifeblood.

To read more about Gorrill Palmers involvement with this important project and their suggested solutions, click here to read the full article.

Gorrill Palmer’s final traffic study report has been made public on the City’s website and can be found by clicking here.

In the spring of 2017, The Cliff House Hotel will be transformed into one of Maine’s most beautiful and luxurious places to visit on the southern coast.

Gorrill Palmer has been working with the owner’s and developers of the project since the idea of improvements were in the earliest stages nearly two decades ago.

The Cliff House permitted a Master Plan in 2000 to modernize the facility into one of the premier resorts in Maine. Gorrill Palmer was originally hired to prepare the traffic study for the original Master Plan working with the architect.  In 2014, a new ownership group purchased the property and retained Gorrill Palmer to prepare an updated traffic study, site design and lead the permitting effort.