MECO Engineering

Hanson Professional Services is an employee-owned consulting firm that specializes in providing architecture, engineering, scientific and program management services to clients around the world. From design to construction, Hanson focuses on each stage of a project and each client s goals, budgets and timelines. In addition, more than half of its $44 million annual revenue is generated from transportation-related projects. These projects include highway and bridge design, traffic planning and airport development. And while transportation is an important part of its business, the company also focuses on designing a variety of buildings and facilities, including offices and industrial complexes, schools and universities, communications and electronic facilities and radio broadcast stations.

Benton & Associates, founded in 1970, is a civil engineering consulting firm providing civil engineering and land surveying services for public and private clients in Illinois and Missouri. The company, based in Jacksonville, Ill., engages in multidiscipline engineering projects with a broad range of clients. It offers complete civil, structural and environmental engineering services, including water supply, treatment and distribution systems, wastewater collection and treatment, industrial waste treatment and solid waste management. Benton also provides traffic analysis and control systems for airports, bridges, buildings, streets and highways. In the municipal engineering area, it offers storm drainage systems, flood control pumping systems and structures, residential and commercial subdivisions, industrial park development, parks and recreational facilities, construction observation and land surveying, including topographic, property and construction.