Terracon is an employee-owned US engineering consulting firm with 8,000+ staff offering environmental, geotechnical, materials testing and facility engineering services.
Terracon Consultants Inc. is an employee-owned engineering consulting firm with more than 200 locations across the United States and over 8,000 engineers, scientists, and consultants. The firm is 100% employee-owned and states that it operates on principles of caring, excellence, and integrity. Its work spans the entire project lifecycle, from site selection and design through construction and asset management.
The firm's services fall into several technical domains: environmental consulting, geotechnical engineering, construction materials testing and facility engineering, alongside site selection and design, construction, asset management and data analytics. Environmental and geotechnical work supports above-ground and below-ground construction and development projects, while construction materials testing is aimed at quality assurance and risk minimisation throughout a build. Facility engineering supports asset management and project delivery.
Terracon serves clients in a range of sectors, including commercial, digital infrastructure, federal, healthcare, industrial and logistics, power generation and transmission, and transportation infrastructure. The firm describes a culture of innovation and curiosity, rewarding team members who bring new ideas, and says it combines proprietary data with decades of industry experience to help clients minimise risk and keep projects on track.
