Science and technology in Overland Park, KS

Founded in 1956, Olsson Associates is an employee-owned engineering and consulting firm. With a location in Overland Park, Kan., it maintains more than 15 offices throughout the United States. The firm provides construction administration, planning, design, inspection, automation and technology, land development and traffic engineering services. Olsson Associates offers landscape architecture, urban and water resource planning, construction management, wastewater treatment and geotechnical services. Its environmental services include geographic information systems, wetland mitigation, and oil and gas exploration. The firm also provides power distribution, roadway lighting and community consulting services. Olsson Associates serves the retail, health care, industrial, institutional, recreational, residential and government sectors. It has a staff of more than 650 employees.

Effective Project Corporation ( EPC ) was formed in 2000 by a talented group of experienced engineers dedicated to providing truly turn-key solutions. We are a multi-disciplined Design & Build firm capable of performing virtually any aspect of design and construction activities in the power, industrial, municipal, chemical and petrochemical industries. Utilizing the experience of our various disciplines, our clients are guaranteed a project that has been engineered and designed with a long track record of proven results. Every engineer in our organization has a minimum of 10 years experience in their related fields. EPC is a streamlined company. On average, we are capable of producing design packages in half the time as our larger counterparts. We attribute this to the fact that our staff is experienced and knowlegeable about the industries. This reduction in design schedule reduces the engineering costs as well as the overall project total installed costs. EPC has a joint venture arrangement with one of the premier construction companies in the area enabling us to provide services from project conceptualization to commissioning and start-up. The strength of this partnership is evident in our bonding capacity in excess of $20, 000, 000 per project. This enables us to provide truly design and build services for our clients.