BSC remains intent on the qualitative aspects of its growth to address changing client needs and transform the human environment for the better.
A team of three professionals, William Bryant, Gunther Gruelich and Fritz Petersohn, holding degrees in surveying engineering and civil engineering, founded the firm in 1965 to address perceived needs in the marketplace for more engineering-oriented surveying services particularly on larger-scale infrastructure and site development projects. The firm very early in its history, however, formally began to offer civil engineering and site planning and permitting services.
By the mid-1970s, the firm was increasingly involved in meeting client needs generated by early legislation on environmental issues, especially wetlands and coastal resources. BSC’s market focus from the beginning included both public and private sector clients. In the 1980s, however, private real estate development powered rapid growth for the firm and the need for additional discipline offerings, including landscape architecture, broadened ecological services and transportation engineering, creating a truly multi-disciplinary firm. Further, as a pioneering early-adopter, the firm harnessed the early CADD and GPS technologies that became available.
During the 1990s, BSC grew its presence in the public sector, and added a focus on institutional and energy industry clients. The firm expanded from its Massachusetts base into Connecticut and added a systems integration subsidiary, Geonetics, that offered customized software applications for accessing enterprise-wide data. The firm established a presence in North Carolina in 2005.
Now in its fifth decade of professional service, BSC remains intent on the qualitative aspects of its growth to address changing client needs and transform the human environment for the better.
