FROM THE CORNER OFFICE

Our clients; our employees; our future

As the year comes to a close, PS&S has committed time and resources to several initiatives to position the company for growth.  We recognized the need to bring our employees closer to our clients. In the process, we embraced technology to allow for a more mobile workforce.  Our goal has been to create multiple office locations to better service clients. We found an added benefit—greater work life balance for our employees.  It has been a departure from how we have done business traditionally, but by adding offices such as a New York City location has allowed us to retain and attract our most valued assets—great employees.

The new year also brings a newly-expanded PS&S: we announced our purchase of DW Smith Associates last month, and welcome the talented team from DW Smith as we expand our energy, land development, and community association practices.  While this was a natural extension of our current working relationship, our goal is to expand our presence well beyond the Northeast.

Moving forward to 2020

Looking ahead to 2020, we are making some organizational changes. For the past 10 years, we have operated under two main profit and loss centers which many of you are familiar with—the building and land groups—which were comprised of numerous individual department disciplines. We will now merge these departments into three new divisions: Architectural and Engineering, Land Development and Environmental and Energy. Strategically, this new organizational structure will help align our company, as well as foster a smooth transition of incorporating DW Smith clients and employees into the PS&S family.

We are excited about moving to our new headquarters in Warren later next summer.  We are creating spaces to allow for a more collaborative work environment as we reorganize into our three new business units.  We will have new space, new equipment, and employees will be on one floor, instead of different buildings.  We are confident this will help promote more interaction and the exchange of ideas so we can continue providing world-class service.  In addition, we expect to open up more offices in the tri-state area, as well as additional locations including Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

A new decade

For 2020 and beyond, we will  continue to focus on increasing our work on public projects as well as energy utility projects. While we can never forecast the ups and downs of the economy, we believe the stability of public projects and energy utilities will keep our business strong no matter how the economy is impacted.

We thank you for your partnership throughout the years.  We value our clients, employees and other partners who have contributed to our success and growth.  We look forward to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in 2020. Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season!