Delaney Firm Expands Reach Outside Region With New Parent Company
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When Tim Delaney began his engineering design and construction company 25 years ago, he hoped for a successful run. A quarter-century and multiple satisfied clients later, business is bigger and better than ever.
What is now The Delaney Group was recently purchased by engineering firm Tetra Tech, giving the company a much larger presence in the civil and environmental construction arena. The company caught Tetra Tech’s eye due to its growing presence in the field of wind technology, says Delaney, president of The Delaney Group and now senior vice president of Tetra Tech.
“They were looking to make the design and engineering of wind farms a larger component of their overall strategic plan, and we already had a foothold in the industry,” Delaney says. “They took a look at us, liked what they saw and ultimately made a proposal.”
Delaney’s 200-plus employee base was unaffected by the sale, as was the company’s local headquarters. Work still continues for clients in and around Fulton County and that’s not likely to change.
“Tetra Tech’s only goal is to grow our organization,” he says, adding that a 10 percent annual uptick is the current plan.
“We have a fairly large involvement with Department of Defense work, and we’re looking to grow in that particular segment,” he says. “We’re very active at Fort Drum (in northwest New York), and recently through our new parent corporation, we’ve been bidding on a lot of that work in a much larger geographic area.”
In addition, the firm does a great deal of highway reconstruction work and is in the midst of cleaning up the third-largest tire dump in the country, near Syracuse, NY.
“It’s a tire-processing facility, and the dump contains 10 million tires,” Delaney says.
The range of projects and the firm’s growth wouldn’t have been possible without community support and the quality workforce available in Fulton County, he says.
“We are extremely diversified, which I think has led to our success,” he says. “As one market segment would slow down, we could rely on several others to carry us through. But the most important theme throughout is that we’ve been able to surround ourselves with great people. This has been a very good place to be; the workforce we have that live in the area are very dedicated people.”
Story by Joe Morris
Photo by Wes Aldridge
