Thornton Tomasetti Acquires Green Consulting Firm
Posted January 10, 2012
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Wolfgang Werner, Thornton Tomasetti's former director of sustainability, becomes vice president and head of the firm's new Building Sustainability practice in the East U.S. region. Gunnar Hubbard, Fore Solution's principal and founder, becomes a principal at Thornton Tomasetti and head of the new practice; and Robert DeScenza, president of Thornton Tomasetti.
Thornton Tomasetti, the New York-based engineering firm, has acquired Fore Solutions, a green building consulting firm that will allow Thornton Tomasetti to expand its sustainability consulting services and integrate green objectives across all its practices.
The new Building Sustainability practice will be headed by Gunnar Hubbard, Fore Solution's principal and founder, who becomes a principal at Thornton Tomasetti. Wolfgang Werner, formerly director of sustainability, becomes a vice president and head of the practice's East U.S. region.
By 2015, approximately half of new construction in the United States is estimated to incorporate some measure of sustainability. With the creation of its Green Building Strategy Team in 2007 and a sustainability department in 2010, Thornton Tomasetti started offering sustainability services and performing sustainability project work.
The Fore Solutions team will remain based in Portland, Maine, which is now a Thornton Tomasetti office within the East U.S. region.
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