HRC Insights

HRC celebrated in style over the holidays. The team gathered on December 8 to celebrate comradery, and the hard work and successes of 2022. Pictured are Tammy Segura, MacKenzie Gulledge, and Hope Hendrix enjoying the festivities. HRC is a strong believer of building relationships not only with their clients but their team members. This makes our organization stronger, and better able [...]

HRC’s Pete Nunn has coached youth football for more than 32 years. During that time, he did more than develop the skills, motivation, and fitness of players and teams. Many of the youngsters he worked with had needs that went beyond the game, and Pete noticed. When COVID hit in 2020, Pete started Brother Let Me Be Your Shelter, a not-for-profit [...]

HRC has a team with many talents and recently showed it at the company’s 1st Annual Cornhole Tournament! Great times and banter, sprinkled with competitiveness and comradery were had by all. Congratulations to team members, Avery and Joseph, for the win!

HRC team members gathered for the annual Create2Elevate event on Oct. 21. The day-long get-together included team-building exercises, motivational guest speakers, and leisure activities (including skeet shooting and a scavenger hunt). It all happened at beautiful FoxHall, a 1,100 resort just outside Atlanta that also happens to be an HRC Engineers’ project. Special guests included Kent J. Wessinger, PhD, founder of [...]

It was team building at its best on Oct. 21. At the annual Create2Elevate event, HRC Engineers’ small groups put their heads together to come up with programs to make the company a better place to work—and enhance its ability to deliver value to clients. Each employee team spent time coming up with an idea and putting a presentation together. Ideas [...]

Deserving Villa Rica Elementary school students and their families enjoyed Thanksgiving this year with a traditional meal to enjoy at home. HRC Engineers worked with the school to donate the funds to help make sure these members of one of the communities we’re proud to serve had the turkey and fixings they needed to celebrate the holiday in style. [...]

Another HRC professional has earned professional certification. The letters PLS now appear after Aaron Studdard’s name, designating to the world that he’s met the education and experience requirements—and passed rigorous national and state tests—to be a professional land surveyor. Aaron is a Mississippi State University graduate who started his college career as a civil engineering major before switching to land surveying. [...]

Members of the design, survey and support teams came together on Oct. 31 for HRC Engineers’ first-ever pumpkin-carving contest. From traditional to almost outrageous, the contest brought out the creativity in everyone. P.S. Can you guess which one won? If you guessed the bottom right, you are correct.

Chase Sippola is only in his early ‘20s and already he’s chalked up a number of achievements in life. He was accepted at Georgia Tech (only 21% of applicants are), he landed an internship at HRC Engineers (only 10 are selected each year), and he made the Georgia Tech football team as a walk-on (another rare feat). The Carrollton, Ga. native [...]

Congratulations to the most recent HRC team member to receive professional certification. Project Manager Sam Kennemer recently passed the four-part national exam to become a Professional Landscape Architect (PLA). The rigorous 2.5-year process is a career milestone—and a boon to HRC clients benefitting from his design expertise. The Mississippi State graduate started with HRC as an undergraduate in 2018, interning at [...]