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At HRC, we’re focused on delivering high value engineering, surveying and landscape architecture services, in partnership with our private and public clients. But that’s not all. While each one of our 25-plus team members work hard on-site and in the office to deliver high-value services that make those we serve more successful—we also prioritize making the places we live, better. As [...]

HRC (Hughes-Ray Company) is putting its credentials to work. The firm’s land surveying team recently applied for—and received—GDOT prequalification. Prequalification is required in order to work as a consultant for the Georgia Department of Transportation. Detailed documentation of relevant projects, as well as the instrumentation (tools) used by the company’s surveyors, was provided to the GDOT as part of the prequalification [...]

Taylor Pounds, HRC’s design department manager, has been named co-chair of the Youth Leadership Douglas County (YLDC) class of 2019 – 2020. He was tapped for the position by the Douglas County Chamber of Commerce following his graduation from the 10-month Leadership Douglas program earlier in 2019. YLDC is a program for students. Fifty high schoolers are accepted for either the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Howard B. Ray Named to ARC Regional Leadership Institute HRC president one of 56 metro- Atlanta leaders selected Douglasville, GA (July 12, 2019) – HRC Engineers, Surveyors and Landscape Architects announced today that its president, Howard B. Ray, has been named as a participant in The Atlanta Regional Commission’s 2019 Regional Leadership Institute (RLI).   Mr.Ray is one of [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HRC’s Brian Howell Becomes a Registered Landscape Architect A supportive culture helps its professionals—and the firm—succeed Douglasville, GA (July 3, 2019) – HRC announced today that Brian Howell has taken the final step toward becoming a registered landscape architect. The 2015 Mississippi State University graduate and HRC apprentice passed the Landscape Architectural Registration Exam (LARE) required to be [...]

While Aaron McCullough’s day job is vice president at HRC, he prioritizes time to volunteer in the community. Aaron recently served as a judge for InVenture, a competition among fifth-graders at South Douglas Elementary School. Student teams were asked to invent a product or service. The students came up with ideas, did market research and made formal presentations. A panel of [...]

Contact:   Nancy Joyce Nancy Joyce Marketing, Inc. njoyce@nancyjoycemarketing.com HRC Acquires Assets of Etowah Engineering & Surveying Business Agreement Assures Client Service Continuity DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (March 26, 2019)—HRC Engineers, Surveyors and Landscape Architects today announced it has purchased the files of Dallas, Ga.-based Etowah Engineering & Surveying. HRC is now positioned to efficiently provide civil engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture and construction [...]

As always, this year’s Douglas County Chamber Winter Ball was a don’t-miss event for members. Held Feb. 9, 2019, the Winter Ball celebrated the transition of leadership. HRC’s Howard B. Ray (pictured above, left) took over the reins at the annual event from outgoing chairman Kara Pearson (pictured above, right) of GreyStone Power. Ray now serves as 2019’s chairman of the [...]

HRC’s Howard B. Ray is the 2019 Douglas Chamber chairman. The newly installed chairman of the 2019 Douglas Chamber of Commerce has big plans for the West Georgia county. Howard B. Ray, who also serves as president of civil engineering, land surveying and landscape architectural firm HRC, was featured in a Feb. 15, 2019 article written by Tom Spigolon in the [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOVKp3A0NKQ&feature=youtu.be The Douglas County Chamber recently sat down with Howard B. Ray, president of HRC, and 2019 chamber chair. HRC’s been involved with the chamber the better part of 10 years, and Howard now serves as chair. When asked what he appreciates most about his job, Howard replied, “What I love most is helping my clients. “Our mission, our goal, is [...]