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On November 14, 2019, Ed Carroll, Vice President and General Manager of Southern Maryland Operations for Soltesz was selected as the 2019 recipient of the Maryland Building Industry Association’s (MBIA) “Chapter Member of the Year” award. The award was presented at the MBIA Awards of Excellence event for recognition of his contributions, participation, and service within MBIA’s Charles County Chapter and within the MBIA throughout the past year.Read more about this year's MBIA awards and event on their website: https://web.marylandbuilders.org/news/newsarticledisplay.aspx?ArticleID=56Check out this news on our social media accounts and share! MBIA Award Honoring Ed Caroll, PE

Soltesz Provides "Real World" Practical Insight into Site Design and Development to Students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Capstone Class at the University of Maryland, College ParkRockville, MD November 11, 2019 – Soltesz recently taught a short lecture series to senior-level civil and environmental engineering students at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. The students in the ENCE 466, or "capstone", class are engaged in a unique project experience; designing and presenting master-planned improvements at Glen Echo Park in Montgomery County, MD.Soltesz engaged with the students, most graduating in the Fall of 2019, to provide insight and feedback on several civil engineering concerns related to their site plans. Soltesz worked with the professor, Russell Anderson, PE as well as members of the Glen Echo Park Partnership to understand the semester-long project assigned to the students, and provide comparable, real-world engineering and planning examples to help the students as they develop their plans for the park improvements. The lectures were provided on campus in College Park, MD and covered several topics including Site Assessment, Preliminary Engineering, Entitlements, Final Engineering, Permitting, resources for accessing local public information, and professional tips for the various nuances relating to historical sites and project management with multiple levels of co-owners.Jim Soltesz, CEO and President of Soltesz Inc., visited the students on campus to provide insight into the business aspect of engineering and how to appeal to client needs. Additionally, Jane Przygocki, AICP; Keely Lauretti, LEED AP; and Brandon Fritz, PE provided in-depth lecture content and answered student questions. The students were asked to develop conceptual plans for improvements to the park, provide expanded facilities and attractions for park users, incorporate modern utility and sustainability features, and provides a solution that will grow the site into a thriving community hub without distributing the current programs. Students focused their designs on implementing modern mobility and safety solutions with a large focus on livability, customer service, and economic development while maintaining environmental stewardship and ultimately improving the site.The students in the class are split into several design teams, and each team presented their initial concept plans in mid-October 2019 to a panel of interviewers which included representatives from the client’s offices, UMD professors, and industry professionals. Marcie Bartlett, Marketing and Proposal Manager at Soltesz, provided the students with feedback from a marketing perspective, designed to provide the students insight before their final presentation at the end of the semester. Soltesz has been invited back to participate in the interviewing panel at the end of the semester during the first week of December, where the students will present their final plans.Soltesz Inc. considers education to be a top priority not only for students, but for our employees as well; Soltesz has been approved by Maryland DLLR as a provider of Continuing Professional Competency requirements and is dedicated to providing quality professional education.

Soltesz Knows Dry UtilitiesIt has been a year of growth for Soltesz, and we’re not done yet! Soltesz announces the expansion of its service offering, adding Dry Utility Services to the list of ever-growing areas of expertise for our team.Dry utility management can be a cumbersome burden to any project. By creating an in-house dry-utilities services team, we provide fast and accurate dry utility services to our clients to ease this burden and administer proactive and strategic management of said dry utilities. This reduces redundancy, communication and coordination time, and allows the engineering team to stay in constant contact with all utility providers at all times during the project. Project stakeholders can rest assured that they always have a designated, single point-of-contact with whom they can coordinate on all dry utility service matters. Our services include the design, processing, and coordination of Power, Fiber, Gas, and Telecommunications.For more information about our new Dry Utility Services expansion, please contact us or read more on our Services page.

On August 25, 2019, Washington Adventist Healthcare opened its new White Oak Medical Center facility in Montgomery County, Maryland. Soltesz attended the hospital’s ribbon-cutting event on August 15, 2019, to celebrate the completion of a project representing several years of hard work for the many companies and agencies working together to bring this new hospital to fruition.The new hospital is located at the White Oak Science Gateway, adjacent to the FDA Headquarters, and seeks to serve as a new hub for bioscience and healthcare innovation in Montgomery County, Maryland. The new hospital is a result of the relocation of Washington Adventist’s healthcare facility in Takoma Park. The chosen location near the border of Montgomery and Prince George’s counties provides strategic access via major interconnecting roads, enhancing the hospital’s accessibility to its patients and the community. The hospital offers services in cardiology, emergency medical care, maternity, mental health, radiology, and other programs.The hospital will also provide multiple opportunities for interaction with nature; the campus features significant views of the lake on the western portion of the property, and the nature trails will allow patients, visitors, and staff to enjoy the lake’s solitude and healing effects. Gardens and other natural throughout the campus are designed to enhance the healing environment in this innovation of medicine right here in Montgomery County.The hospital’s modern design focuses on sustainability and providing an environment conducive to developing further innovative healthcare solutions. Landscaping and natural light design techniques create a natural healing environment. In addition to being one of the LEED consultants on the project, Soltesz is responsible for the research and design of LEED-NC credits and is continuing to provide support for, engineering, planning and surveying services for the new Washington Adventist Hospital.

From left to right: Ed Carroll, Soltesz VP & General Manager, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, Jim Soltesz, Soltesz President & CEO.Last week, Soltesz headed to Ocean City, MD to participate in MACo, the annual Maryland Association of Counties Conference. This year’s conference focused on the theme, “Winds of Change.” It invited Maryland leaders to dive deeply into the programs, initiatives, and solutions that promise to propel Maryland forward as industry and thought leaders in digital revolution, public safety, and government and constituent services. The conference focused on harnessing that momentum for the good of all Marylanders. As proponents of both community service and resourceful design via civil, environmental, and landscape engineering, Soltesz participated enthusiastically in discussions surrounding solar and wind power, stormwater management, public school design, and civil design in Maryland.Maryland Governor Larry Hogan stopped by our booth to say hello and is pictured with Jim Soltesz, President & CEO, and Ed Carroll, VP & General Manager of the Soltesz Southern Maryland offices.While this conference covered serious topics about the future of Maryland, we had a lot of fun connecting with Maryland leaders at the event. Exhibitor booths were encouraged to decorate with and dress up as Super Heroes to engage with their audiences. Soltesz joined in the festivities with superhero giveaways and photo booth props.Our winner for the noise-canceling headphones has opted to keep their name private, but congrats to our winner! We look forward to attending next year’s conference.

December 2018 - Every year, Soltesz sponsors a holiday card contest at A. Mario Loiederman Middle School, named after the founder of Soltesz. The top 3 winners receive gift cards from Soltesz. This year's winning holiday art card design goes to Muhammad Saad! Happy Holidays, everyone!Below are the lucky winners!

January 25, 2019 - Last night, the Maryland Society of Professional Engineers honored James A. Soltesz (Jim) with the "Icon of the Industry Award." Colleagues, employees, friends and engineers gathered at the Engineer's Club for their semi-annual Engineers Cocktail Reception and Awards Night. This event is held to celebrate the newly licensed engineers of Maryland at the historic Engineers Club.A new element to this event, the Engineers Club presented the "Icon of the Industry Award"  which is given to a Maryland Professional Engineer exhibiting longstanding leadership and success in the engineering profession. Jim's contributions to his profession along with excellence in employee, customer and community relations have proven to be a true icon of our industry.Read More

Nov 15, 2018 – Ken Dunn,  Vice President & General Manager of Soltesz in Lanham, Maryland was selected as the 2018 recipient of the Maryland Building Industry Association's Joseph C. Rodgers Sr. "Associate of the Year" Award. The award is presented annually in recognition of extraordinary and outstanding service by an associate member to the Association throughout the current year of the award.As stated by MBIA, Ken has his finger on the pulse of the growth of Suburban Maryland and Washington, DC, and has advocated the industry's position on stormwater regulations and revisions to the local permitting process throughout his career. He has been at the forefront of other regulatory changes and his expertise has brought about many positive results for the industry on important issues.Ken also is Chair of the Prince George's County Chapter, a role he has held since 2013 that continues into 2019. One of Ken's biggest challenges has taken place over the past two years, when he worked tirelessly on the rewrite of the Prince George's County Zoning Ordinance. Throughout the arduous process, Ken held multiple stakeholder meetings in his office, worked closely with government officials and compiled pages upon pages of written comments to ensure the building industry's interests were protected.Additionally Jim Gotsch, PE was nominated to be the Southern Maryland Chapter Chair as  a Board of Directors member.Soltesz is extremely proud to have Ken Dun as one of our executive leaders! Congratulations to Ken!Read the MBIA's full press release here:Read More

Soltesz is fortunate to have been a major partner in the Prince George’s County Clean Water Partnership, which is a $100,000,000 program retrofitting 2,000 acres of impervious area within the county. This is the largest urban retrofit program in the United States and Soltesz is the lead design firm.Over the past 13 months, Soltesz has designed nearly 1,000 environmental site design features which have been retrofitted to hundreds of sites throughout Prince George’s County. We appreciate the partnership that we have formed with Prince George’s County and Corvias Solutions. Soltesz is a top engineering firm serving Maryland and the surrounding DC Metropolitan Region for over 35 years. The firm provides site and civil design, environmental sciences, landscape architecture, and surveying services from six offices throughout the region.For more information on Soltesz’s efforts as part of the Clean Water Partnership, contact Ken Dunn, Managing Member, at kdunn@solteszco.com or 301.794.7555.

Soltesz is proud of our services and relationships that have helped bring these projects to fruition.Viva White OakSoltesz was recognized for their contributions for the VIVA White Oak project at the groundbreaking celebration on October 22, 2018. The event was attended by Governor Hogan, Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, County Executive Ike Leggett, many other elected officials and key business people who collaborated on bringing this project to Montgomery County. County Executive Ike Leggett noted the tremendous effort put forth by Soltesz toward making this project a reality. Soltesz is providing all of the planning, civil engineering, environmental, landscape architecture, and surveying services necessary to shepherd this complex project through the Montgomery County land development process.VIVA White Oak is the largest new development in Montgomery County and the State of Maryland. The 300-acre community will accommodate more than 12,000,000 square feet and include the Life Science City of the Future in Montgomery County. The VIVA Project is adjacent to the new Washington Adventist Hospital and to the Consolidated FDA Site.  This important project will include thousands of new homes, retail businesses, entertainment and educational facilities, parks, hotel and conference center, as well as millions of square feet of office and research facilities for world-renowned biomedical companies. With the FDA serving as an adjacent anchor for the entire project, this mixed-use property will provide a key opportunity for people to live and work in this exciting Montgomery County community. Viva White Oak Groundbreaking photo. Photo credit courtesy of Clark Day Photography.Clarksburg Sewer ExtensionSoltesz was recognized at the groundbreaking of the Clarksburg Sewer Extension Project with the Montgomery County Department of General Services On November 1, 2018. Speakers included County Executive Ike Leggett; County Coucilmember, District 2, Craig Rice; Director, Department of General Services, David Dise; and Fire Chief, Fire and Rescue Service, Scott Goldstein. Soltesz recently completed the civil design for this high priority project to provide approximately 3,800 feet of proposed gravity sewer to the Clarksburg Historic District, and surrounding properties. The proposed sanitary sewer main will be located on MD-355, MD-121 and Spire Street. The sewer will drain into the proposed pump station located on the nearby Mile/Coppola property. The pump station is currently under design by WSSC. The proposed sanitary main will also provide sewer service to the new fire station off of MD-355.Soltesz, Inc., based in Rockville, Maryland, is an ENR MidAtlantic ranked top engineering firm serving Maryland and the surrounding DC Metropolitan Region for over 38 years. The firm provides site and civil design, environmental sciences, landscape architecture, and surveying services from six offices throughout the region.To learn more about the Soltesz team and our expertise in engineering, surveying, planning, and environmental services throughout the Mid-Atlantic area, please visit www.solteszco.com.