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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.

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

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

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!

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.

The Clean Water Partnership, a Public-Private Partnership between Corvias and Prince George’s County held a “Trunk or Treat” at their office parking lot in Largo, Maryland. Soltesz participated in this community activity by decorating our trunk and getting into our costume as a water molecule. Soltesz presented this as two hydrogen atoms bonded to an oxygen. Despite the persistent rain, Soltesz staff member Shanell West, Olivia Bodnar, and Ken Dunn handed out the big bars of candy to the many trunk or treaters!

Saying goodbye to summer, Soltesz gathered at Nationals Ballpark for the Washington Nationals baseball game yesterday against the St. Louis Cardinals. It was a hot one, but we had a ball! Check us out!

Soltesz is committed to enriching the lives and future careers of the next generation of Engineers. This past summer Soltesz was happy to have more interns than we’ve had in a while. They were put to work and they can take credit for a lot! Extensive hydrology design utilizing drainage areas Stormwater management design, including our approach for ESD devices for technical proposal responses Utility design Utilizing TR-55 software, and rational method computations supporting several large residential subdivision projects Assisting and Preparing individual grading plans for building permits on residential development projects for Counties such as St. Mary’s, Howard, Charles, and Prince George’s, some of which were already submitted and received approval!We want to thank our Interns! Joyce Yang, B.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park Jessica Linn, B.S., B.S., Physics, Salisbury University, and Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park Jimmy Liu, B.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park Sara Tolnay, B.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park Jasmine Whims, BLA, Landscape Architecture and BA, Spanish Language, University of Maryland, College Park Andrew Kret, B.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park Brian Furlong, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Graduating Dec 2019 Anissa Walker, LEAD (Learning Engineering and Design) Program, Elizabeth Seton High SchoolThank you to our Interns!