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W&A Engineering is an energetic and dedicated team of highly skilled, solution-oriented civil and traffic engineers, surveyors, landscape architects, economic development consultants, and planners. We strive to balance the needs of our clients with the needs of the community to improve the built environment and encourage quality projects in the public and private sectors.

W&A Engineering Among 2023 Best Firms To Work For

May 31, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Athens, GA– Better Communities Collaborative announced today that its collective of affiliate firms, including W&A Engineering and GroundHawk, has been named a 2023 Best Firm To Work For Award recipient, recognizing BCC as one of North America’s very best firms leading the AEC industry in progressive workplace […]

Meet Jay Henson, ASLA, PLA: W&A Charlotte Director of Operations

May 24, 2023

Previously the President of North Carolina-based landscape architecture and civil engineering firm HensonFoley, Jay Henson, ASLA, PLA leads the W&A Engineering Charlotte office as Director of Operations, lending his 35 years of leadership and industry experience to our newest and easternmost office. Henson founded HensonFoley in 2000 after twelve years […]

W&A CEO Awarded UGA CED Dean’s Award of Honor

May 24, 2023

Jon Williams (BLA ’96), a University of Georgia College of Environment + Design alumnus, was recently awarded the 2023 Dean’s Award of Honor for his continued dedication to the college, community, and the future of landscape architecture. Each year, the UGA College of Environment + Design hosts an Honors Day […]

W&A Engineering Partners with ACCGov on Vision Zero Program

May 15, 2023

W&A Engineering is proud to partner with the Athens-Clarke County Department of Transportation and Public Works on the development of the Local Road Safety Plan and as a community stakeholder of the recently announced Vision Zero Program—a systems-based approach to improving road safety through safer street design, speed management, and […]

W&A’s Travis Bonar Appointed to ACEC Leadership PE Program

May 3, 2023

W&A Engineering’s Travis Bonar, PE, a Senior Project Manager on the firm’s Nashville-based Civil Engineering team, has been appointed to the American Council of Engineering Companies of Tennessee‘s 2023 Leadership PE Program. The Leadership PE Program is a competency-based program focused on high-potential senior, mid-level, and emerging engineers in both […]

Growing with W&A: Meet Mike Bu, EIT!

April 19, 2023

We’re so excited to welcome Mike Bu to our Civil Engineering team! Mike has recently joined our staff in Atlanta, Georgia where he will be building better communities across the southeast providing creative and analytical engineering on each of his projects. Mike joins W&A Engineering with two years of industry […]

Growing with W&A: Meet Zavier Atkins, EIT!

April 11, 2023

We’re so excited to welcome Zavier Atkins as the newest member of our Civil Engineering team. A Project Engineer in Tennessee, Zavier joins our Nashville team with several years of industry experience building better communities across the southeast, focusing his efforts on residential, industrial, and commercial civil design work. Zavier […]

W&A Engineering Acquires HensonFoley, Expands Into Charlotte, NC

April 3, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Charlotte, North Carolina—W&A Engineering, a rapidly-growing multi-disciplinary engineering firm headquartered in Athens, Georgia, has acquired Charlotte-based landscape architecture and civil engineering firm HensonFoley. HensonFoley is led by President Jay Henson, ASLA, RLA and Vice President Tim Foley, PE. The two are supported by eight industry professionals working […]

W&A’s Georgia Square Mall Redevelopment Plan Receives Unanimous Approval

March 20, 2023

On March 7, 2023, the Athens-Clarke County Commission unanimously approved W&A Engineering’s $650 million plan to redevelop Georgia Square Mall located on Atlanta Highway in west Athens, Georgia. At 74.77 acres, this development is believed to be the largest in the city’s history. “We are elated at the support this […]

BJ Martin, PE, LEED AP Joins W&A Engineering as Atlanta Director of Operations

March 13, 2023

W&A Engineering is pleased to announce the addition of BJ Martin, PE, LEED AP as the incoming Director of Operations leading the firm’s office in Atlanta, Georgia. “We’re thrilled to welcome BJ Martin to our Atlanta team,” said W&A Engineering President and CEO Jon Williams, ASLA, PLA. “He’s joining a […]