A Decade Strong: Celebrating CEC Greenville’s 10th Anniversary

Over the past 10 years, CEC Greenville has grown from a two‑person environmental compliance team into a multi‑disciplinary office serving the Southeast. We’ve expanded our services, delivered impactful projects, grown our team by more than 800%, invested in new space, strengthened our culture, and deepened our commitment to the Upstate community. A decade in, our growth tells a powerful story.

Here’s a glimpse into what makes CEC Greenville and our 10^th anniversary so special.

Our Expertise in Markets and Practices

• When our office opened in 2016, environmental compliance was the primary service offered. Fast forward to 2026 and we have added a strong civil engineering team, environmental due diligence, NEPA, and other complementary environmental services, professional survey services, and landscape architecture.
• Our client base, market expertise, and immersion into the community have grown, and relationships have strengthened over the past 10 years as we strive to support economic growth in the Upstate.
• In the Greenville office, we feel it is important to be actively present in the community, to participate in, and sponsor local professional organizations, such as the Greenville, Anderson, and Easley chambers of commerce, Upstate Alliance, Greenville Area Development Corp., Greenville Economic Development Corporation, Ten at the Top, Commercial Women in Real Estate (CREW), and One Spartanburg, only to name a few!
• Our office services the entire Southeastern Region of the United States, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Alabama.

Our Projects

• We tackled a South Carolina Brownfields Project on a challenging property and the development a charter school in Indian Land, SC for a growing community in need of additional educational opportunities for their families.
• Our office provided civil engineering and surveying services for the beautiful AnMed Piedmont.
• We provided construction survey for The Abbey, a transformative apartment complex on Haywood Road.
• CEC Greenville guided multiple solar projects across South Carolina, land development projects across the entire Southeast, and natural gas pipelines in the Carolinas.

Our Growth

• The Greenville office started with two employees and has grown over 800% in the last 10 years. We are now standing with 22 dedicated staffers.
• We moved to a new office location at 777 Lowndes Hill Road in October 2023. The office meets our current and future needs for our growing office, with a location that is more convenient for our clients,

Our Culture

• We make a point to celebrate our employees! Notably, employee birthdays are celebrated each month, with the celebrants choosing their favorite desserts.
• We host an annual Thanksgiving and holiday party each year where employees come together to celebrate the seasons.
• We celebrate personal milestones together such as graduations, weddings, and new babies.

Our Community

• The Greenville team believes in supporting the community in several ways such as donating nonperishable food items to Harvest Hope, a local food bank, as well as Toys for Tots. In 2025, we collected more than 200 toys.
• CEC was a sponsor for the Red Shoe Society in 2025 for the main fundraising event, The Annual Plane Pull, which raised a record of $37,000 for the Greenville Ronald McDonald House.
• CEC Greenville sponsored Family Promise of Pickens County in 2025. This is a nonprofit organization which is dedicated to helping homeless families with children.