OAC | Who We Are

A look at OAC over the years:

1970s

The 1970s were a time of extensive growth. OAC's home office was located on John Street in the Cascade area of Seattle with branch offices in Anchorage, Portland, and Richland. The company's project management services had prospered and in 1970, with the return of Peter Jobs from Australia, Gerry Brunstrom and Peter Jobs branched off to form Olympic Engineering Corporation. During this time, Mr. Jobs also pioneered the development of value analysis and gained his Certified Value Specialist status in 1974, leading to large contracts with the Corps of Engineers and Federal Highway Administration. In 1978, the two companies, Tracey, Brunstrom, & Dudley, and Olympic Engineering Corporation, merged to form the present day Olympic Associates Company. That same year, Mr. Jobs was elected President of OAC.

OAC's extensive involvement in the nuclear industry during the 1970s led to the opening of the Richland office near the Department of Energy's Hanford Reservation. Work at Hanford quadrupled the size of the company and led to other similar work with the Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Services provided: Architecture; Mechanical, Civil, and Structural Engineering; Value Analysis; CPM Scheduling; Project Management

Approximate staff: 20-100

Clients included: Westinghouse Hanford Company; FHWA; Corps of Engineers; GSA, Weyerhaeuser; NBBJ; Boeing; Port of Seattle; Department of Justice; Washington Public Power Supply System

Interesting note: In 1979, OAC won the national Secretary of Defense Blue Seal Award for "The Most Outstanding Design" for the Trident Training Facility, Naval Submarine Base at Bangor, WA. The award was presented by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Bremerton, WA. (pictured above)