Why It Matters

The built environment - our arena of service - touches everyone every day.  People need shelter, places to work, places to eat, places to learn and grow, ways to commute.  The nature of architecture and engineering is to find creative solutions to problems - some mundane, some extraordinary.

Wallace Engineering believes that our role in the profession and in people's lives is to find a way to integrate what we need to do and find a fun and creative way to do it.  We know that our clients require technical expertise, engineering excellence, solutions to problems and ways to communicate our thoughts to those charged with constructing them.  We also believe that we owe them a way to make the process creative, flexible and timely while maintaining the highest degree of quality.  We want to be seen as both fun and great.

We've come to call this characteristic of our service Element "W" and we think it sets us apart.  Element "W" is the ineffable quality that encompasses our core values while reflecting our desire to provide fun, comfort, competence, consistency, efficiency, flexibility, responsiveness, satisfaction, perseverance, technological savvy, empathy for the architectural vision, all wrapped up in elegant and practical solutions.

These qualities can't be commoditized.  It's what set us apart, not what makes us the same.  It makes us Wallace Engineering and that's why it matters.