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The PBSJ (Post, Buckley, Schuh and Jernigan) Corporation is a holding company that provides a wide variety of engineering, planning, and construction management services to over 3,000 public and private clients. The company has more than 75 offices in locations throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
PBSJ began in 1960 as Robert P. Schuh and Associates in Miami, Florida. Schuh worked at an engineering firm with George G. Mooney and John D. Buckley, and they joined with Howard M. Post, an engineer with the Florida State Road Department, to form Robert P. Schuh and Associates. Their first project was the design of Miami Lakes on land owned and developed by the prominent Graham family of South Florida. Schuh was the first and only full-time employee until the end of 1961, by which time his partners had joined the company full time and they renamed the firm to Post, Buckley, Mooney and Schuh.
In the mid-1960s, the company opened its first branch office in the Florida Keys and hired civil engineer Alex M. Jernigan, who had worked with them on the Miami Lakes project. By the end of 1969, the company had grown to four offices in South Florida and employed more than 140 people. George G. Mooney retired and Jernigan took over as principal, and the company marked its tenth anniversary by changing its name to Post, Buckley, Schuh and Jernigan, Inc., or PBS&J.
During the 1970s, PBS&J expanded throughout Florida, opening offices in Dunedin, Tampa, Orlando, Fort Myers, and Tallahassee. In 1973, the firm reorganized into a holding company, the PBSJ Corporation, monitored by a board of directors. The corporation added construction management services in 1977 and architectural services in 1980. In 1987, PBS&J reorganized its corporate structure into four service lines: Environmental, Planning and Development, Transportation, and Construction.
From the 1980s into the 1990s, the company expanded its range into other southeastern states, and then nationally through strategic acquisitions. Its corporate office remained in Miami until it moved to Tampa in 2006. In April 2011, the corporation's name changed to Atkins following its merger in 2010. Atkins is one of the world's largest design firms.
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This collection documents various civil engineering projects that the PBSJ Corporation oversaw throughout Florida. Projects include water treatment plants, highways and bridges, office centers, residences, public transportation, and others for which PBS&J provided engineering, planning, and/or construction management services. The images include street scenes and aerial views that depict buildings, roads, and other infrastructure features in various stages of construction. The collection also includes some images of projects in other states.
The collection primarily consists of photographic slides, but also contains prints, negatives, and digital images. Originally housed in 3-ring binders, many of the folders contain typed indexes of their contents. These indexes provide the binder name (folder title), binder contents (project title or location), and occasionally the year of the project.
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Architecture Florida Buildings Florida. Construction industry Florida Engineers Florida Planning. Surveying Public lands Transit systems. Transportation Florida
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Miami (Fla.) Orlando (Fla.) Tallahassee (Fla.) Tampa (Fla.)
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