With a staff of more than 80 people, Rand has engineers and architects covering a full range of disciplines. In the firm's early days, however, it was a shoestring staff with all hands on deck.
"When a job came in, whoever was available took it on, regardless of the type of project or our training," said Rand's Senior Structural Engineer Mike Larkin, PE, one of only several engineers at the firm when it was founded in 1987. "My degree was in civil and structural engineering, but I conducted a lot of physical condition surveys with our mechanical engineer, so I learned about HVAC, electrical, and plumbing systems. I couldn't have asked for better training."
It was both the technical and team support of Mike and his few but devoted Rand coworkers that kept the fledgling company going and enabled it to thrive and grow into the full-service design firm we've become. For more on Mike's thoughts about Rand then and Rand now, click on his photo above to see him as featured in the second installment of our 25th anniversary ad campaign running in Habitat magazine. (Rand's Grand Dame Faye Varone kicked off our campaign last month. You can view her ad here.)
Although Rand has since added plenty of muscle to that early skeletal staff, it's still all hands on deck when needed. Of course, we now have a lot more hands. Fortunately, two of those hands are still Mike Larkin's.
