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More than 45 years ago, Summit was founded in Eastern Kentucky as a mining and engineering firm. These roots helped establish the Summit name and positioned the firm’s architectural and civil engineering divisions to become an unspoken powerhouse.
Today, Summit offers unique perspectives for projects across multiple vertical markets. Across our three offices, we provide a team of nearly 50 highly trained architects and engineers with complimentary accessibility to our principals.
Our humble, transparent approach allows us to provide efficient facility designs that reflect the client’s wishes, needs, budget and most of all public life safety.
Summit Engineering, Inc. was started in Pikeville, Kentucky, by Jack Sykes and John Rasnick. Jack and John, both civil engineering graduates from the University of Kentucky, joined together to start Summit Engineering Inc. in Pikeville, Kentucky, in 1977. With their knowledge of the newly implemented mining regulations, they foresaw a need for permitting assistance within the region’s mining companies. They set out to provide design and consulting assistance to help companies navigate the new and unfamiliar permitting process. These services were the bulk of Summit’s engineering services for many years and established Summit’s firm foundation in Eastern Kentucky.
Summit opens a Lexington, Kentucky, office – As Summit continued to grow, providing both mining and civil engineering services, it added a new office in Lexington, Kentucky, providing both services.
Summit Architectural Services forms. Summit continued to expand its services under the name Summit Architectural Services, with a small architecture team based in the Lexington office.
Mike Hill named principal – After 7 years with the company, Mike Hill, PE, civil engineer, became a vice president in the firm.
Byrd Copley and Steve Tackett named principals – Summit promoted office managers Byrd Copley (Grundy, Virginia) & Steve Tackett, PE (Hazard, Kentucky) to vice president.
Lab services rebranded as Tri-State Laboratory Services (Pikeville). Having provided laboratory testing services to its clients in the mining industry for many years in other locations, it rebranded and consolidated these services in a new Pikeville, Kentucky, facility under the name Tri-State Laboratory Services. TLS has expanded its services from surface water sampling and testing to include soil and concrete testing.
Kevin Howard, vice president of the Civil Department, was named president and CEO of Summit and guided the firm through a challenging transition period that saw significant downturn in Summit’s mine permitting business but increased focus on growth in architecture and civil engineering services.
Scott Noel becomes principal.
Summit consolidated all of its Pikeville staff and services from Summit Engineering & Tri-State Laboratory into the same building in Lanks Branch in Pikeville. This move created significant increases in efficiency and better allows us to coordinate between departments.
Steve Maggard becomes principal.
Summit Engineering & Summit Architectural Services consolidated under a new brand: Summit Architects + Engineers.
Scott Noel named president & CEO. (Kevin Howard retired after 41 years).
Summit develops personalized strategies to fit your needs, goals and budget. Our unique approach and diverse skillset supports clients’ visions and objectives from the funding stage through post-occupancy.