December 15, 2007
When P.R. Banister opened his civil engineering business in North St. Paul, Minn., in 1927, he knew that high quality service equaled success. He probably didn't know, however, that 80 years later, his one-person office would become a multidisciplined consulting services firm of 750 employees in nearly 30 offices across the nation, responsible for completing tens of thousands of projects for thousands of clients.