Category: Architecture & Engineering

Tribal One is working to ensure the safety of drinking water and water systems in schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Education in five western states.

Tribal One Architecture and Engineering, LLC, and teaming partner Tetra Tech, Inc., are assessing school water systems in Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon and South Dakota under a $1.4 million contract awarded by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Assessments of the water systems infrastructure at the schools will focus on lead, copper and PFAS contaminants in drinking water to ensure these systems meet Environmental Protection Agency standards as established by the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act.

“Throughout this project, Tribal One and Tetra Tech will coordinate the effort to place key personnel in the field to conduct multiple school assessments over a wide area of the west,” said Zach Recine, Design Project Manager at Tribal One Architecture and Engineering. “Our team will manage the assessments and we expect to complete all reporting and documentation by the end of the year.”

Water assessments will be conducted in seven critical areas including the sources, transmission, distribution, storage, treatment and operations of drinking water in the schools as well as wastewater systems, water fire suppression and emergency response mechanisms.

Tribal One is teaming with Galloway and Company, Inc., to create a new joint venture that will operate in the federal architecture and engineering market.

T1-Galloway Joint Venture, LLC brings together Galloway’s four decades of experience delivering comprehensive in-house A&E services with the strategic positioning of Tribal One Architecture and Engineering, LLC – the newest member of Tribal One’s family of government contractors.

According to Matt Greene, general manager of Tribal One’s A&E firm, the new joint venture will be well positioned to compete in the government marketplace.

“T1-Galloway is a tribally owned and SBA certified joint venture, which allows us to compete for government contracts set aside for small businesses,” Greene said. “Our combined resources give our customers a solid option for creating solutions to their operational and structural needs.”

The joint venture provides a full range of design and consultation services with expertise in mechanical/electrical/plumbing, structural, civil, water resource and traffic engineering. The firm also provides construction management, general and landscape architecture services, interior design and facility evaluations along with GIS and other survey services.

T1-Galloway participates in the All Small Mentor-Protégé program managed by the U.S. Small Business Administration.