BRONZE MEDAL BUSINESS ACHIEVEMENT: ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION

COLUMBIA Technologies, LLC, a small veteran-owned provider of site characterization tools, for significant geographic expansion. During 2008, the company added offices in the western and southeastern regions of the United States and initiated field service delivery in Canada. In addition, COLUMBIA Technologies extended the offering of its patented SmartData Solutions® internationally, providing real-time quality assurance and information processing support to major clients in Italy, Japan, and New Zealand. Over the past three years, the COLUMBIA Technologies’ team has delivered its high-resolution services to 125 individual clients on over 250 sites, imaged in high resolution over a mile of subsurface geochemical conditions each month, worked in 36 states and five countries, and generated a sustained annual revenue growth rate of 23%.