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“Our strength is low overhead and we’ve got a very talented team, so it’s really
surrounding ourselves with really good people.”
our company and of course we selected some
very good people.”
Ecora’s roster of professionals continued
to grow as they attracted engineers with es-
tablished reputations and experience in B.C.’s
Okanagan region – an area with a large share
of the engineering and consulting market. In
early 2011, Ecora acquired Chesapeake Ser-
vices – an engineering firm in Penticton, B.C. –
and they formed a sister company called Ecora
Engineering, which allowed them to merge the
consulting and engineering sides and offer a
wider range of services to their clients.
Today, the company’s offices in Kelowna,
Penticton, Prince George and Vancouver de-
liver a full complement of natural resource
consulting, civil engineering and structural
engineering services to a diverse client base
operating in forestry, oil and gas, municipal de-
velopments, alternative energy, and other in-
dustries. They’ve grown to a team of 50 profes-
sionals, ranging from biologists and ecologists
