
Terry McMillen, Sr. and his wife, Denise, at the ground breaking of the McMillen Enginnering building on December 7, 2001.
Terry E. McMillen, Sr. founded McMillen Engineering in 1977. It was a rather humble beginning as Terry and his wife, Denise, began in the family room of their home converting a portion of it into office space. The early years required long days and a lot of work and dedication and the company grew steadily.
We soon realized the need for an office outside of our home, and our first ‘official’ office was in Hopwood, Pennsylvania. We stayed at this location for a few years, then we moved to the Hopwood Center for more office space. Our steady growth lead to the construction of a new office building in the Fayette County Business Park on Wayland Smith Drive, just west of Uniontown. It was our 25th year in business and it was a great way to begin the second twenty-five years.
Since 1977, McMillen Engineering has provided a wide spectrum of civil engineering, but the consistent focus from the first project at Todd Farm until today has been land development. The initial projects were a variety of residential developments followed by commercial/light industrial projects and then large scale retail developments. As the needs and opportunities of society changed, we expanded our services to include infrastructure (water and sewer), design of sewage treatment plants, sewerage collection and water distribution systems, structural design, environmental engineering, and traffic engineering.
A large part of our success has been the flexibility to first identify needs and then to prepare ourselves to meet those emerging needs. Our company has been and remains committed to becoming well-versed in changes to legislation, regulations, permitting requirements to provide the most up-to-date requirements to our client.
We firmly believe in giving back to our community and have remained consistent in that effort. We encourage our staff to be involved in their communities and volunteer with local organizations and many staff members continue to volunteer in their community. In 2001 McMillen Engineering was named “Business of the Year” by the Fayette Chamber of Commerce for “…commitment to the local community and support of the Chamber.”