Facility Group spins
off Denver consulting arm; Harding to lead office
TFG Consulting, the
Denver-based consulting unit of The Facility Group, will now operate under the
name Harding Consulting Alliance and do business separately from TFG.
“Both sides are reacting to
the market,” said Ken Harding, who will head HCA. “We are very busy on the
consulting side, but the (architecture and engineering) side is not that busy,
and since TFG at its core is an engineering and architecture company, we decided
it would be better placed for us to focus on optimizing, consulting and
planning.”
Harding said HCA can continue
to use the architectural and engineering services of TFG under an alliance, but
will operate as a separate business entity.
Harding will share management
of HCA with Darrin Miller, who was director of consulting at TFG. Scot Sherick,
another TFG principal, left the group to open his own Denver-area architectural
firm. The seven-employee HCA will remain in its downtown Denver offices, Harding
said.
Atlanta-based TFG formed the
print/media group in 2006 to focus on newspaper-oriented plant and consulting
projects. But within the last year, the notion of plant consolidation has led
publishers to pull back on plans to construct new facilities, forcing companies
such as TFG to reassess their options.
