Dan Foree and Jeff Vann met in 1976 while both were employed by the City of Phoenix materials laboratory. Conversation often turned to the idea of starting their own company. Dan and Richard Miller started "Valley Testing and Engineering, Inc." in 1980 from a location on 21st Avenue in Phoenix. Dan and Jeff became partners in 1982 and incorporated as Foree & Vann, Inc. to offer Materials Testing and Geotechnical Engineering services from a location on Mission Lane.
We moved to our present location on 24th Avenue in 1985 to offer still more services with the acquisition of exploration seismograph equipment in 1985 and a CME-55 drill rig for subsurface investigations in 1986. A second drill rig was brought into service in 1998 and a third in 2007.
Our Environmental Department was created in 1986 to offer Phase I, II, and III Environmental Site Assessments. The Environmental Department expanded its scope of services to offer asbestos building inspections from AHERA-trained personnel in 1992, NEPA compliance documentation for telecommunications facilities in 1999, and Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans for construction projects in 2001.
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