Business View Magazine | December 2019

240 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 AT A GLANCE PARTNER ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE, INC. WHAT: Full-service engineering, environmental, and energy consulting and design services firm WHERE: Headquarters in Torrance, CA and East Coast HQ in Eatontown, NJ WEBSITE: www.partneresi.com Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. H ow does an engineering company go from a startup working out of a garage to the dominant market leader in just a few short years? That’s a question Joe Derhake, PE, CEO of Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. gets asked all the time. That and “what does Partner do?” If you’re in the commercial real estate business, there’s a good chance you have heard of Partner. “We are the nation’s largest due diligence firm,” Derhake explains. “If you buy a commercial property, you’d probably order at least five different products from us: an environmental report; a property condition report; an ALTA land title survey; a city zoning study; and in California, most likely, a seismic study.” Known for helping real estate professionals understand “the science of real estate,” Partner provides full- service engineering, environmental, and energy consulting and design services throughout the Americas and Europe. Reflecting on how they achieved such swift success, Joe and his 4 Keys to Success