The Herald Business Journal


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Published July 2001

Sparling: a growing company with big clients

By John Wolcott
Herald Business Journal Editor

Along with being the technology consultant, electrical engineer and lighting designer for Seattle’s Future@Work exhibit, in partnership with local and national technology leaders, Sparling has established itself as a leader in creating high-tech telecommunications innovations and the wiring networks that accompany those cutting-edge ventures.

The 54-year-old company is also the electrical consultant for 70 percent of the Seattle area’s health-care projects — including the Providence Everett Medical Center’s $40 million Women’s and Children’s Pavilion due to open early next year — and a technology design leader for educational and corporate clients in the Pacific Northwest.

With more than 130 electrical engineers, technology consultants, architectural lighting designers and support staff, Sparling ranks as one of the top 100 fastest-growing private companies and one of the top 500 national design firms. Its staff has quadrupled since 1990, making the company the nation’s largest electrical engineering and technology consulting business.

The company is involved in technology planning, telecommunications, security systems, video conferencing, and telehealth/telemedicine systems as well as a variety of audiovisual and broadcast projects. Major client targeting includes commercial, health care, biotech, e-commerce, public/civic, hospitality, retail, higher education, industrial/manufacturing and broadcast/entertainment markets.

Key clients include NBBJ, Boeing, Microsoft, Safeco, ATL, Seattle Center, Starbucks, University of Washington., Vulcan Northwest and the Port of Seattle, with major projects ranging from the Experience Music Project and Microsoft’s Executive Briefing Center to the Sea-Tac Airport’s Central Terminal expansion and Tacoma’s International Glass Museum.

Sparling designed the first all-digital broadcast production facility in the United States for Fox’s KCPQ Channel 13 in Seattle, has international projects in China, Japan and Russia, worked on the Pacific Science Center’s IMAX theater and created lighting for Nike stores nationally, through its Candela Architectural Lighting division.

Community involvement by Sparling and its employees includes United Way — which has cited the company with five Awards of Caring and its 2000 Corporate Giving Award in King County — and Junior Achievement of Greater Puget Sound.

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