A Wilmington-based engineering firm has planted two new locations in the Southeast, company officials said Wednesday.
 
Criser Troutman Tanner Consulting Engineers (CTT) has opened a new office in Charlotte and another in Atlanta. Firm spokeswoman Teresa Loman said that existing clients in the two cities, as well as prospects for further growth, prompted the expansion.
 
“We had interest in those markets and feel, with our longevity and what we have to offer, we could share in those markets,” she said. “And, of course, both areas are increasingly expanding.”
 
CTT was founded in Wilmington in 1950 by Henry M. von Oesen, a consulting engineer. In 1957, the firm became Henry von Oesen & Associates. The name changed again in 1992 to CENTURY/von Oesen and six years later, to Criser & Troutman Consulting Engineers. Criser Troutman Tanner became the firm’s legal identity in 2005; a year later the firm established an office in Raleigh. Clients are located across the U.S. and abroad, and CTT is licensed in 17 states and Washington, D.C.
 
CTT is a full-service engineering firm, with expertise in civil/site, structural, coastal and marine engineering, according to a news release, which further stated that the Charlotte office will   handle industrial, commercial, energy, food and beverage and biotech/pharmaceutical clients. The Atlanta office will focus on biotech/pharmaceutical, industrial and commercial clients.
 
Project structural engineer John Plummer Jr. (left) heads up the Charlotte office, according to the release. Plummer, who has more than two decades of experience, is licensed in North and South Carolina and in Virginia.
 
Nathan L. Heinlein (right) manages CTT’s new office in Atlanta and will serve as a project structural engineer, the release stated. He has more than 13 years of structural engineering design and management experience and is a licensed professional structural engineer in Georgia.
 
CTT’s Wilmington headquarters is at 3809 Peachtree Ave.