G2 Consulting Group (G2) specializes in ‘everything below the ground,’ so it is completely appropriate that the firm started below ground as well. To be more specific, G2 started in Noel Hargrave-Thomas’ basement, where he and fellow founders Mark Smolinski and Bruce Wilberding began to lay out their plans in August 1994. The three co-founders began G2 with a goal to deliver responsive, specialized geotechnical engineering, environmental consulting, and construction engineering services that would help clients build better, build smarter, and build profits. The firm quickly developed a core of successful clients and outgrew Noel’s basement by the end of that first year. G2 has since expanded to three offices – Troy, MI, Ann Arbor, MI, and Chicagoland, IL – with over 100 team members!