TME Inc.

TME Inc. has built a 15-year track record of continuous profitability, providing engineering and energy services to clients in 24 states and five countries. The Little Rock firm is powered by a staff of about 160 and operations in Fayetteville, St. Louis, Oklahoma City and Tucson, Ariz.
While other firms were losing money and laying off staff, TME was holding its own and then some. The company completed its best revenue year ever, hitting about $15 million in 2010.
The firm has taken its core areas of expertise in health care, higher education and energy conservation projects from Arkansas to a national market. TME was an early player in the green market, with new and retro commission work and utility analysis and audit.
“We’ve been doing this almost from day one when no one else was,” said Allen Pettit, chief administrative officer and partner.
The company was founded in 1995 as Tinsley Engineers by Ed Tinsley and a staff of five. The corporate name changed to Tinsley Mullen Engineers before it was shortened in 2001 to TME.
Fire protection design and structural design are two of the firm’s newer divisions that complement its mechanical, plumbing and electrical engineering services.
Award-winning work and high-profile projects dot the TME resume, with local efforts that include the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Building in North Little Rock and the Clinton Presidential Library and Heifer International headquarters in downtown Little Rock.
The company has had a hand in $250 million of improvements to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences campus in Little Rock, work that helped save an estimated $1 million in energy costs during the first year alone.
“To see those kinds of bottom-line results has been a very good feather in the cap for us,” Pettit said.
Happy clients have helped build a roster of more than 2,500 projects at more than 1,000 facilities nationally and in Canada, Costa Rica, Ireland, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

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