eople, projects and purpose is the motto of Gateway Engineers, now celebrating its 70th year. Nearly 25 of those years have been spent working on hundreds of projects in Mt. Lebanon.

“Working in Mt. Lebanon is such a joy because the staff there is such a professional staff and they’re all highly motivated and really competent in their jobs,” said Dan Deiseroth, Virginia Manor, Gateway Engineers President Emeritus and Mt. Lebanon municipal engineer. “That’s something that really makes our job easier.”

“There are numerous advantages to having Gateway as our municipal engineers,” said Mt. Lebanon Municipal Manager Keith McGill. “Gateway has a wealth of institutional knowledge about Mt. Lebanon. Acquiring the prior municipal engineering firm, Vegeler-Ramsey, provided them with over 50 years of records for projects and engineering work performed in the municipality.”

As a Project Focused Organization (PFO), Gateway Engineers assigns an individual project manager who has full responsibility for scope, schedule, budget and client satisfaction.

Vibrant Uptown, a comprehensive refresh of Washington Road, featuring new sidewalks,  seating, planter islands,  lighting,  street trees and landscape plantings and improved ADA accessibility, was one of Gateway’s recent achievements.

When Deiseroth visits Uptown, he enjoys seeing people sitting on the seat walls outside various establishments. “It’s very satisfying to see things that you’ve worked on that people are using in the way you intended them to be used,” he said.

Gateway Engineers prides itself on being locally owned. “Dan Deiseroth is a Mt. Lebanon resident so he is truly vested in providing an extremely high level of service to the municipality,” McGill pointed out.

In addition to Vibrant Uptown, over the years Gateway Engineers has been involved with multiple projects at both Mt. Lebanon Park and the recreation center, as well as the north and south parking garages. The company has worked on paddle tennis courts, the ice rink, the public safety center and the turf on Wildcat Field, now called Clint Seymour Field.

Gateway is also focusing on rebuilding Mt. Lebanon’s aging infrastructure, through its work on sanitary sewers and storm sewers as well as the annual street reconstruction.

With more than 200 employees, Gateway Engineers is now in its third generation of ownership. While many businesses fail in that span of time, Deiseroth credits Gateway’s leadership over the years for the firm’s success.

“We’re ready for the next 20 years,” he said.