Integrity. Insight. Innovation. In Every Project. In Every Community. In Everything We Do.

Since 1956, these words have guided the professional development of Thompson & Litton. Our visionary founders, William A. Thompson, Jr. and John W. Litton, built their engineering practice on rock-solid principles reflecting and honoring the character of the rugged, individualistic people of Southwestern Virginia. The partners’ first projects served the region’s vital coal industry. Over the next 50 plus years, hundreds of different type projects and clients helped Thompson & Litton expand its services and practice with the firm active today in five Mid-Atlantic States.

The Thompson & Litton organization and its original staff of seven people has grown to more than 130 employees in seven offices, offering a broad array of consulting engineering, environmental, architectural, surveying, planning and construction services. Since its earliest days, Thompson & Litton has emphasized serving its clients by producing quality work by committed people. Bill Thompson often underscored that dedication by noting that “Firms don’t design projects. People do.” Today at Thompson & Litton, we continue our founders’ philosophy by recruiting and maintaining qualified professionals and providing proper resources of equipment, software, and continuing education to ensure their success.

Client needs and wishes have been the guiding force in our firm’s development. We were founded on the principle that we exist to serve our clients as together we improve the built environment. We have grown because we listen and respond to the needs of our communities and our clients. At T&L, we are committed to being our clients’ partners in serving their stakeholders and doing so in a spirit of mutual trust and respect.

We believe that spectacular things can happen when an organization opens its mind to hear what the people they serve have to say. Our customers tell us how to serve them better. They want to work with good people, professionally and ethically. We deliver. They said the future would demand bold, creative solutions and an increased emphasis on the world around us. We listened and adapted. Our clients themselves are leaders and innovators. Taking their advice to heart is one of the foundational cornerstones on which Thompson & Litton’s professional practice has been built and is an equally important factor in our success. As our clients diversify, we step up to each new challenge with evolving capabilities of our own to meet their needs, working together to achieve a mutual goal for a better-built environment.

Thompson & Litton serves its five-state Mid-Atlantic client base from offices in Wise, Radford, Clintwood, Tazewell, Chilhowie, and Buchanan County, Virginia, and in Bristol, Tennessee, with a professional and support staff of architects, engineers, surveyors, land-use planners, construction administrators, grant/financing specialists, and other support personnel.