Roy Jorgensen
As the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s Chief Engineer, Roy Jorgensen established the basic units of work and highway maintenance standards to be used by his workforce in 1950. After successfully implementing his approach to maintenance management in his home state, he saw how he could add value to other transportation and founded Roy Jorgensen Associates in 1961.
Starting as a consulting and training firm, Jorgensen provided service to clients both domestically and internationally. Jorgensen continued to in 1972 the National Cooperative Highway Research Program published refine his maintenance management approach, and his landmark research project, “Performance Budgeting System for Highway Maintenance Management”. In this project, Roy Jorgensen revealed the basic principles from which modern maintenance management concepts have evolved worldwide.
In addition to successfully providing consulting services to a diverse group of clients, Jorgensen began performing “hands-on” maintenance management as a contractor in 1975.
In all, Jorgensen has developed leading-edge consulting solutions and implemented contract maintenance services for hundreds of public and private infrastructure owners.
Today the firm continues to build and modify the original maintenance management concepts developed by Roy Jorgensen and now employs nearly 300 associates in over 30 locations around the world.
