Recognition
ABES Engineering is a Black-owned engineering and construction company that maintains a focus on excellence in everything we do. ABES has been recognized on the local and national level as a game changer in the entrepreneurial field. Our awards simply highlight our motivation to impact lives and communities as we engineer with soul. We are a certified Minority Business Enterprise in the city of Memphis, TN. With professional engineering licenses in multiple states, we maintain a client-first focus.
ABES Engineering CEO Emmanuel Tuombe was honored at the White House as a Game Changer during the White House’s Entrepreneurs and Innovators Summit.
ABES Engineering was recognized with an Engineering Excellence Award from the ACEC Tennessee in 2024. The award recognized the Gaisman Community Center project in Memphis.
In 2023, ABES Engineering was awarded the Flame Award from Memphis Light, Gas and Water. This award recognizes Minority- and Women-Owned Small Business Enterprizes.
ABES Engineering was named a finalist for the 2022 Robert R. Church Award from the MMBC Continuum in 2022.
ABES Engineering CEO and founder Emmanuel Tuombe was awarded the 2022 Leaders and Legends Award for “Exemplary Leadership in the Memphis Business Community.” This awarded was presented by the City of Memphis Office of Business Diversity & Compliance.
ABES Engineering’s Growth Plan was selected as among the best by The MMBC Continuum, earning the company $5,000 from the Freeman Foundation. The Freeman Foundation was started by Darrell Freeman, founder of Zycron.
CITY OF MEMPHIS MAYOR
JIM STRICKLAND
Memphis Mayor spotlights ABES
Making moves: Since coming into the Mayor’s Office, our administration has been laser-focused on cultivating and growing our minority and women-owned businesses. ABES Engineering is just one of the success stories from our focused efforts.
When Emmanuel Tuombe started ABES, it was a one-man firm. Fast-forward to where they are today, they have twelve employees and are well on their way to expanding the business into Nashville and Louisville. To quote Mr. Tuombe from a speech at one of our symposiums this past July, “I learned how to fish from the City of Memphis and hope to teach other entrepreneurs in Memphis how to fish.”
While we still have work to do, Mr. Tuombe’s story and many others like it are exactly the reason why we created the Office of Business Diversity and Compliance. In the future, I look forward to many more stories just like this one.
Here is the link to the Weekly Update:
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/TNMEMPHIS/bulletins/3312569
Business Can Change Our Community
In June 2022, CEO Emmanuel Tuombe was invited to give a speech at the “We Mean Business Summit,” organized by the Memphis Office of Business Diversity and Compliance.
In his speech, Emmanuel shared his experience working with the City of Memphis 800 Initiative and how mentors in the community “taught him to fish” when it came to growing ABES.
We Are Ready to Serve Our City of Memphis
Nerve-racking moment reading the selection committee decision about our proposal! It was as intense as it gets, and ABES Engineering CEO Emmanuel Tuombe, P.E. and COO Brad Davis, PE invited the team to learn the decision together.
Fantastic news! Among 20 firms, ABES Engineering was selected in 2021 as one of four firms for the City of Memphis On Call Engineering Services for the next FIVE 🖐️ years.
Big milestone for us. We thank the City of Memphis and the City of Memphis Office of Business Diversity and Compliance for their continued support.
It Takes More Than a Village to Build a Successful Business
It takes the village, the City, County, and great partners along the way on the entrepreneurial journey to build a successful business.
We are grateful to the City of Memphis and Shelby County for the support they have provided to ABES to get to where we are today, and we are just getting started. Looking forward to what the future holds for us.
Thank you to all our amazing current partners and supporters. To our future partners and supporters: we can’t wait to connect with you. You are the real deal for us and we appreciate you.
Recognitions
Our team prides itself on delivering quality engineering solutions. Because of this approach, ABES Engineering has been recognized for excellence. The link below provides the full story on one of those honors – when CEO and founder Emmanuel Tuombe made his mark on the most famous house in the United States.
In 2020, Emmanuel was recognized on the local and national level as a game changer in the entrepreneurial field.
April 2018
SBA Emerging Leader
ABES was selected to participate in the Small Business Administration-sponsored program, Emerging Leaders Initiative. The Emerging Leaders Initiative provides free entrepreneurship education and training for ...
Freeman Foundation Award
ABES Engineering was awarded the Vendor of Tomorrow prize in 2017 from the Memphis Minority Business Continuum, which partnered with the Freeman Foundation to recognize ...