Lewis EDC Member Highlight: Moerke Delivers Properly-Rounded Expertise to Centralia’s Exodus Engineering
By The Lewis Financial Growth Council
The subsequent content material was generated by the Lewis Economic Improvement Council, which publishes a particular section in The Chronicle month-to-month.
As owner and president of his have small business Exodus Engineering based in Centralia, Luke Moerke have to like to maintain active with a lengthy listing of initiatives. He also oversees his family’s 200-acre forestry farm in Adna and lots of household responsibilities.
“I like the design and style portion, I like dilemma-fixing,” Moerke explained of his qualified responsibilities.
Exodus Engineering is at present performing on basis style and design with the NW Sports activities Hub in Centralia and its 29,500-square-foot growth, which will make The Hub the greatest indoor amatuer sports activities venue in the state.
The business, with 4 engineer specialists and a overall of seven workers on the payroll, focuses on each household and business assignments. Moerke features more than 14 a long time of working experience.
Exodus Engineering performs gentle-body household, industrial constructions, retaining partitions and metallic building foundations. They function with each massive and modest assignments, from significant industrial properties to serving to the property owner with simple engineering style and design.
His household know-how includes new construction, renovations, additions, shops, barns, hangers and web page ideas. His business facet of the enterprise consists of new design, tenant improvements and building modifications.
He performs drafting and structure for each household and industrial. For household custom made properties programs and drafting, he commenced that part of his enterprise two decades back when desire was nonstop.
“I got fatigued of stating ‘no,’” he claimed.
Moerke acquired a bachelor’s diploma in mechanical engineering from Central Washington University adopted by earning a license in civil engineering. Before that, he worked for the family business enterprise — Moerke & Sons Pump & Drilling — which was initially commenced by his grandfather, then directed by his father and mom. His dad pointed him to mechanical engineering, as there was a have to have for the loved ones enterprise to deliver pumps and drinking water program styles.
“Dad said, ‘You really should seem into that,’” Moerke mentioned.
The next content was manufactured by the Lewis Financial Growth Council, which publishes a unique area in The Chronicle every month.
Just after university graduation, Moerke worked for Pacific Northwest Engineering in Tacoma until 2012. He started out Exodus Engineering in 2012 to be nearer to his Adna roots and the relatives forestry farm positioned in the Curtis-Boistfort location.
Moerke’s grandfather worked in logging, and partnered with numerous homesteaders in the Adna spot, buying timber tracts together the way. Moerke’s dad managed the timberland. Moerke took in excess of the spouse and children responsibilities overseeing the timber. He took forestry stewardship classes and became accredited in household forestry arranging.
As significantly as spouse and children lifetime, Moerke appreciates being able to do the job the family forestry farm in Adna with his 6 boys, two of whom he adopted as siblings out of Haiti.
“Working on the tree farm helps harmony me,” Moerke explained, including that it allows him get out from at the rear of the desk at operate.
The loved ones rides filth bikes and is effective the land collectively, as very well as put in time searching. He reported God laid the adoption into the hearts of Moerke and his spouse. He also is scheduling, with a group of Christian believers to uncovered a Reform church in the Lewis County space. It’s not stunning, he selected the Biblical time period “Exodus” for his company.
“We’re builder helpful and acceptable, still fulfill the creating codes,” he explained. “We operate with the builders and developers, and we can identify tiny improvements that from time to time can help you save lots of money, or option materials or approaches that can preserve design time or labor.”
