BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Farnsworth Group, a national engineering, architecture, and survey firm, announces the hiring of Charles Keefer, AIA, NCARB, as a principal of the firm. Keefer will assume responsibility to further advance the firm’s collective focus of achieving successful projects through careful planning, effective communication, efficient execution and collaborative teamwork.

Keefer is a licensed architect with more than 20 years of experience leading multi-disciplined engineering and architecture project teams. He graduated from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, earning a Bachelor of Architecture degree. He later obtained an MBA from the University of Charleston. Throughout his career, Charles has served in multiple roles guiding multi-discipline project teams while developing best practices and programs for project management and execution.