News from the midwest including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Department of Transportation is offering civil engineering students scholarships of up to $3,125 per semester, and paid employment during summer breaks and upon graduation. Students must…
Live Installation Demos and Outdoor Equipment Exhibitions Planned for Helical Piles-Tiebacks-Anchors Tradeshow and Educational Seminar June 4-5, Cincinnati, Ohio Hawthorne, N.J. – A unique program is planned for the Helical…
Madison, Wis. — The new Hill Farms State Office Building created a more efficient use of shared space by allowing the State of Wisconsin to consolidate seven state agencies, including…
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Department of Transportation is offering civil engineering students scholarships of up to $3,125 per semester, and paid employment during summer breaks and upon graduation. Students must…
Irving, Texas — Fluor Corporation announced that Bridging North America, a partnership of Fluor, ACS Infrastructure Canada and Aecon Group Inc., reached financial close to design, build, finance, operate and…
West Lafayette, Ind. — Purdue Polytechnic faculty are continuing to use automation technology like robotics as the foundation to build toward a better future in the area of construction. Jiansong…
Live Installation Demos and Outdoor Equipment Exhibitions Planned for Helical Piles-Tiebacks-Anchors Tradeshow and Educational Seminar June 4-5, Cincinnati, Ohio Hawthorne, N.J. – A unique program is planned for the Helical…
Madison, Wis. — The new Hill Farms State Office Building created a more efficient use of shared space by allowing the State of Wisconsin to consolidate seven state agencies, including…
Dallas — Jacobs was awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity, Single Award Task Order Contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District for architect and engineer services to…
Indianapolis — Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb and Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Commissioner Joe McGuinness announced that 189 Indiana cities, towns and counties received a combined $115 million in…
Downers Grove, Ill. — The Illinois Tollway’s Chief Engineering Officer Paul Kovacs is a 2019 recipient of the national Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Award in the government category by…
Chicago — On March 14, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel released the New Transportation and Mobility Task Force report, “Roadmap for the Future of Transportation and Mobility in Chicago.” Chaired by…
Columbus, Ohio — The city of Columbus, Ohio, contracted with Woolpert to provide engineering, survey and technical expertise to improve pedestrian access to schools. The project is part of the…
Chicago — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking nominations of qualified candidates who desire to serve as members of EPA’s Great Lakes Advisory Board (GLAB). The GLAB was…
St. Louis — Net Zero, LLC broke ground in January on three display homes for its Saint Louis Park Place residential community within the NorthSide Regeneration development in North St.…
Bismarck, N.D. — The American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) North Dakota Section released the inaugural Report Card for North Dakota’s Infrastructure, giving eight categories of infrastructure an overall grade…
Chicago — Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined the Chicago Department of Aviation in taking the next step forward in selecting a lead architect for O’Hare International Airport’s $8.5 billion expansion. The…
Chicago — Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) announced that the agency has selected a preferred alignment for the Red Line Extension (RLE) — a project that…
St. Paul, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) granted a permit for the Fargo-Moorhead Flood Risk Management Project known as “Plan B.” The permit approval followed the…
Lansing, Mich. — The Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority (MSCA) approved an agreement with Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership to build a multi-use utility tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac. The tunnel…
Chicago — The joint venture (JV) team of Walsh Construction Company and Fluor was selected as the preferred partner to design and build Phase One of the Red and Purple…
St. Paul, Minn. — On Nov. 13, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (Final SEIS) for the Fargo-Moorhead Flood Risk Management project.…
The Wexner Medical Center campus. Photo: The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio — The Ohio State University (OSU) is taking a major step forward with the development of a new…
Freeport, Ill. — Following a distinguished career of nearly 28 years, Fehr Graham announced that Managing Member Todd Weegens is retiring. Weegens joined Fehr Graham in April 1990, as its…
Milwaukee — Developer New Land Enterprises, Korb + Associates Architects, and the Milwaukee office of engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti unveiled the cutting-edge design for a proposed 21-story, 410,000 square-foot, mixed-use…
Des Moines, Iowa — MidAmerican Energy Company plans to build a new wind farm in Poweshiek County. This is the third site in Iowa selected for construction as part of…
Fifteen fully loaded trucks per day typically cross a low-traffic county road bridge. To simulate this, the researchers applied a 32-kip load to the middle of the bridge at a…
St. Paul, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released its draft supplemental environmental impact statement (Draft SEIS) describing the potential environmental and social effects of the revised…
Chicago — Talman Consultants, LLC announced its expansion and move to the landmark Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 W Jackson Boulevard. The firm will occupy 16,917 square feet. …
Ann Arbor, Mich. — The Great Lakes Commission (GLC) announced that nearly $900,000 in grants has been awarded to seven local organizations to reduce the runoff of sediment, nutrients, and…
Loftus Engineers employees on the day the McKim & Creed acquisition was announced. Also included in the photo are McKim & Creed’s CEO, chief people officer, business unit leader and…
Northbrook, Ill. — Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE) opened its new Janney Technical Center (JTC) at the company’s Northbrook, Ill., headquarters. The JTC’s 70,000-square-foot state-of-the-art testing and applied research facility…
West Lafayette, Ind. — Students interested in strengthening their technical skills while acquiring the business background they need to advance in their careers now have an accelerated option at Purdue…
Grand Rapids, Mich. — Ford Motor Company and Grand Rapids are working closely with public stakeholders as well as AT&T, Dell Technologies, Microsoft, PlanetM, and The Right Place to launch…
St. Louis — HOK has been named one of St. Louis’ 2018 Top Workplaces by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The firm placed #19 in the mid-size company category. The honorees…
Detroit — Ford’s Highland Park plant helped create America’s middle class. At Willow Run, Ford workers built the planes and tanks that helped win World War II, setting the stage…
Peoria, Ill. — Gov. Bruce Rauner announced a plan to invest $11.05 billion in the state’s roads and bridges over the next six years, including $2.2 billion of state and…
Photo: Tom Paule Photography St. Louis — KAI Design & Build completed construction of St. Louis’ new $8.5 million Deaconess Center for Child Well-Being — a 21,272-square-foot facility providing meeting…
Chicago — Great Place to Work and FORTUNE have honored Milhouse Engineering & Construction, Inc. as one of the 2018 Best Workplaces in Chicago. This ranking consolidated more than 11,000…
