Projects in Rockford, Illinois, like Colman Village (pictured above), Embassy Suites and the UW Health Sports Factory benefited from funding from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants. The cities of Rockford and South Beloit were each awarded $300,000 EPA Community-wide Assessment Grants, which will help fund assessments of brownfield s...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the city of Dubuque, Iowa, a grant to help the community address brownfield sites. The $800,000 Multipurpose, Assessment and Cleanup Grant will help Dubuque expand, redevelop or reuse properties where there could be hazardous contaminants. City officials hope to target the downtown di...
The City of South Beloit, Stenstrom Excavation & Blacktop Group and Fehr Graham began construction on Blackhawk Boulevard, Oak Grove Avenue and Donor Drive today in South Beloit, Illinois. A groundbreaking ceremony kicked off the road and sidewalk improvements, intersection signals, and stormwater systems to facilitate tra...
For National Engineers Week, Mick Gronewold stressed in a column published in the Rockford (Illinois) Register Star and The Journal-Standard of Freeport, Illinois, the importance of growing young peoples' interests in science, technology, engineering and math. Doing so may just help develop future engineers, who make our communities better.&...
The Allamakee County Driftless Area Education and Visitors Center in Lansing, Iowa, was designed and built on land formed more than 12,500 years ago as a tribute to the unique land, water and history surrounding it. Fehr Graham handled all aspects of civil engineering and project coordination on the building, which opened to the public in 20...
Fehr Graham’s Ryan Wicks accepted the Inspiring Iowan Award at the inaugural IA Magazine launch party on Oct. 2. Award nominees must have a creative impact, give back and contribute to economic health. Wicks was nominated for leading Manchester’s Good to Great Program, which operates on the premise that “good” is not enough for the 21st Centur...
It was a gorgeous day to clean up River Park in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. About 50 volunteers showed up April 28 to replace the landscape borders around the playground, mulch the many trees in the park, and pick up trash and litter at the River Park Earth Day Cleanup event sponsored by Fehr Graham. It wasn’t just a day to wor...
"Passing by projects every day" is the best part of being an engineer, said Fehr Graham's Mick Gronewold, owner and professional engineer. Gronewold was interviewed by 23 WIFR during National Engineers Week 2018 at the Mercyhealth Rockford campus.
The cold didn’t keep 19 Fehr Graham employees and their family members from removing more than five cubic yards of trash from the Urbana/St. Joe drainage ditch on Boneyard Creek Community Day on April 7. “Our team really cares about the community in which they live and work,” said Michelle Brown, Boneyard Creek Community Day Marketing Chairwoman an...
"Passing by projects every day" is the best part of being an engineer, said Fehr Graham's Mick Gronewold, owner and professional engineer. Gronewold was interviewed by 23 WIFR during National Engineers Week 2018 at the Mercyhealth Rockford campus.
In the March 2018 edition of xyHt magazine, Fehr Graham Survey Manager Scott Immel describes how monitoring improved construction processes for the replacement of an 85-year-old bridge connecting Illinois and Iowa. The Savanna-Sabula truss bridge, named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, opened to traffic in 1932. In the early 201...
In the May 2018 edition of Road & Bridges magazine, Fehr Graham Survey Manager Scott Immel describes how monitoring improved construction processes for the replacement of an 85-year-old bridge connecting Illinois and Iowa allowed crews to work more accurately – in real-time, to be exact. The Savanna-Sabula truss bridge, named to the National Re...
In late spring, 19 acres on the west side of West Branch, Iowa, will begin its transformation from green space to a multiuse park designed by Fehr Graham engineers and landscape architects. Cubby Park will be home to two Little League baseball fields, one softball diamond, one pickleball court, one playground and walking trails. Infrastructure to s...
Furst-McNess Co. and Fehr Graham were awarded a 2018 ACEC-IL Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Illinois. Furst-McNess hired Fehr Graham to clean up one of its properties, the former WEK Holdings site, in Freeport, Illinois. The effort won a Merit Award in a new nomination category – Environment...
Six students from West Delaware High School and South Winneshiek High School hit the road to visit Fehr Graham's Manchester, Iowa, office. The students met with our engineering, global information systems and project support teams. Brian McWilliams and Tyler Olson, engineers, took the students to visit a few sites. The...
Fehr Graham was awarded two 2018 ACEC-Iowa Engineering Excellence Awards from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Iowa. The Allamakee County Driftless Area Education and Visitors Center in Lansing, Iowa, was awarded the prestigious Honor Award. The building, adjacent to the Mississippi River, is a tribute to the unique land, wat...
This evening, Fehr Graham hosted its annual Illinois Municipal League Client Appreciation Reception at London House in Chicago. For the last two decades, Fehr Graham has celebrated its Illinois municipal clients the week of the Illinois Municipal League tradeshow. "What's great about hosting our partner communities at the reception ...
Americold is an international provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure and supply chain solutions, with a warehouse in Rochelle, Illinois. Americold recruited Fehr Graham to help with civil design for its cold storage warehouse expansion. Truck and employee entry is being improved with a new access point, parking lot and truck drop. ...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, today announced that is has relocated to a new office space located in the heart of the Corridor at 200 5th Avenue SE. The move was effective on Dec. 16. “As we continue to grow in the Cedar Rapids metro market, we are excited to move to a building that will accommodate our growing ...
