Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is proud to announce the hiring of Aaron Thomson as a Senior Engineering Technician. Thomson, who works in the firm's Freeport, Illinois, office, is experienced in construction management. He ensures design specifications are met during construction for municipal clients and private...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is proud to announce the hiring of Megan Kaufmann as an Engineer. Kaufmann works on water and wastewater infrastructure projects. She also works on street reconstruction projects and writes reports. Kaufmann earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering from the University...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is proud to announce the hiring of Sean Burst as an Engineer. Burst completes site designs for wastewater treatment plants using hydraulic and hydrologic analysis. He collects data to secure environmental permits. Burst earned a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Southern I...
Fehr Graham helped the Freeport Park District secure a $200,000 grant to create an expansive bike path at Krape Park. This is one of 13 community projects getting money from a pool of $2,161,000 in Illinois Bicycle Path Grant Program funding to help communities develop and improve 13 local bike paths across Illinois. Bicycle path projects are excel...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is proud to announce the hiring of Lane To as an Engineer. To designs wastewater treatment processes for new plants and improvements to aging facilities for municipal clients, and brings experience in environmental engineering, sustainability and quantitative research. To earned a b...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is proud to announce the hiring of Meera Athiappan as an Engineer. Athiappan uses CAD to design wastewater treatment plants. She also collects data to meet permitting requirements. Athiappan earned a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, announced the promotion of Naren Patel, PE, PMP, to Senior Project Manager. Patel, who works in the firm's Champaign, Illinois, office, was promoted from Project Manager to Senior Project Manager. He will continue to serve Fehr Graham clients throughout central and northern Illinois...
Ellis Golf Course continues to make waves in the world of design and recognition. The course, at 401 Zika Drive NW in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been racking up awards since its grand opening in July 2022. The latest comes from Metal Architecture, a monthly publication distributed across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The magazine featured the clubhouse...
On its 50th anniversary, Fehr Graham held an event for staff and special guests at its Freeport office, 101 W. Stephenson St., in the City in which the leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm was founded. Fehr Graham Chief Executive Officer Mick Gronewold announced a recurring scholarship program aimed to help students pursuing post-seco...
Today on its 50th anniversary in business, Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, announces a scholarship program to help students pursuing post-secondary degrees in STEM-related fields. Firm leaders shared the scholarship news with employees at a 50th anniversary event in Freeport, the City where Fehr Graham started on ...
Joe Graham, co-founder of Fehr Graham, was known for his meticulous approach and zest for work. His passing on Sept. 9 at age 96 marks the end of an era that dawned when he and Allen Fehr started Fehr Graham, an engineering and environmental firm, in 1973. As the firm stands on the cusp of celebrating its 50th anniversary on Sept. 15, Graham's lega...
Freeport's state-of-the-art water treatment plant and new Well No. 11, a project costing $13 million and eight years in the making, are now operational. The plant, designed by Fehr Graham, uses corrosion-resistant materials and is expected to have a 100-year lifespan. The decision to upgrade the water treatment facilities was prompted by the 2015 d...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, announced the promotion of Eric Adkins to Associate Engineering Technician. Adkins, who works in the firm's Champaign office, specializes in structural designs and drawings. He uses drafting software for conceptual exhibits and topographic, water main and technical design projects. ...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is proud to announce the hiring of Sam Flessner as an Engineer. Flessner is focused on wastewater process engineering. He designs wastewater treatment plants and collects data for Combined Sewer Overflows. He also manages flow monitoring projects, conducts hydraulic analyses and pro...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is proud to announce the hiring of Titus Williamson as a Survey Technician. Williamson is responsible for completing topographic surveys and documenting an as-built design once a project is completed. He shares project information with clients, site managers, contractors and municip...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, announced that Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Scientist Marie Dinwiddie passed the Associate Safety Professional (ASP) exam to earn the designation of Associate Safety Professional by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals. As part of the requirement to become certified,...
Fehr Graham's Lead Transportation Engineer Noah Carmichael, PE, shares the benefits and considerations of roundabouts and discusses traffic solutions in the July/August issue of Roads & Bridges magazine. Despite the initial complexity for drivers, roundabouts have gained popularity because of their effectiveness in enhancing traffic flow and sa...
Fehr Graham helped the City of Morrison secure a $1,271,782 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) aimed at bolstering public Infrastructure. Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Housing and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced the selection of 54 projects to receive a collective sum of $56.9 million. Morrison City Administrator Brian...
Ottawa City Council members approved plans to purchase property to construct a wastewater treatment plant. Without the new plant, it could limit Ottawa's potential for growth. The engineering firm explained well why we need this. Without this expansion, it could limit our potential growth as the city is actively pursuing businesses to come to our i...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of Cali Lensmire as a Hydrogeologist. Lensmire contributes to several environmental projects, including Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments, fieldwork and reporting. She is learning more about construction oversight. Lensmire is a former F...
