Engineering Technician J'Sondra Veracini hired
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of J’Sondra Veracini as an Engineering Technician.  Veracini started with Fehr Graham as an intern in May and earned a full-time position with the firm in its Rochelle, Illinois, office. She works with engineers to develop design plans using co...
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Matt Schroeder named president of Federation of Environmental Technologists Northeast Wisconsin Chapter
 Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is proud to announce that Matt Schroeder is the new president of the Federation of Environmental Technologists Northeast Wisconsin Chapter. Schroeder, who joined Fehr Graham in 2016, works in the firm’s Sheboygan office. He serves the firm as a project manager in the environme...
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Hispanic Cheese Makers set the bar for sustainability in Kent, Illinois
Hispanic Cheese Makers’ wastewater lagoons are a big project, but a small part of the company’s overall sustainability goal. Read more about how Fehr Graham client Hispanic Cheese Makers looked at its discharge and how it could be a source of sustainability for the surrounding community. For Kent, Illinois, Hispanic Cheese Makers- Nuestro...
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Fehr Graham celebrates move to Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, celebrated its relocation from Plymouth to 909 N. Eighth St. in downtown Sheboygan today. About 30 guests – local dignitaries, neighbors and clients – toured the office and learned more about Fehr Graham. “Our new office has brought us closer to local architects, developers and...
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Rockford Water, Fehr Graham featured in APWA Reporter magazine
The City of Rockford Water Division and Fehr Graham's public-private partnership was featured in the latest edition of APWA Reporter magazine.  City officials began working with Fehr Graham in 2016 when the municipality sought engineering services to better serve the Rockford community and to fulfill promises made as part of the proposal to in...
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Engineer Ryan Rembert hired
  Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is proud to announce the hiring of Ryan Rembert as an engineer. Rembert assists with planning, designing and bidding of civil infrastructure projects for Fehr Graham’s public and private clients. He also helps with administration and construction observation.  “Ryan is e...
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Engineer Brock Sutton hired
   Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of Brock Sutton as an engineer.   Sutton joins the team in Fehr Graham’s Rochelle office. Sutton observes construction projects and focuses on municipal and private-sector projects. He also develops design engineering plans an...
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Project Assistant Dawn Pontius hired
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of Dawn Pontius as a Project Assistant.  Pontius handles incoming and outgoing communication, maintains company data and serves as point person for all required administrative policies and procedures requirements for the firm’s Freeport branch....
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Jeff Jacobson: Finding balance at work, in life
In the June edition of The Voice, the monthly publication of the Rockford Chamber of Commerce, Jeff Jacobson shares his tips on balancing work and life. Jacobson is a designer at Fehr Graham. Jeff Jacobson writes for Th... by Fehr Graham
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Rockford, South Beloit awarded Environmental Protection Agency grants for cleanup efforts
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...
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Grant to help Dubuque, Iowa, clean up brownfield sites
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...
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Emergency structural evaluation for fire damaged apartment building
On Saturday, April 28, Fehr Graham received a phone call from client Green Street Realty concerning an apartment building at 609 S. Randolph Street in Champaign, Illinois. The building that had caught fire the night before. We immediately called Fehr Graham owner and Structural Engineer Matt Johnson, who was in Champaign at his kid's soccer game, t...
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National Surveyors Week: Choose a career in land surveying
One question on his way home from school changed Nick Grindey's career path. For National Surveyors Week, the Fehr Graham surveyor wrote a column published in the Rockford (Illinois) Register Star and The Journal-Standard of Freeport, Illinois, about the reasons why he chose surveying for his career.  Digital versionsRockford Register StarThe ...
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Street construction begins in South Beloit, Illinois
  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...
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National Engineers Week: Nudge a future engineer
  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.&...
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Darin Stykel promoted to Project Manager
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, announced the promotion of Darin Stykel to project manager. Stykel was promoted from senior engineering technician at the beginning of the year. Stykel, who works in the firm's Freeport office, will provide management for the firm's clients on several municipal and private projects....
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Environmental Health and Safety Specialist Coleton Lewis hired
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of Coleton Lewis as an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist. Lewis earned a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sustainability from Viterbo University in La Crosse. We look forward to strengthening our environmental and safety compliance with C...
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Matthew Johnson joins ownership group
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is proud to announce the addition of Matthew Johnson to the ownership team. Johnson will continue his day-to-day duties managing the firm’s Champaign office. Johnson, who joined Fehr Graham in 2014, leads a team of professionals who have successfully completed significant civil and ...
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Helping with bridge inspections in Iroquois County
When District 3 engineers needed more personnel to meet state and federal government requirements for National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS), they turned to Fehr Graham. Mary Coombe Bloxdorf, a structural engineer with Fehr Graham, has performed NBIS inspections for Livingston and Grundy counties since 1996. Several counties and the Illinois D...
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Nate Kass joins ownership group
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, is proud to announce the addition of Nate Kass to the ownership team. Kass will continue managing the firm’s Cedar Rapids office. In 2013, Kass joined Fehr Graham, where he focuses on leading projects that make the quality of life better in the Cedar Rapids area. He worked with the ...
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