Cleaning up our communities is important to Fehr Graham staff. On April 13, several employees from Fehr Graham's Champaign office spent the morning cleaning up around the St. Joe drainage ditch in Urbana as part of the 14th annual Boneyard Creek Community Day. Boneyard Creek Community Day brings groups together to cl...
There was more to celebrate in Catlin today than the announcement of a $10.3 million project to improve the Village’s aging Wastewater Treatment Plant. And that was how the project will be funded. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development office approved an $8 million loan and a $2.3 million grant to reduce the ...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, announced today the promotion of Matt Smith to CAD Manager. Smith was promoted from Associate Engineering Technician to CAD Manager. He works in Fehr Graham’s Freeport, Illinois, office. Smith’s been with Fehr Graham for nine years. He works on a variety of environment...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, announced today that Bob Frey received a professional certification in computer-aided design. Frey took the Autodesk Professional Certification exam in August and received his certification in September. He works in Fehr Graham’s Rockford office. “Completing this certificatio...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm with an office in Champaign, has joined forces with Phoenix Consulting Engineers. Phoenix Consulting Engineers was formed in Mahomet in 2010 by Tom Overmyer, a professional engineer with more than 29 years of experience in municipal engineering and land surveying. Overmyer employed s...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, announced today the promotion of Matt Dahlem as Branch Manager. Dahlem was promoted from Project Manager to oversee the day-to-day operations of the firm’s downtown Sheboygan, Wisconsin, office. Dahlem will continue to serve Fehr Graham clients throughout Wisconsin while...
The City of Coggon, Iowa, was under an administrative consent order from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to make its trickling filter wastewater treatment plant compliant with the City’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit. The City’s treatment system exceeded biochemical oxygen demand, E. coli, and ammonia limits. ...
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...
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...
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...
Fehr Graham, a leading Midwest engineering and environmental firm, announced today the promotion of Dillon Plamann to project hydrogeologist. Plamann was promoted to project hydrogeologist. He works in Fehr Graham's Sheboygan office. "We are thrilled with Dillon's growth since joining Fehr Graham," said Joel Zirkle, one of t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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
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...
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...
