The West and Southwest Stormwater Management Program in Winnetka, Illinois, has been awarded an APWA National Small Cities/Rural Communities Public Works Project of the Year Award in the Environment category. The Village of Winnetka has a long, documented history of flooding, dating back to the early 1900s. With more than 85 percent of the community built without stormwater management, the ...

The Southeast Area Combined Sewer Improvements (SEACSI) project in Shorewood, Wisconsin, has been awarded an APWA National Project of the Year Award for the Cities/Rural Communities – Disaster or Emergency Construction/Repair.  The Village of Shorewood is currently served by both combined and separated sewer collection systems and is one of only three remaining communities in Wisconsin with combined sewers. Much ...

In April 2024, the Village of Plainfield discovered a hole in the 127th Street Bridge over the DuPage River, prompting an urgent closure and a rapid response to minimize community disruption and costs. Our team assisted in developing a Bridge Condition Report, estimating repairs at $1.59 million. The project was ultimately awarded $1.35 million, allowing the Village to incorporate additional ...

The Downtown Plaza “The Naberhood” Project in Shawano, Wisconsin, has been awarded an ACEC WI State Finalist Award. Faced with a declining historic downtown marked by vacant lots and struggling businesses, the City of Shawano launched a Downtown Master Plan to restore vibrancy and community engagement. A cornerstone of the plan was the creation of a downtown plaza, realized through ...

The West and Southwest Stormwater Management Program in Winnetka, Illinois, has been awarded the ACEC IL Special Achievement Award. The Village of Winnetka has a long, documented history of flooding, dating back to the early 1900s. With more than 85 percent of the community built without stormwater management, when the village was hit with historic rainfall events in 2008, 2011, ...

Innovation Parkway in the City of Georgetown, Indiana, is a recipient of an American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) 2025 Engineering Excellence Merit Award! This project provides smooth access to the NovaParke Technology Center, a boom for the County’s development. The team created innovative solutions to address connectivity and provide utilities for future park expansion while working within exceedingly limited ...

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve officially broken ground on new office space in Ames, Iowa, in the Iowa State University Research Park. This exciting expansion is a significant milestone following our 2022 acquisition of FOX Engineering and reflects our continued commitment to providing excellence in engineering to clients in the region. The two-story facility will initially house 70 employees ...

This award recognizes the exemplary achievements of the City of Frankfort, Kentucky, and its partners. The City of Frankfort and its partners fully redesigned and reconstructed Second Street to improve its accessibility and usability for vulnerable road users. The design included enhanced accessible pedestrian areas, sidewalks and plazas, traffic signalization, and other key landscaped areas and streetscape elements, such as ...

The $103 million Lick Run Valley Conveyance System and Greenway project is one of the largest green infrastructure projects in the country for reducing combined sewer overflows (CSO). This 1.5-mile corridor provides watershed management, flood control, stormwater conveyances, storage and reuse, and water quality treatment, all integrated into an open channel and civic park complementing the South Fairmont neighbor's historical ...

The Downtown Plaza “The Naberhood” Project in Shawano, Wisconsin, has been awarded an APWA National Public Works Project of the Year Award for Small Cities/Rural Communities. In 2017, the City of Shawano began discussing the creation of a plaza-type space in the downtown area. At the time, the City was redeveloping Franklin Park, one block west of Main Street, into ...

The Bee Branch Creek Railroad Culvert and Pedestrian Tunnel Project in the City of Dubuque, Iowa, has been awarded an American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) 2024 National Engineering Excellence Recognition Award. The City of Dubuque has a history of localized storms that send stormwater rushing off steep bluffs to lowland areas where it then slows, eventually making its way ...

Strand’s Columbus, Ohio, office has moved locations! Still in the heart of downtown, our new office is at the corner of Neil Avenue and Vine Street, where we have doubled our office space to accommodate our growing staff. As we have expanded our engineering services to Ohio communities since 2002, we have likewise expanded our office space multiple times. Our ...

The $73 million Madison Beltline Flex Lane project was recently recognized by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) with a regional America’s Transportation Award for operations excellence. In its 16th year, the America’s Transportation Awards competition, which is sponsored by AASHTO, AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, honors projects and programs that make our communities ...

The Madison Beltline Flex Lane (Flex Lane) Project was awarded the Intelligent Transportation Society of Wisconsin’s 2022 Project of the Year Award, which recognizes quality projects or initiatives based in the State of Wisconsin that leverage technology to enhance transportation mobility, safety, and economic activity. This project involved significant Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) improvements between US 18/151/Verona Road and I-39/90. ...

The City of Marshalltown, Iowa, wanted to take advantage of a funding program through the State Revolving Fund that required a watershed assessment of a community’s water quality needs. When funding was approved, the City chose to move forward with the South 1st Street Parking Lot Improvements Project. The parking lot was transformed using more than 1,130 square yards of ...

The Kenosha Water Utility’s Water Production Plant installed its original 14 million gallons per day (MGD) membrane filtration plant in the early 2000s, one of the first and largest municipal membrane filtration systems of its type in the country. After more than 20 years since initial start-up, most of the existing membrane filtration equipment had reached the end of its ...

We have been working with the Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District on improvements to the Hite Creek Water Quality Treatment Center since 2012. Our work began with a Regional Wastewater Facility Plan that set the stage for two major capital projects. The first involved hydraulic improvements to expand treatment capacity from 6 MGD to 9 MGD average daily ...

The Lick Run Greenway and Valley Conveyance System project was awarded second place in the National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management Agencies (NAFSMA)’s 2022 Innovative Projects Awards. This award is new this year and highlights innovative community flood risk and stormwater and water quality management projects across the country. Click here to read more about the Lick Run Greenway ...

The Ravinia Avenue Roundabout project in the village of Orland Park, Illinois, was featured in the August 2022 edition of American Public Works Association’s Reporter magazine. The Village’s first roundabout replaced a four-way stop controlled intersection that served as the main entrance to its Village Hall Complex. The roundabout design met the Village’s goals of increased safety, capacity, and access. ...

Since 1995, the Federal Highway Administration’s Environmental Excellence Awards have recognized leaders across the country who make outstanding contributions to environmental stewardship and partnerships above and beyond traditional transportation project outcomes. In 2022, the Town Branch Commons Corridor project was one of only 14 projects across the nation to receive this award. The Town Branch Commons Corridor is a transformative ...