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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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...
