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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, ...

The Pleasant View Road Reconstruction Project earned a 2025 American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Wisconsin Engineering Excellence State Finalist Award. The 1.4-mile Pleasant View Road corridor, a key north-south route in Madison and Middleton, Wisconsin, has undergone a major transformation to enhance safety, connectivity, and sustainability. Serving roughly 13,000 vehicles daily, the corridor faced congestion, deteriorating pavement, and ...

The Bittersweet Water Reclamation Facility Improvements project received a Public Works Project of the Year Award in the Environmental category $25 million to $75 million from the American Public Works Association (APWA) Chicago Metro Chapter – Suburban Branch. The facility, located in the Village of Bartlett, Illinois, was built in 1971. It required significant upgrades to address aging infrastructure, convoluted ...

The Decatur County Highway Department project was awarded a 2025 Engineering Excellence Merit Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Indiana. Located in Greensburg, Indiana, the Decatur County Highway Department had outgrown its original 3.5-acre facility, which was built in 1949. Without modern facilities, the highway department struggled to upkeep its equipment fleet. The new highway department ...

Innovation Parkway in the City of Georgetown, Indiana, is a recipient of an American Council of Engineering (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 space ...

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 Water System Expansion project in the Village of Lannon was the recipient of the APWA 2024 National Project of the Year Award for Small Cities/Rural Communities in the Historical Restoration/Preservation category. This project was initiated when the Village of Lannon was contacted by Lannon Elementary School which reported E. coli contamination in its private water supply well. To provide ...

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 ...

The West Jackson Street Reconstruction Project earned a 2024 American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Wisconsin Engineering Excellence State Finalist Award. The existing corridor was last constructed in the 1970s and needed upgrading. The City of Wisconsin Rapids hired Strand Associates, Inc.® to work with staff, WisDOT, and the public to design the project to address the replacement of ...

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 project has been awarded the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Wisconsin Engineering Excellence Grand Award. In a partnership with HNTB, a dynamic part-time shoulder use facility – also referred to as the Flex Lane – was implemented on the Madison Beltline. The Flex Lane is open to users during peak travel times and during ...

The $103 million, Lick Run Valley Conveyance System and Greenway project, which is one of the largest green infrastructure projects for reducing combined sewer overflows (CSO) in the country, has been awarded an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) National Innovation in Sustainable Engineering award. This is the third national award the Lick Run project has won. Components of this ...

The Star City Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) Improvements Project in the City of Morgantown, West Virginia, has been awarded an American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) National Engineering Excellence Recognition Award.  We identified and evaluated long-term combined sewer overflow (CSO) control options to meet the needs of the aging Star City WWTP, address wet-weather operational issues, and reduce sanitary sewer ...

The Hite Creek Water Quality Treatment Center Expansion Project has been awarded an American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) National Engineering Excellence Recognition Award.  The Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) had goals of expanding treatment capacity, accommodating future growth, and eliminating sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) by expanding its Hite Creek Water Quality Treatment Center (WQTC). Expansion of ...