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GeoEngineers is part of the design and construction team for the first project outside of the US to receive certification from the Greenroads Foundation, a nonprofit organization that manages certification reviews for roadway and bridge projects using its Greenroads Rating System, a sustainability-rating system for roadway design and construction. The project, Canada’s South Fraser Perimeter […]

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Washington awarded GeoEngineers and our project partners, Jacobs and SDA, the 2015 Transportation Gold Award for our work on the reconstruction of Washington State Route (SR) 530 after the Oso Landslide. The  catastrophic landslide on March 22, 2014, near Oso, Washington, flowed thousands of feet across the Stillaguamish […]

GeoEngineers Principal Geotechnical Engineer Shaun Stauffer, PE, LEED® AP will give a keynote presentation on February 16 at the Geosynthetics 2015 Conference in Portland, Oregon about the reconstruction of Washington State Route (SR) 530 after the Oso Landslide. The  catastrophic landslide on March 22, 2014, near Oso, Washington, flowed thousands of feet across the Stillaguamish […]

The Seattle Post of The Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) awarded its 2014 Small Business Design Excellence Gold Award to a fish passage design project that GeoEngineers partnered on for the US Navy. The award is the top honor in its category and recognizes the fish passage project’s contributions to improve operations of the Navy, the […]

GeoEngineers Principal Engineer David Eley, PE is co-presenting this week at the ASCE International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure with Russ Joffrion, PE of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA). Their presentation, “Working with the Mississippi River for Sustainable Storm Protection,” discusses the causes contributing to the loss of land along the Louisiana coastline, […]

It is with extreme sadness we share the news that GeoEngineers Principal Scientist Lisa Berntsen died recently while trekking at high altitude in Nepal. She was 49 years old. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on November 22, 2014 at Fox Alliance Church (655 6th Ave. FI, Fox Island, WA 98333). Lisa started her […]

Senior Geologist Garrett Leque, LG of our Tacoma office received Downtown On the Go’s 2014 Advocacy Award. The annual award recognizes a business or individual who made a difference for downtown Tacoma through transportation advocacy at the local, state or federal level. “Garrett has been a key organizer for our Bike Committee. He has taken […]

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently awarded GeoEngineers Board Member William A. (Bill) Wallace, ENV SP, M.ASCE the President’s Medal at its 2014 Global Engineering Conference in Panama City, Panama. The award is given out annually at the discretion of ASCE’s president to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of eminent engineers to the […]

Researching the ownership, acreage and use of public lands in Washington state just got easier thanks to a new online, interactive map of natural resource and recreation lands. GeoEngineers’ technology-development team built the map for the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) after the state Legislature tasked the agency in 2013 to provide an […]

Engineering News Record (ENR) recently published their annual list of the top 500 design firms in the country by revenue. GeoEngineers’ ranking at 197 represents a significant jump from last year when we were ranked 220. The list includes a wide variety of firms that offer design services, including architectural and civil engineering firms. Geoprofessional […]