GeoEngineers Receives Transportation Innovator Award
Downtown On the Go (DOTG) has awarded GeoEngineers its 2012 Transportation Innovator Award in the Biking Strong Category. The award highlights GeoEngineers’ leadership and involvement in Bike Month 2012 events and was one of six awards presented October 12th at a Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber luncheon and Transportation Innovator Awards ceremony. Bruce Stirling, PWS, senior project […]
King Chin, PE Discusses 2011 Japan Tsunami at Oregon APWA Conference
King Chin, PE presented a paper at Navigating Change 2012, the American Public Works Association (APWA) Oregon Chapter fall conference held October 2-5 at Gleneden Beach, Oregon. APWA serves individuals, agencies and private companies involved in public works and infrastructure issues. The national organization represents about 30,000 public works professionals and the Oregon chapter has […]
Hiring Our Heroes Event Helps Unemployed Veterans
Senior HR Generalist Matt Clarich and Baton Rouge Lab Manager Dale Ulkins represented GeoEngineers at Hiring Our Heroes, a job fair held in Baton Rouge on September 25th. Nearly 150 people attended the event, which was staged by the US Chamber of Commerce, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and a number of state and national […]
Fiona McNair, MS, PWS Presents at Society of Wetland Scientists Conference
Environmental scientist Fiona McNair, MS, PWS presented a paper at East or West, Water Defines Us All, the 2012 Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) Pacific Northwest Chapter conference, in Boise, Idaho on September 20th. SWS is a non-profit organization that promotes wetland science and the exchange of wetland-related information. In Fiona’s presentation, “Determining Wetland Mitigation […]
Delivering More Natural Gas Capacity to Oregon’s Willamette Valley
GeoEngineers is providing a full suite of services for Northwest Natural’s Mid-Willamette Valley Feeder project. The company’s ambitious natural gas pipeline improvements will increase capacity of a major pipeline by 25 percent to serve the energy needs of the rapidly growing population of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Stretching 150 miles south from Portland to Eugene, this […]
Geo’s Volunteer of the Year Helps Build a Better Tacoma
Tricia DeOme, LG, an environmental geologist in GeoEngineers’ Tacoma (WA) office, was honored at the spring 2012 shareholders meeting as the company’s Volunteer of the Year. Six months after that ceremony, Tricia details the latest on her volunteer activities and their impact on her community. Tricia’s answer to the question, “What have you been doing […]
Update: Geo’s Baton Rouge Office Weathers Tropical Storm Isaac
GeoEngineers’ Baton Rouge, Louisiana office is closed on Friday, August 31st due to limited/intermittent electrical power. The office closed on Tuesday afternoon, August 28th, as Hurricane Isaac headed toward the Louisiana coast and remained closed on Wednesday and Thursday. To ensure continuity of service to clients, phone calls to the Baton Rouge office are being forwarded […]
GeoEngineers Builds Environmental Group in Springfield Missouri Office
GeoEngineers, Inc. continues to grow its Environmental Services Group in the Midwest with recent hires and new projects. Joining the Springfield, Missouri office are Perry Friedrich, Chuck Kroeger, CHMM and Rita Wiggin as environmental scientists and John Carter, PE, RG as a senior engineer. These hires bring the Springfield Environmental Services Group to eight employees. […]
WWU Miller Hall Renovation Achieves LEED® Gold Certification
Western Washington University’s newly renovated Miller Hall has been certified LEED® Gold by the US Green Building Council. GeoEngineers provided geotechnical engineering and construction monitoring services for the renovation. The two-year, $51.5 million-dollar project included an overhaul of all building systems and elements and renovation of general university classrooms, computer labs, instructional spaces, offices and support […]
Eric Heller, PE, LG Named to Business Examiner’s 40 Under Forty Program
The Business Examiner Media Group has named Eric Heller, PE, LG, geotechnical engineer in GeoEngineers’ Tacoma office, for its 40 Under Forty Program class of 2012. The Business Examiner Media Group (BEMG) serves readers in Tacoma and Southwest Washington State with business-oriented print and online publications. 40 Under Forty is one of five leadership recognition […]