Spokane Office Finalist for Business Award
For the past 20 years, Greater Spokane Incorporated (GSI) has invited eastern Washington and north Idaho members, volunteers, business owners and the community to nominate businesses for an AGORA Award. AGORA is the Greek term for marketplace. The award recognizes Inland Northwest firms that demonstrate business excellence in the local community. GeoEngineers was nominated for […]
Port of Anacortes Hails GeoEngineers’ Work
On Friday, May 20, 2011, GeoEngineers staff members participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the re-opening of the Seafarers’ Memorial Park and the completion of the former Scott Paper Mill Site environmental clean-up project in Anacortes, Washington. GeoEngineers designed and coordinated the two-year, $34-million-dollar project for the Port of Anacortes, in partnership with the State […]
Louisiana Principal Promoted, Elected to Board
GeoEngineers is pleased to announce that David P. Sauls, PE, Principal in GeoEngineers’ Baton Rouge, Louisiana office, was recently promoted to leader of the company’s South Business Unit. Sauls was also elected by the shareholders to GeoEngineers’ Board of Directors on March 5, 2011 at the company’s annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, where its headquarters […]
GeoEngineers Rocks Trenchless Conference
GeoEngineers’ trenchless experts presented two papers at the recent North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT) No-Dig 2011 conference March 28 – 30 in Washington DC. Michelle Ramos and Brian Ranney presented a paper titled Mixing Oil and Water—Lessons learned from oil/gas and municipal projects. This paper presented similarities and differences in design approach between […]
Fish and People: Finding a Balance
The best river environment for thriving salmon populations isn’t always the best for humans who also use the rivers and streams the fish inhabit. Efforts to enhance habitat with engineered structures such as engineered log jams (ELJs) and large woody debris placements can increase the risk of drowning or injury for fishers, swimmers, kayakers and […]
Gordon Denby appointed to STPI Earthquake Engineering Experts Panel
The Science and Technology Policy Institute, a department of the Institute for Defense Analyses, has invited Gordon Denby, GeoEngineers’ President and a Principal Geotechnical Engineer, to serve on a panel of experts to plan for the future of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). NEES was originally founded in 2004 to provide earthquake engineering […]
GeoEngineers’ Project Wins ACEC Grand Award
For the third year in a row, GeoEngineers took home a Grand Award at the American Council of Engineering Companies of Missouri (ACEC) Engineering Excellence Awards. The Pipeline Crossing of Mississippi River Levee project was the top in the energy category. This annual program recognizes the state’s best engineering achievements, and the awards are among […]
Living Building Opens with Help from GeoEngineers
On February 11, the Bertschi School, an independent elementary school on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, celebrated the opening of its new Science Wing. The new structure is Washington State’s greenest new building and a project that is on track to be the first certified Living Building in the state. The wing’s design was the result of […]
GeoEngineers Projects Receive Best in State Awards
GeoEngineers recently received awards for two entries in the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)-Washington 2011 Engineering Excellence Awards competition. This annual program recognizes the state’s best engineering achievements, and the awards are among the most prestigious in the industry. The Olympic Pipeline Span Protection project won a Silver Best in State award for Exceeding […]
Crowd Sourcing Used to Gather Property Information
The Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP) recently launched the Historic Property Inventory (HPI) module for the award-winning Washington Information System for Architectural and Archaeological Records Data (WISAARD). GeoEngineers’ Applied Technology Group worked with DAHP to develop the ability for public users to add historic preservation information to a centralized statewide data […]