Category: Industry News

Accolades Continue for Picturesque Courtney Campbell Bridge

The Ayres-designed Courtney Campbell Multiuse Trail Bridge continues to attract attention. The 3,258-foot-long pedestrian bridge, which runs adjacent to the busy Courtney Campbell Causeway in Florida, is the cover story in the current edition of the American Society of Highway Engineers’ newsletter, the ASHE Scanner. The bridge provides a safe route from Clearwater to Tampa,… Read More »

New Manager Brings Energy to Municipal Engineering Services

Lisa Fleming, PE, has been named manager of the Eau Claire municipal services group, which primarily serves the northwest quarter of Wisconsin. Lisa has been with Ayres since 2003 and has 33 years of experience in municipal and transportation engineering and construction supervision. She’s provided a wide range of planning and design engineering services to… Read More »

Lots of Water over the Dam: Bakken Wraps up 41-Year Career

The year was 1973, and the U.S. unemployment rate was 4.9% and growing. Newly minted civil engineers like Jim Bakken were working wherever they could; for Jim, a fall 1972 graduate, that meant continuing the job he had his junior and senior years at the University of Minnesota – working as a janitor at 3M… Read More »