Category: Industry News

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 »

Ayres Associates and SAA to Join Forces, Deliver 360 Degree Solutions

Ayres Associates and the SAA Design Group, a planning and design firm, have entered into a letter of intent for Ayres to acquire SAA. The Wisconsin-based firms have teamed on several projects – including Phoenix Park in Eau Claire. Both companies pursue the goal of providing clients with creative solutions to improve the everyday environment… Read More »

Habitat Project Produces Some of the Most Efficient Homes in Wisconsin

Focus on Energy recently announced the locations of the most efficient new homes built in Wisconsin in 2013, and six of the top 10 are in the Eco Village development in River Falls, which one of our vice presidents helped design in support of St. Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity, which is building the compact,… Read More »