The Wisconsin-sponsored Blight Elimination and Brownfield Redevelopment (BEBR) program will provide a $75,000 grant to Gestra Engineering, Inc., of Milwaukee. The grant will help Gestra Engineering redevelop an existing building for new offices. The Department of Commerce's BEBR program funds the evaluation and improvement of contaminated land in order to make it available for productive use. Gestra Engineering, which is relocating its offices from Oak Creek to Milwaukee, will have to eliminate polluted soil, which will cost around $345,000. The company, which provides geotechnical, structural, pavement, and construction materials for engineering services, will create eight jobs for the new project. Brownfields are fallow wastelands or underused industrial or commercial properties where improvement or renovation is prevented by real or apparent contamination.
Hunt Engineers adds Sellard and Rathbun to its team
George Sellard and Kristi Rathbun, two engineering professionals, have joined Hunt Engineers' team. Sellard has had vast experience with a wide range of information technology platforms, voice- and data-system designs, and large- and small-scale network designs for educational and industrial clients. The author of several publications on optical fibers, Sellard joins the new firm's information technology group as technology designer. Rathbun, who joins the firm as a structural engineer, has had vast experience in structural engineering, structural analysis, and designing structural systems for new and renovated buildings. Hunt Engineers has more than 95 engineers and provides its clients, which include municipal, commercial, and educational institutions, with comprehensive engineering, architectural, and surveying services.
AVEVA's "Engineering Excellence to the Extreme" contest to be held in October
The annual AVEVA "Engineering Excellence to the Extreme" contest will be held October 21-23 in San Antonio, TX. The International Symposium for Engineering IT (ISEIT) 2007 is being organized by AVEVA Americas for the second time to recognize projects using AVEVA technology. In order to qualify, each participating firm must submit its nomination by September 30 and "demonstrate how its project is an example of overcoming extraordinary engineering challenges such as scope, environmental, safety, risk, completion time, or other factors," states a release. Previous winners include Arauco, Petrobras, and SBM-Imodco.
