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The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) awarded GeoEngineers and our project partners, Jacobs and SDA, a national Honor Award for engineering excellence for our work on the reconstruction of Washington State Route (SR) 530 after the Oso Landslide. The project received one of just 16 honor awards out of 170 entries representing some of […]

Senior Fluvial Geomorphologist Tim Hanrahan, PhD, recently accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of the North American Journal of Fisheries Management, a publication of the American Fisheries Society. The journal is one of six peer-reviewed publications the society produces to share the most current science behind the fisheries profession. The North American Journal […]

As thousands of visitors flock to the Skagit County Tulip Festival in northwest Washington this April, a new award-winning roundabout near Mt. Vernon at Pioneer Highway and Fir Island Road will provide a safer and less-congested route for travelers. Prior to construction, temporary traffic control personnel were necessary to direct traffic at this intersection during […]

GeoEngineers is part of the design and construction team for the first project outside of the US to receive certification from the Greenroads Foundation, a nonprofit organization that manages certification reviews for roadway and bridge projects using its Greenroads Rating System, a sustainability-rating system for roadway design and construction. The project, Canada’s South Fraser Perimeter […]

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Washington awarded GeoEngineers and our project partners, Jacobs and SDA, the 2015 Transportation Gold Award for our work on the reconstruction of Washington State Route (SR) 530 after the Oso Landslide. The  catastrophic landslide on March 22, 2014, near Oso, Washington, flowed thousands of feet across the Stillaguamish […]

GeoEngineers Principal Geotechnical Engineer Shaun Stauffer, PE, LEED® AP will give a keynote presentation on February 16 at the Geosynthetics 2015 Conference in Portland, Oregon about the reconstruction of Washington State Route (SR) 530 after the Oso Landslide. The  catastrophic landslide on March 22, 2014, near Oso, Washington, flowed thousands of feet across the Stillaguamish […]

The Seattle Post of The Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) awarded its 2014 Small Business Design Excellence Gold Award to a fish passage design project that GeoEngineers partnered on for the US Navy. The award is the top honor in its category and recognizes the fish passage project’s contributions to improve operations of the Navy, the […]

GeoEngineers Principal Engineer David Eley, PE is co-presenting this week at the ASCE International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure with Russ Joffrion, PE of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA). Their presentation, “Working with the Mississippi River for Sustainable Storm Protection,” discusses the causes contributing to the loss of land along the Louisiana coastline, […]

It is with extreme sadness we share the news that GeoEngineers Principal Scientist Lisa Berntsen died recently while trekking at high altitude in Nepal. She was 49 years old. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on November 22, 2014 at Fox Alliance Church (655 6th Ave. FI, Fox Island, WA 98333). Lisa started her […]

I recently had the privilege of attending the 2014 ESRI International User Conference (ESRI UC) in San Diego. The ESRI UC is the world’s largest event dedicated to geographic information system (GIS) technology. With more than 15,000 attendees, the conference provides opportunities to keep up on the latest GIS technology, meet people in the industry […]