Press Releases 2009: January - March
Olsson Employees Achieve LEED Accreditation3-30-09
Olsson Associates is pleased to announce that Erin Cummings, EI, Amy Gabor, EI, Ben Messersmith, EI, Lisa Pine, AICP, and Dave Skuodas, PE, recently achieved LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) professional accreditation. This accreditation distinguishes individuals who successfully complete a comprehensive exam covering LEED project certification requirements and processes.
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3-25-09
Mike Yost has been named Community Services Practice Group Leader for Olsson Associates and will lead the firm's efforts in municipal, airports, and community consulting work. Mike has been with OA since 1993. He will work out of Olsson's Golden, Colorado, office.
He served as the manager for Olsson's Denver/Central Nebraska region, and has been the Greater Nebraska office leader for the Grand Island, Holdrege, Hastings, Scottsbluff, and South Sioux City, Nebraska, and Sioux City, Iowa, branch offices since 2007. Mike has more than 25 years of experience in municipal, civil, and water resources engineering projects. His technical strengths are in the production of plans and specifications, construction administration, and project management, including the coordination of large-scale, multidisciplinary engineering projects.
Mike is registered as a professional engineer in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Iowa, and recently became LEED® accredited. He's also a licensed private pilot and has helped grow Olsson's airport practice.
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2-27-09
Craig Reinsch, a member of Lincoln's Water/Wastewater team, was recognized with ACEC/Nebraska's Young Professional Award. This award is intended to recognize the accomplishments of young professionals (30 years of age of younger) who have contributed to the engineering profession and impacted society. As Nebraska's winner, Craig is automatically nominated for consideration at the national level.
With Olsson since 2001, Craig has performed design, construction observation, grant writing, cost estimating, and hydraulic modeling services on wastewater treatment facilities, collection systems, transmission mains and wells, water system improvements, and lake rehabilitation projects for public and private clients throughout the Midwest. He devotes his free time to a number of organizations and efforts, including Water for People, Boy Scouts of America, and missionary work in Central America.
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2-13-09
The office is located at 1802 East 123rd Street, Olathe, Kan., 66061. Staff can be reached by phone at 913.829.0078 or fax at 913.829.0258.
Olsson's other KC metro locations include offices in Overland Park, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.
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2-3-2009
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Donations and charities included:
Kansas City (Overland Park and KC offices) raised more than $250 to Junior Achievement of Kansas City for scholarships and special Junior Achievement funded economic and special workforce-prep programs in the Kansas City region.
The Lincoln office raised $400 with proceeds to Lincoln Cares, a program supporting special projects and programs of the City Parks and Recreation Department.
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These events were held as part of Olsson's Community Builders program.
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1-30-09
Thanks to the support of great clients during the firm's 12 years in Omaha, Olsson Associates has grown and expanded its services in the Greater Omaha metro area. The office plans an upcoming move into Aksarben Village--a place with a little history of its own.
Olsson will be one of the first corporate tenants of this progressive, urban, neighborhood redevelopment project in the heart of Omaha. From here, Olsson will continue to honor the best of Omaha's past and help envision a progressive future through its broad range of consulting design services.
Staff members will move to the new office on March 6.
To members of the media: The full press release, corporate logo, downloadable renderings and photos are posted in the Media Resources section.
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1-22-09
Olsson has added Matt Larson, PE, to its Omaha Water/Wastewater team. Larson will serve clients in and around the greater Omaha area and throughout western Iowa.
Larson brings more than seven years of experience working in all phases of project development, with an emphasis on design and construction of water and wastewater treatment facilities. He has a B.S. in civil engineering and a M.S. in environmental engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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1-16-09
Since first opening its doors in Grand Island 25 years ago, Olsson Associates has made a name for itself throughout the community.
In 1984, Olsson Associates was a small engineering firm with an office in Lincoln and 40 employees. The firm was interested in expanding to Grand Island, and on January 16, 1984, it acquired a firm called Brady & Associates, thus creating an Olsson office in the city.
The seven employees, including current staff members Kevin Prior and Tim Aitken, worked from a small office on 216 N. Cedar. The firm steadily grew and moved to a new office in the Plaza Square in 1993.
In July 1996, the firm moved its 15 staff members to its current home, an expanded and renovated office at 201 E. 2nd Street. After another expansion and renovation in 2006, today Olsson employs 35 staff members in its Grand Island office.
Not only has the firm grown, but its services have expanded also.
"We're still a civil engineering firm, but we've added complementary services that really elevate what we can do," said Kevin Prior, a senior project engineer. "We've added testing, geotechnical and field services in recent years and that's allowed us to do most projects entirely in-house."
Along the way, Olsson's engineering design work has helped shape Grand Island with the following projects:
• South Locust Street roadway projects
• Island Oasis Water Park
• Expansion of the city's library and Fire Station #1
• Capital Avenue and Stolley Park roadway expansions
• Civil design on both Wal-Marts
• Several subdivisions, including Eagle Run and Summerfield Estates
• Trails and wading pools throughout the city
• Site improvements at Central Community College
Beyond the city limits, the office was involved with the construction of the Wood River bypass channel.
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01-13-09
Olsson Associates is pleased to announce that seven staff members recently achieved LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) professional accreditation. This accreditation distinguishes individuals with detailed knowledge of LEED project certification requirements and processes who successfully demonstrate these proficiencies on a comprehensive exam.
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01-08-09
Olsson Associates is pleased to announce that seven staff members recently passed the professional engineering (PE) exam. The requirements to become a professional engineer include four years of professional experience under a licensed professional engineer and passing the PE exam.
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1-05-09
Olsson Associates has relocated two staff members from its South Sioux City office to its Sioux City office to better serve clients and projects in Sioux City.
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Hanson and Walker will join the Sioux City staff to provide a local presence on these projects and expand the firm's services.
Olsson's Sioux City office, located in the Terra Centre at 600 Fourth Street, opened in April of 2005. The firm will continue to maintain a fully staffed office in South Sioux City, located at 1707 Dakota Avenue.
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1-05-09
South Sioux City's Dakota Avenue paving project will be recognized by the Nebraska Concrete Paving Association with its 2008 award of excellence in concrete paving in the municipal category.
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Engineering design was performed by Olsson Associates; the concrete paving contractor was Sioux City Engineering Company; and the concrete was supplied by Siouxland Concrete.
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