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• June 16, 2008: BT Squared Featured in Zweig A/E Marketing Letter • April 30, 2008: BT Squared Big Give Back • March 26, 2008: Bright Lights, Windy City: Madison Engineering Firm Opens Chicago Office • March 15, 2008: BT Squared Staff Becomes Smarter, More Highly Paid • February 4, 2008: Fresh Faces at BT2 • October 25, 2006: The Company That Keeps Giving: BT2 Breaks Pledge Record -- Again • September 15, 2006: BT2 Bikers Still Standing After 85-Mile Charity Ride • July 20, 2006: BT2 Assists 84 Lumber in Obtaining Brownfield Grant BT Squared Featured
in Zweig A/E Marketing Letter BT Squared Big
Give Back BT2's largest single donation in 2007 was approximately $5,000 in pro bono engineering services for the Goodman Atwood Community Center development, which is being built on the site of former Kupfer Iron Works Property on Madison's east side. The Goodman Atwood Community Center provides programming for all ages and services such as a food pantry and meals to those in need. For more information about the Center and the Kupfer Iron Works project, please see www.goodmancenter.org. The company also made cash donations of $2,000 to the National Heritage Land Trust and $500 to Aldo Leopold Nature Center, and BT Squared and its employees donated the monetary equivalent of approximately 9,000 meals to Second Harvest Food Bank. Other non-profit agencies that received donations from BT Squared in 2007 include the Dane County Environmental Council, the Real Estate Alliance for Charity, Community Shares, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County. In addition to financial resources, BT Squared employees continued the company's long-standing tradition of volunteering at the United Way's Day of Caring, Meals on Wheels, Wisconsin Public Television drives, and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's Adopt-a-Highway program. Bright Lights,
Windy City: Madison Engineering Firm Opens Chicago Office
BT Squared Staff
Becomes Smarter, More Highly Paid BT Squared also announces that Robert Langdon has been promoted to senior
project manager. Langdon specializes in environmental site investigations
and remediation of environmental contamination, and assisting clients
who are pursuing environmental clean-up projects under the Wisconsin Petroleum
Environmental Cleanup Fund Act (PECFA) and Drycleaner Environmental Response
Fund (DERF) programs. Langdon is a hydrogeologist and has been with BT
Squared since 2000. Fresh Faces at BT2
BT Squared Engineering & Science, a civil and environmental engineering
company based in Madison, Wisconsin, announces the addition of Dave Hendron
as senior engineer, Tyler Munson and Brynn Bemis as staff scientists,
and Neil Faherty as senior technician. Dave Hendron is an international expert in geotechnical and environmental
engineering with 40 years of consulting experience. He is a licensed professional
engineer in the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.
Hendron has worked nationally and internationally on high-profile projects
such as providing contractor claim review for the Massachusetts Turnpike
Authority on Boston's Central Artery Tunnel Project, or "Big Dig." During his practice, Hendron has managed hundreds of multi-disciplined
geotechnical engineering projects for public and private clients on issues
including foundation design and construction for large earth, concrete
and steel structures, slope stability, remedial investigations, risk assessment,
remedial technology selection and design, performance monitoring, analysis
of slope and foundation failures, litigation support and expert testimony. In Wisconsin, Hendron has worked for Pleasant Company in Middleton to
evaluate the cause of a major settlement of a 100,000 sq. ft. distribution
center, and he also serves as project manager for the design, installation
and performance monitoring of remedial systems for residential and commercial
buildings in the Gaslight Pointe redevelopment in Racine. Tyler Munson joins BT Squared as staff scientist. Munson will
specialize in environmental site investigations and remediation for agricultural
clients. He received a bachelor's degree in geology and geophysics from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has completed graduate coursework
in hydrology from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Also joining the company as staff scientist, Brynn Bemis brings
project experience in site investigations, soil and groundwater monitoring,
and Phase 1 and 2 Environmental Site Assessments to BT Squared's real
estate development services team. Bemis received a master's degree in
water resources management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and
a bachelor's degree in earth and environmental science from Wesleyan University. Neil Faherty joins BT Squared as senior technician. Faherty will
use his many years of project engineer and project management experience
in roadway and bridge construction to provide construction administration
for BT Squared's WDOT projects. Faherty was previously with other survey
and engineering firms in South Central Wisconsin. The Company That
Keeps Giving: BT2 Breaks Pledge Record -- Again
Other BT2 annual giveback efforts and donations include United Way's "Day of Caring," Second Harvest, and the National Heritage Land Trust. BT2
Bikers Still Standing After 85-Mile Charity Ride
In addition to fielding three riders, BT2 sponsored the fundraiser, which provided at least $25,000 for two nonprofits, the Atwood Community Center on Madison's East Side and the Notre Dame Middle School in Milwaukee. This year's ride also celebrated the one-year anniversary of the opening of Eppstein Uhen Architects' Madison office. Eppstein Uhen, headquartered in Milwaukee, is the organizer of the event.
BT2 CEO Mark Huber, who along with coworkers
Tom Bergamini, principal, and Amy Gribb, marketing manager, were able
to walk unassisted after biking the full 85 miles, said, "I think
I can speak for Amy and Tom when I say we found that the ride allowed
us to recapture our youth in a way that other networking events have not.
I am, however, skeptical of others' suggestion that 'biking is the new
golf' --I find that 18 holes requires significantly less ibuprofen than
85-miles in the saddle." BT2
Assists 84 Lumber in Obtaining Brownfield Grant 84 Lumber Company, the nation's largest privately held supplier of building materials and services to professional contractors, will locate its fourth Wisconsin-based operation at the Terminal Drive Location. 84 Lumber's plans for the McFarland facility include truss manufacturing facilities, a lumber distribution center, and a retail outlet, which in total are anticipated to bring over 150 jobs to the area. In addition to the $400,000 brownfield redevelopment grant from the Department of Commerce (Commerce), the project has received financial assistance through Commerce's Petroleum Environmental Cleanup Fund Award (PECFA) program and $530,000 in tax incremental financing from the Village of McFarland. Brownfield redevelopment can be risky and challenging, particularly in this case. In spite of the site's notoriety, 84 Lumber founder and CEO Joe Hardy chose not to pursue the simpler route of locating the new facilities on a "greenfield" site a few miles down the road and to instead accept the risks associated with redevelopment of the Terminal Drive property. 84 Lumber Vice President of Corporate Communications Jeff Nobers said, "Mr. Hardy decided that the advantages of the existing infrastructure at Terminal Drive, particularly the access to rail transportation, outweighed the extra cost of cleaning up the property. Plus, 84 Lumber believes strongly that rehabilitating blighted properties is the right thing to do as a corporate citizen. We're excited to be moving into the Village of McFarland and proud to be able to contribute to the community by redeveloping the Terminal Drive site."
Other contributors to the project are the Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources, which expedited review of remediation plans to meet 84 Lumber's
tight construction timeline; Michael, Best & Friedrich, legal counsel
for the environmental cleanup and property transaction; and BT Squared
Engineering & Science, environmental engineering consultants on the
project.
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