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BT2 Press Releases

• 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
April 30, 2008--BT Squared, an engineering firm with headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, has been featured in a nationally published newsletter for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction firms. It highlights how BT Squared created a memorable brand identity by using its three founders, Tom Bergamini, Ray Tierney, and Mark Tusler to show that engineers and scientists can have fun while they are at work. This marketing campaign was used for the annual Holiday card, an announcement for the opening of our Chicago office, our annual movie event, and on the website. To see the full article, please click here.

BT Squared Big Give Back
April 30, 2008--BT Squared, an engineering firm with headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, is proud to announce charitable contributions of over $7,500 for 2007.

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
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March 26, 2008-- BT Squared Engineering & Science, a civil and environmental engineering company headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, announces the opening of its Chicagoland office at One Northfield Plaza in Northfield, Illinois. Dave Hendron, senior engineer, is manager of the new office.

BT Squared CEO Mark Huber said, "Opening an office in the Chicago area is a logical step for the company. We've been working in Illinois for years, and we will be better able to serve our existing clients and continue growing our business in Illinois from our Northfield office."

Dave Hendron will manage the new office. Mr. Hendron has 40 years of consulting experience in geotechnical and environmental engineering, as well as experience in the business of opening regional offices for engineering firms. He said, "I'm excited for this opportunity to grow BT Squared's business in northern Illinois and beyond. Opening and building branch offices is my favorite non-engineering part of the engineering consulting business, and I'm ready to make BT Squared's expansion to the south a successful one."

During his career, Mr. 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. He is a licensed professional engineer in the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, and has previously worked for Chicago-based consulting firms GeoSyntec Consultants, Camp Dresser & McKee, and Woodward-Clyde Consultants.

BT Squared Staff Becomes Smarter, More Highly Paid
March 15, 2008-- BT Squared Engineering & Science, a 50-person civil and environmental engineering firm, announces that Betty Socha, senior hydrogeologist and project manager, has recently received her Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Dr. Socha began her career with BT Squared in 1993. She specializes in soil and groundwater investigation and remediation for property transactions, brownfield redevelopments, and in solid waste management.

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
February 4, 2008-- BT Squared Hires Senior Engineer, 2 Staff Scientists, and Senior Technician

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
October 25, 2006-- BT2 employees set a new company record for workplace giving by pledging $12,700 to Dane County United Way and Community Shares for the 2007 funding year. BT2 Office Manager Joanne Eveland said, "Each year when I coordinate the fund drives for the United Way and Community Shares campaign I think there is no way that we can top what we donated last year, and each year I have to eat my words. The generosity ofBT2's employees is amazing, to say the least!"

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
September 15, 2006-- Three BT2 employees joined a pack of nearly 200 riders for the second annual Beyond Design Bike Tour, an 85-mile bicycle ride from Madison to Milwaukee that celebrates growing business links between the two cities and raises funds for not-for-profits.

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
July 20, 2006-- BT2 added to its long list of value-added engineering services success stories by assisting 84 Lumber Company in obtaining a $400,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Commerce's Blight Elimination and Brownfield Redevelopment program for 84 Lumber's redevelopment of a 17-acre brownfield at 4414 Terminal Drive in McFarland. BT2 is 84 Lumber's environmental engineering consultant for redevelopment of the property, which has been described by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as one of the most contaminated in southern Wisconsin.

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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