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Feed My Starving Children
Feed My Starving Children is a non-profit organization that provides nutritionally complete meals for malnourished children around the world. For the third year Keck & Wood joined the assembly line and hand-packed specifically formulated meals for undernourished children to be shipped around the world. Over the four day event, 6,072 boxes were packed, totaling 1,322,552 meals, enough to feed 3,593 kids for an entire year!
Pilot Testing Membranes: Is it Really Worth the Expense
Jolene Northrop, PE and Loren Weaver, EIT recently presented on this topic as the 2019 SCEC Conference. Look for their next presentation at the 2019 GRWA Spring Conference at Jekyll Island in May.
Thompson Mill Road at North Bogan Road Intersection Improvements, Gwinnett County, GA
Keck & Wood, Inc. is excited to announce its selection by the Gwinnett County Department of Transportation to provide professional engineering services associated with the proposed intersection improvements at the intersection of Thompson Mill Road and North Bogan Road in Gwinnett County, GA. The project will be funded thru the Gwinnett County SPLOST program and consists of adding a traffic signal along with left turn lanes to the intersection.
City of Gainesville Downtown Streetscape Improvements
Keck & Wood, Inc. is excited to announce its selection by the City of Gainesville to provide professional engineering services associated with the City's continued redevelopment of their downtown. The project will include the following: Streetscape improvements along Washington Street, Bradford Street, Green Street and Spring Street Sanitary sewer replacement along Bradford Street, Spring Street and Green Street Water main replacement along Bradford Street and Washington Street Storm sewer replacement [...]
GSMST VEX Robotics Competition
K&W staff thoroughly enjoyed judging the GSMST VEX Robotics Competition this past weekend in Lawrenceville, GA. All the students did a fantastic job. Congratulations to the winners! And thank you to our judges, Nick Andryusky, Loren Weaver, Lynn & Jamie Brenton, and Aurie Jones.
Richard D. Gurney, PE, F.ASCE ASCE Georgia Section President
Keck + Wood is pleased to announce that Rick Gurney, PE, Senior Vice President and engineer in charge of Keck + Wood's Transportation Division is the 2019 ASCE Georgia Section President.
Families 4 Families
Keck & Wood employees sponsored a family in need this Christmas through the charitable organization Families 4 Families. Employees purchased and donated gifts from the children's wish list and Keck & Wood matched all employee contributions with a monetary gift. We would like to take this opportunity to wish all a very happy holiday season!
Company Christmas Party
Our Duluth, GA and Rock Hill, SC office celebrated Christmas this year at Chateau Elan's beautiful winery. The evening began with Old World Wine Tasting followed by dinner in the Cask Room. We were grateful both offices were able to celebrate together along with numerous retirees. Congratulations to our door prize winners - Eddie Williams (50" Smart TV), Christy Gilstrap (Fit Bit Versa), Erin Nelson (iPad), John Primm (Mini Green [...]
Gwinnett County Stormwater Roundtable
Sam Serio, PE made a presentation about an emergency culvert replacement project to stormwater professionals from around Gwinnett County yesterday at the quarterly Gwinnett County Stormwater Roundtable. Keck & Wood helped the City of Peachtree Corners save $130,000 through value engineering and creative design. Thanks to the City of Sugar Hill for hosting the meeting.
Halloween Costume and Pumpkin Carving Contest
Keck & Wood's Duluth office had awesome participation in this year's costume and pumpkin carving contest. Congratulations to our costume winner - Bryan Sartin and to our pumpkin carving winners - Jolene Northrop, Loren Weaver, and Robert Renwick!
Thought Leadership Through Technical Expertise
The Keck & Wood professionals are continually developing beneficial solutions for clients’ projects. Sometimes these solutions challenge the typical norm of engineering and planning, or reinforce the basic foundations of the practice. Either way, the stories shown below emphasize the Thought Leadership role our team provides clients and the marketplace a daily basis.