Awards and Accomplishments

This year, KL’s Kim Lobdell was presented with a Golden Shovel Award at the 2025 WisDOT Annual DBE Workshop. The award recognizes Kim’s remarkable efforts to promote women in the engineering field, and her endeavors to build a successful DBE business during her career. KL’s Scott Cramer was in attendance and accepted the award on […]

During Engineers Week, NSPE-WI honors engineers in the State of Wisconsin for their contributions to the engineering profession and to our society. This year, KL’s founder Kim Lobdell received the award. What a great honor! Thank you to NSPE-WI!

We’re proud to be recognized as one of the Top Places to Work this year. A great workplace is one that supports work-life balance. At KL Engineering, we’re proud to offer a flexible environment where our team can succeed both professionally and personally. When asked in an anonymous survey about what contributes to their work-life

Last Friday, KL’s Brad Halvensleben and Dan Ryan were honored to accept ACEC Wisconsin’s 2024 Engineering Excellence Best of State award for our work on the WIS 26 Interchange. From overcoming unique challenges to delivering innovative solutions, this project truly exemplifies engineering excellence. As team member Brian St. Vincent reflects, “The challenges we faced were

Last Wednesday, winners of the 2024 Top Workplace Award gathered to celebrate! This corporate networking event included a brief awards presentation, where companies received their plaques and an advance copy of the 2024 Top Workplaces special section from the Wisconsin State Journal. We were thrilled to see KL got a featured article and that we

KL Engineering is honored to announce that we have been recognized as a Top Workplaces 2024 honoree by The Wisconsin State Journal! Thanks to our incredible team who took the time to share their thoughts in the employee survey — the results spoke volumes. At KL, we strive for an environment where every employee feels

KL Engineering was honored with another award for the WIS 26 Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) project in Janesville, WI. It received the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Wisconsin 2024 Engineering Excellence Best of State award. What a great way to kick off Engineers Week, a week to celebrate engineers and their impact. Congratulations to

This project consisted of milling and resurfacing of 17 miles of HMA pavement along STH 64 in Marinette County. Within the project limits were 39 intersections and 303 driveways. In addition to paving, widening shoulders, and adding rumble strips, the project included 17 cross culvert replacements, guardrail replacement and grading, storm sewer, box culvert endwall

Congratulations to Monarch Paving, Cooper Engineering, and WisDOT Northwest Region on winning the 2023 WisDOT Outstanding Highway Construction Award for Asphalt Paving! KL Engineering’s Chris Ehlert was the acting WisDOT Project Manager overseeing construction on the USH 63 project from Baldwin to Cumberland in Polk County. Monarch Paving provided an outstanding project with excellent ride

The Little Suamico River Bridge provides passage for high volumes of traffic during summer months. It was deteriorating and nearing unsafe conditions for the traveling public. The two-lane, three-span structure required staged reconstruction during the winter months to prepare for a pavement replacement project in the spring. This posed many unique challenges and opportunities for

Congratulations to Trierweiler and the project team on winning the WisDOT and WTBA 2023 Outstanding Highway Construction Award for Concrete Paving! What an exciting project to be a part of! It’s not all that often we are able to reconstruct a major gateway to downtown Madison and the State Capitol. This project included over 20

We are thrilled to announce that KL Engineering was honored with a 2023 Engineering Achievement Award for the WIS 26 Interchange project in the City of Janesville by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Wisconsin Section. The project doubled the traffic capacity of I-39/90 from US 14 to Kennedy Road, improved corridor service levels,