Awards and Accomplishments

The Fish Hatchery and McKee Road intersection was notorious for being a tricky intersection to cross. Motor traffic would regularly disregard the protected right turn signage, creating safety conflicts with pedestrians and cyclists. KL’s redesign separated the southbound right turns and provided a pedestrian refuge island on which to safely wait before crossing the remaining […]

KL Engineering was honored to receive the APWA Wisconsin Project of the Year award last night! The North Fish Hatchery Road project is a generational corridor project that serves as the gateway to Fitchburg, WI. The project was designed and constructed within a four year window and involved extensive public engagement efforts. Congratulations to City

KL Engineering brought home the 2022 WisDOT Excellence in Highway Design Award for Best Urban Design. The USH 51 project improved Wisconsin & Dewitt Streets in the City of Portage, providing safety and better accommodations for traffic, business, pedestrians, bicycles, and even canoes! This complex project involved ADA connections to the Wisconsin River Levee Trail,

KL’s Jim Dzienkowski led construction oversight for the $60 million I-94 reconstruction project in Dunn and St. Croix Counties. This complex project overcame numerous challenges, including constructing lanes with a 3:1 traffic split through 4 stages on the Knapp Hill portion of the project. Over the course of several years, the concrete on this rural

KL’s Josh Vollmer led construction oversight for the Potosi Branch Bridge project, which replaced a deteriorating structure on Brewer Hollow Road in Potosi, Wisconsin. The bridge provides access to the Historic downtown area and to tourists traveling along Wisconsin’s Driftless Area. The project was a 2021 WisDOT Outstanding Highway Construction Award Finalist in the Small

Congratulations to John Mueller whose project won the 2021 WisDOT Outstanding Highway Construction Award in the Small Structure Category! John provided construction oversight on this highly environmentally sensitive project in Dunn County. The STH 85 bridge over Rock Creek needed to be replaced, however directly under the bridge was dam that also needed to be

KL’s construction team attended the 2022 WTBA/WisDOT Contractor-Engineer Conference and Awards Banquet last week.  We were honored to have 3 of our projects selected as Statewide Construction Award finalists and thrilled to come home with 1 award winner! Our construction team is a fantastic group of close-knit, hardworking people. They put in long hours to

The Wisconsin Statewide LED Retrofit Implementation Plan project was a state finalist for the 2020 Engineering Excellence Award. Ryan Schanhofer accepted the awards on behalf of Wisconsin Department of Transportation and KL Engineering at the ACEC awards ceremony last week.

The IH 41 / WIS 441 Interchange Ramps project in Appleton, Wisconsin was recently honored with a 2018 WisDOT Outstanding Highway Construction Award for Excellence in Large Structures. KL Engineering provided construction oversight as support staff to WisDOT. The project constructed the new USH 10 East ramp to IH 41 North and the IH 41

KL Engineering was awarded the 2019 WisDOT Excellence in Highway Design Award for Best Structure by a Consultant at the 2019 ACEC Transportation Improvement Conference. The I-39/90 Rock River Bridge Project replaced the northbound and southbound I-39/90 bridges over the Rock River to meet current standards, while maintaining two lanes of traffic per direction on