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Giving Tuesday is a global event supporting nonprofit organizations. We urge you select a charity you’d like to support and donate. Employees at KL love that KL matches donations to a charity of their choice up to a certain amount each year. Besides matching charitable donations from our employees, we are also collecting books for […]

KL Team Members Brad Halvensleben, Graham Kothbauer, Samantha Herheim, and Katie Kirkendall attended the Dane County School Consortium’s Future Quest at the Exhibition Hall at Alliant Energy Center last week. They showed a microsimulation of traffic flow to the middle school students who attended the event. We are always happy to chat with future engineers!

America Recycles Day (ARD) was started in November in 1997, but the torch to keep it alive was passed to the Keep America Beautiful organization in 2010. This nationally recognized initiative has long been dedicated to encouraging folks to reduce, reuse, and specifically recycle where possible. KL Engineering has long participated in this effort through

It’s not every day that you get to paddle around Lake Monona on the clock…but earlier this month, KL surveyors Matt Lee, Justin Staudt, and Charlie Denu did just that while surveying on John Nolen Drive. We needed to capture lake bottom elevations under some of the bridges, so we rented a paddle boat to

The third public involvement meeting for the John Nolen Drive project will be on Wednesday, October 23rd at 6:30 pm, held virtually over Zoom. The presentation will review the preferred alternative for Phase 1 of the proposed project along with the expected remaining schedule. Phase 1 of the proposed project will begin north of the

JOIN US on October 2nd at noon to celebrate the expansion of our Madison headquarters! The Fitchburg Chamber will be holding a ribbon cutting ceremony to help us commemorate being a Fitchburg business for over 25 years. We have a staff of 100 and continue to grow! Please click this link to register for the

The KL team had a great time at the American Heart Association Madison Heart Walk was last weekend. The AHA celebrated 100 years of research and activism in June, so this walk was especially momentous for the organization. Nathan Rullman, KL’s Team Coach, rallied our office over several months to come together for this great

Wisconsin boasts one of the highest totals of modern roundabouts in the nation, with close to 600 roundabouts as of January 2024. KL Engineering is at the forefront of roundabout design and construction, and we pride ourselves on our involvement in applying this creative intersection control type in appropriate locations across the state. Roundabouts are

KL’s Brad Halvensleben and Ryan Schanhofer enjoyed themselves at the ACEC Wisconsin Golf Outing last week. Here they are standing at the hole KL sponsored for the event. Scott Cramer, Matt Schroeder, Aaron Steger, and Chad Halverson also partook in the festivities. Thanks for a great event, ACEC!

The ACEC Wisconsin HR Forum visited our KL Madison headquarters for a presentation by Mike Johnson at Hausman Group. The forum is made up of 20-25 HR professionals from other area civil engineering companies. Thank you, Mike, for sharing the latest HR benefits trends with our group!

Did you know that… …1 out of every 3 Americans has some form of cardiovascular disease? …every 40 seconds someone has a heart attack? …more people than the population of Seattle (800,000) have a stroke every year? …9 out of 10 people who suffer a sudden cardiac arrest outside of the hospital die? …in which

Cade McCullough and Dillon Elliott visited KL last week for a job shadowing opportunity. Cade is going into his senior year of high school and Dillon recently graduated and will be starting college next January. The two spent the morning with KL’s Dean Long, visiting several construction sites in Madison, McFarland, and Fitchburg. Then they