Great_River_Engineering

Our offices will be closed on Thursday and Friday for the Holiday. From our GRE family to yours, have a wonderful and happy Thanksgiving!

At our 4th quarter company meeting we were able to present Jerany with her 15-year award, Travis with his 10-year award, and Zach with our Core Values award. We couldn't be more grateful to have these 3 on our team, they make Great River a stronger and better company. Congratulations to each of you and thank you for your hard work and dedication!

A few of our team went up to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to participate in another career fair. We're always excited to speak to talented students entering the workforce about what GRE has to offer. Thank you to Krysta, Jeff, and Evan for taking time to represent our company.

A rainy morning didn’t keep us from celebrating the completion of the street & trail improvements at 3rd St/McCracken Rd and the opening of the rehabilitated historic McCracken Bridge in Ozark, MO yesterday!

This collaborative effort was made possible through Mike Parson’s Governor’s Transportation Cost Share Program in partnership with the City of Ozark, MO, Christian County, Finley Farms TDD, Ozark Special Road District, and the Missouri Department of Transportation.

Great River Engineering is honored to have been a part of the planning, design, and construction of this exciting project!

Another career fair in the books! Thank you to Evan, Marie, and Jeff for representing GRE at the Missouri S&T Career Fair in Rolla on Tuesday. We spoke with a lot of great talent and enjoyed meeting the students to discuss new opportunities at GRE.

Great River Engineering’s Transportation and Bridge Teams have been busy these last few weeks. Team members have presented at 3 different professional conferences across the State. In August the Transportation Team presented two separate projects at the Ozark Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Fall Technical Conference at OTC in Springfield. Transportation team members, Jerany Jackson - PLA, Shannon Shank – PE, PTOE, and Mike Beaty – PE, PTOE presented their work on the Silver Dollar City Parking Lot and 76 Highway project in the morning session. Later, Garen McElroy - PE, Shannon Shank and Mike Beaty closed out the seminar with a presentation of Great River Engineering’s cooperative work with MoDOT on the Highway 86/Thunder Ridge Arena Project.

At the end of August, Evan Lewis - PE (Bridge Team) and Mike Beaty – PE, CFM (Transportation Team) presented their Finley River HEC-RAS 1D vs 2D Model Comparison to the Missouri Floodplain and Stormwater Managers Association (MFSMA) conference at Lake of the Ozarks.

On Thursday of this last week Austin Hostettler - EIT, Shannon Shank and Mike Beaty returned from presenting their Balancing the Capacity and Safety Improvements of the Highway 86 improvements project to the State of Missouri’s Show Me Zero Highway Safety and Traffic Conference in Columbia, Missouri. Attendees at that conference requested that our Team present the same program to MoDOT’s Spring 2024 TEAM conference and the Missouri APWA Chapter’s fall 2024 conference.

Next week, Shannan Shank, Jerany Jackson and Mike Beaty will round out the 2023 calendar year with an updated presentation of their Silver Dollar City Parking Lot and 76 Highway project to the Missouri Valley Institute of Transportation Engineers (MOVITE) Fall 2023 conference in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Nice work Great River Team!

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Evan and Jacob represented GRE at the University of Missouri - Kansas City Career Fair yesterday. We're very excited and thankful for the students that participated and the staff that work hard to give the students these opportunities.

Did you know today is National Eat Outside Day? We celebrated by having a company-wide cookout at all 5 of our branches and the weather couldn’t have worked out better! Thank you for those who made sure everyone had a good time and a full stomach. Happy National Eat Outside Day!

Congratulations to GRE's Connie Walden for this amazing accomplishment! We're so excited about the work being done at Society of Women Engineers - Kansas City!

As the Awards Chair, Connie worked with the SWE-KC Executive Committee throughout the year to curate activities and professional development series for girls and women that meet SWE’s core value. The yearlong effort to provide events meeting these goals by SWE-KC has been awarded a Bronze level badge recognizing SWE-KC for demonstrating continuous improvement and growth as they work to achieve the Society’s strategic goals. The executive committee included professionals from Burns & McDonnell, Honeywell, KSNSC, and Great River Engineering collaboratively volunteering to develop the SWE-KC program for the fiscal year 2023.
SWE Core Values include:

● Integrity
● Inclusive Environment
● Mutual Support
● Professional Excellence
● Trust

Happy Independence Day!

Having a great day on boarding new team members in St. Louis today!

We had a great time welcoming new additions to our GRE staff this weekend. Thank you to everyone who could come out to St. Louis to participate in our team building event!

Thank you to the City of Fulton for having us help deliver this bridge project.

Fulton leaders celebrate new bridge - ABC17NEWS FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Fulton leaders celebrated the opening of a new bridge Friday morning on Second Street. City leaders met on the bridge for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and thanked the community for being patient during the bridge construction. The city says crews began working on the bridge in March....

Congratulations, Evan Bergmann!

We are excited to welcome Krysta to our bridge team! Krysta will be joining our St. Louis office. Her leadership and experience gained on the bridge team will help her get a head start on her career.

Soon-to-be S&T graduate Krysta Swartz plans to impact society with structural designs Three years ago, Krysta Swartz, of Caseyville, Illinois, graduated from high school and earned an associate degree from her local community college at the same time. Now, she is preparing to walk across the commencement stage again — this time with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from M...

Another Great River Engineering Bridge!

GRE is proud to play our part as the design engineer on this project. Another historic truss that we get to play a role in saving.

Mill Pond Bridge in Ozark, Mo., lifted off the river for restoration The Mill Pond Bridge in Ozark got a face-lift on Thursday, literally.