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Engineer News-Record (ENR) Mountain States released this year’s winners of their annual Top Young Professionals competition yesterday. We are pleased to announce that KLJ’s Mike Bittner was among this year’s 20 regional honorees.

KLJ is excited to welcome six new team members.

KLJ is excited to announce the hiring of four new team members.

KLJ is excited to welcome six new team members.

Robert Rapp has joined KLJ as an engineer in the St. Paul, Minnesota office. Devin Moerke has been working as an engineer in our Fargo, North Dakota office. Carol Sersland comes to the team as an environmental planner in the St. Paul office. Lupita Sosa joined KLJ as a project assistant in the Dickinson, North Dakota office. Maureen Brown comes to KLJ as a project assistant in the St. Paul office. Jon Morgenroth joined the team as an engineer in the Fargo office.

KLJ is proud to announce that our team has been awarded an American Council of Engineering Companies of Montana (ACEC/MT) award for work performed on the Glacier Rail Park in Kalispell.

A three-year- construction project recently came to an end when Bismarck Airport’s Runway 13-31 officially opened on October 19. Reconstruction of the 8,794-foot-long primary runway has been in the works since 2011.

The Montana History Foundation is offering grants of up to $10,000 for projects that help preserve and protect Montana’s history. The Department of Commerce Community Development Division will begin accepting Montana Main Street Program grant applications for the FY20 application cycle on November 15, 2019. The next Department of Commerce Big Sky Trust Fund job creation and planning grants are currently being accepted.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held this week to signify the completion and opening of the newly-expanded Sheyenne Street corridor in West Fargo, North Dakota. After nearly two years of construction, Sheyenne Street, from 13th Avenue to the Interstate 94 interchange, has been upgraded.

Safety has always been an important aspect of transportation and roadway planning, and let’s not forget the vital role our stakeholders play in these projects. This week, two KLJ engineers, Joe Devore and Craig Genzlinger, will present on how your project might be impacted and improved during the Joint Engineers Conference held Wednesday, November 6 through Friday November 8 in Helena, MT.

Tomorrow, KLJ’s Joel Quanbeck, will share North Dakota-specific planning best practices with fellow community-building experts and advocates at the Main Street North Dakota Summit in Bismarck. Joel has professional planning experience in the tri-state area and is skilled in comprehensive planning, socio-economic analysis, public involvement, and floodplain management.

KLJ’s Senior Aviation Advisor, Tom Schauer, is set to moderate a panel highlighting important updates to the FAA’s Aeronautical Information Publication at the Great Lakes Chapter of the American Association of Airport Executives annual conference.

Relocating an international airport is never an easy task, and not necessarily common in the aviation world, but that is exactly what happened in Williston, ND. The Williston Basin International Airport officially opened Oct. 10, 2019, when an incoming flight from Minneapolis landed at the new, state-of-the-art facility.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting applications for Brownfield assessment grants and Brownfield cleanup grants.

The Federal Railroad Administration announces the availability of funding to assist in funding capital projects to repair, replace, or rehabilitate qualified railroad assets to reduce the state of good repair backlog and improve intercity passenger rail performance.