On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed into law the most substantial federal investment in U.S. history to fight the effects of climate change. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) would invest roughly $370 billion dollars over the decade towards clean energy and green infrastructure projects. The goal is to reduce emissions in every sector of the… Read more »
RK&K team members joined Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and U.S. Senator Ben Cardin recently at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Howard Street Tunnel Expansion Project in Baltimore, celebrating the project’s successful planning effort to date. RK&K’s Planning group played an instrumental role supporting project development of the $466-million project, a joint effort for CSX Transportation,… Read more »
RK&K joined city leaders at the ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the $16 million Rash Field Park improvement project at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. RK&K, as sub to Mahan Rykiel Associates, has been involved in this project since 2015, performing a rough demolition cost estimate for Waterfront Partnership. With this, the firm acted as a… Read more »
RK&K team members recently attended the groundbreaking ceremony for Morgan State University’s (MSU) new Health and Human Services Building. The 208,000-square-foot, $171-million facility is next in a series of physical additions to MSU’s campus in Baltimore City. The building will provide state-of-the-art classroom, lab, demonstration, office, and community spaces for MSU’s School of Community Health… Read more »
RK&K staff gathered with community members, officials, and representatives over Labor Day weekend to celebrate the official opening of the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in Washington, DC, the biggest infrastructure project in the District Department of Transportation’s history. RK&K worked on the $480 million project since 2017, providing program management services including geotechnical engineering,… Read more »
ENR Southeast recently featured RK&K’s work on the $360-million design-build corridor upgrades to I-40 in Raleigh for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The article focused on our work as the design partner preparing a 13-mile stretch of intersection for anticipated traffic surges, which includes the addition of two travel lanes in each direction and… Read more »
Drew Altland, PE, RK&K’s Senior Manager of Water Resources, was recently featured as a guest on the Wild Plant Culture podcast, which explores the “connections between people and wild plants in the Northeast.” Drew discussed his water resources expertise and career and RK&K’s various stream restoration projects and ecological work. He also talked about stream… Read more »
Earlier this month, the completion of the Scott’s Run Trail project was celebrated with a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by Fairfax County and Virginia Department of Transportation leaders and covered by Inside NoVA. RK&K provided on-site testing and inspection services for the 2,500-foot-long asphalt trail running between Chain Bridge and Magarity roads and through Westgate… Read more »
RK&K made the top spot on the Baltimore Business Journal’s annual list of the largest engineering firms in the greater Baltimore area. The annual list is ranked based on the number of local professional engineers and our firm came in at No. 1 with 176 on staff. From 2018 through 2020, RK&K was ranked No.… Read more »
Roads & Bridges magazine named Stage 1 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike/I-95 Interchange Project, for which RK&K served as prime section designer, its No. 2 Top Road project for 2020. Stage 1 of the project involved the construction of two high-speed interchange movements required to complete I-95’s missing link along the east coast. Prior to the… Read more »
