Category: General Civil / Municipal

Rare Fire Safety Center is Hot Commodity

The popularity of Chippewa Valley Technical College’s new Fire Safety Center in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is heating up. The building recently was the subject of a lengthy television news story by Eau Claire’s WEAU-TV. Ayres Associates architects (who recently joined the firm through the acquisition of Frisbie Architects) and site civil engineers provided design services… Read More »

This 85% Water Rate Increase Is a Good Thing

You wouldn’t necessarily look at an 85% water rate hike as a real day-brightener, but for the Village of Lena in northeastern Wisconsin, it’s relatively good news for its 250 water customers. Customers could have seen a 117% rate increase to help pay for a radium removal plant currently under construction, as pictured above. But… Read More »

Wauwatosa Goes Green on Bike-Friendly Street

What’s black and red and green all over on North Avenue in the Wisconsin city of Wauwatosa? That’s the newly reconstructed black asphalt roadway with its red-painted crosswalks and, most prominently, its bright green bike lanes and bike boxes along 16 city blocks. Wauwatosa leaders and others celebrated the City’s first bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly roadway… Read More »