Category: Industry News

New Manager Brings Energy to Municipal Engineering Services

Lisa Fleming, PE, has been named manager of the Eau Claire municipal services group, which primarily serves the northwest quarter of Wisconsin. Lisa has been with Ayres since 2003 and has 33 years of experience in municipal and transportation engineering and construction supervision. She’s provided a wide range of planning and design engineering services to… Read More »

Lots of Water over the Dam: Bakken Wraps up 41-Year Career

The year was 1973, and the U.S. unemployment rate was 4.9% and growing. Newly minted civil engineers like Jim Bakken were working wherever they could; for Jim, a fall 1972 graduate, that meant continuing the job he had his junior and senior years at the University of Minnesota – working as a janitor at 3M… Read More »

Ayres Associates and SAA to Join Forces, Deliver 360 Degree Solutions

Ayres Associates and the SAA Design Group, a planning and design firm, have entered into a letter of intent for Ayres to acquire SAA. The Wisconsin-based firms have teamed on several projects – including Phoenix Park in Eau Claire. Both companies pursue the goal of providing clients with creative solutions to improve the everyday environment… Read More »