In The News
Read what consumer and trade publications have said about Burns & McDonnell and its projects.
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October 26, 2012
Architects and engineers rely on careful measurement and planning. Perhaps it's no wonder, then, that a recent national survey showed that architecture and engineering firms are behind the business world as a whole in the use of social media. Burns & McDonnell, Kansas City's largest architecture firm, has one of the metro area's most advanced social media strategies.
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October 25, 2012
Mike Beehler, vice president at Burns & McDonnell, will participate in leading a webinar on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, examining High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC), past and future use and related issues.
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October 24, 2012
The K-State College of Engineering's new Smart Grid Lab in Rathbone Hall was opened to the public Tuesday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Don Gruenbacher, department head of electrical and computer engineering, acknowledged the international engineering firm Burns and McDonnell for its role in funding the lab.
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October 18, 2012
The newest laboratory at Kansas State University's department of electrical and computer engineering will not only amp up already strong academic and research programs in electrical power and communications, but it also will help provide a surge in the university's — and state of Kansas' — goal of providing more engineers.
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October 12, 2012
The Kansas City Business Journal names Burns & McDonnell the #1 large workplace in Kansas City. It's our first time in the top spot after seven consecutive years on the list.
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October 12, 2012
The 240th Regiment's new $33 million Regional Training Institute is a state-of-the-art training facility that can be used to develop a wide range of military skills. Burns & McDonnell provided comprehensive A/E design and construction support services.
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October 4, 2012
A joint venture by Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co. Inc. and Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co. Inc. was awarded a $290 million contract to engineer, procure and construct environmental control systems for Interstate Power and Light Co.'s 726-MW coal-fired Ottumwa Generating Station in Ottumwa, Iowa.
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October 1, 2012
Company spearheaded its own architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, engineering and construction services for a renovation and addition of an auditorium space at its world headquarters in Kansas City, Mo.
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September 28, 2012
Burns & McDonnell and CAS Constructors LLC are partnering on design-build services for a new 500,000-gallon-a-day wastewater treatment plant, a project that will serve two southwestern Johnson County communities that don't always see eye to eye.
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September 28, 2012Kansas City Business Journal: Burns & McDonnell Tackles Problem of a Different Stripe: Zebra Mussels
Burns & McDonnell is helping Council Grove, Kan., and many other municipalities handle infestations of zebra mussels, an invasive species that is making its way through the Midwest and can cause serious damage to cities' water systems and supplies. Burns & McDonnell has seen calls about the mussels triple in the past year.
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September 28, 2012
A Burns & McDonnell executive who is both mentor to, and employee of, CEO Greg Graves plans to retire in December. As Walt Womack leaves the company, he makes way for a successor whom he's also spent years grooming. Womack's coming retirement highlights an active executive coaching and mentorship program that is shaping a changing of the guard at the Kansas City-based engineering firm.