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Engineering Firms
BizList Engineering Firms
Ranked by total number of licensed engineers 2021
Firm Name Address, Phone Website
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
3052 Beaumont Centre Circle Lexington, KY 40513 (859) 422-3000 www.stantec.com
HDR Engineering, Inc.
2517 Sir Barton Way Lexington, KY 40509 (859) 629-4800 www.hdrinc.com
GRW
801 Corporate Drive Lexington, KY 40503 (859) 223-3999 www.grwinc.com
CMTA Engineers * 2429 Members Way Lexington, KY 40504 (859) 253-0892 www.cmtaegrs.com
Denham-Blythe Company, Inc.
100 Trade St. Lexington, KY 40511 (859) 255-7405 www.denhamblythe.com Number of Local Licensed Engineers Type of Engineering Notable Projects or Clients
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Top Local O cials
Glenn Hardin, PE (VP); Mark Litkenhus, PE (VP); Bret Lavey, PE (Senior Principal); Jason Maxwell, PE (Principal)
Ben Edelen, PE (Senior VP); R. Larry Anderson, PE (VP); Brent A. Tippey, PE (VP)
Ron D. Gilkerson (Chairman)
Kevin Mussler, PE (VP)
James K. Davis (President); Bill Quenemoen (CEO)
Kelly G. Gillespie (President); James K. Roberts, PE, PLS (Exec. VP); Stephen H. Caudill, PE (VP); John D. Prince, PE (VP); David F. Schrader, PE (VP); Robert L. Pickerill, PE (VP)
E. Tyler Wilson, PE (Principal); Ralph Whitley PE, (Principal); Whitley C. Casey, PE (Principal); Nick Morgan, PE (Principal); James A. Troutman, PE (Principal)
Jon Hale,PE, PMP, (Principal/ President/CEO); Darrin Croucher, PE (Principal/VP); Je Garrison, PE (Principal/VP); Jordan Haney, PE, LEED AP (Principal/COO)
Dan Kubican (President)
Gregory G. Carter, PE (President); Wayne A. Thomas, Christopher C. Keath; Greg Kraezif; Bill Watson; Jenny Kruer
Albert W. Gross, PE, PLS (Managing Partner); Leslie M. Haney, PE, PLS (Managing Partner); Jerry Cottingham (Partner); Tom Hatfield, PE, PLS (Partner); Rick Nunnery, PE, PLS (Partner)
Steven Gardner, PE (VP)
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Bell Engineering
2480 Fortune Drive, Ste. 350 Lexington, KY 40509 (859) 278-5412 www.hkbell.com
Shrout Tate Wilson Consulting Engineers
628 Winchester Road Lexington, KY 40505 (859) 277-8177 www.stweng.com
Thoroughbred
239 N. Broadway Lexington, KY 40507 (859) 785-0383 www.thoroughbredfirm.com
Brown + Kubican, PSC
2224 Young Drive Lexington, KY 40505 (859) 543-0933 www.brownkubican.net
Staggs & Fisher
Consulting Engineers, Inc. * 3264 Lochness Drive Lexington, KY 40517 (859) 271-3246 www.sfengineering.com
EA Partners, PLC
3111 Wall St. Lexington, KY 40513 (859) 296-9889 www.eapartners.com
SynTerra * 340 S. Broadway, Suite 200 Lexington, KY 40508 (859) 233-2103 www.synterracorp.com
Paladin, Inc.
121 Old Lafayette Ave. Lexington, KY 40502 (859) 252-3047 www.paladinengineers.com 112
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Building Commissioning, Sustainability Consulting, Direct for Owner MEP Engineering US 68 / KY 4 Double crossover diamond interchange; KY statewide bridge inspections; KDOW Dam Safety Hazard Mitigation Program; KY Lock and Dam renovations; Statewide Kentucky Flood Mapping Program; Ohio River Bridges in Louisville; LFUCG’s Sanitary Sewer Capacity Assurance Program Bridging Kentucky; extending life of 1000 bridges; Lexmark Rainwater Harvesting System; KAW’s system-wide model recalibration & updates
Bluegrass Airport; KY Transportation Cabinet; LFUCG; RJ Corman; KY American Water; LG&E and KU; Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District; Northern KY Water District; Danville, KY; Louisville Water Company; Bardstown, KY; Paducah-McCracken Joint Sewer Agency; Ashland, KY; Elizabethtown, KY
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Kentucky Transportation Cabinet; I-64; US 25; Mountain Parkway; Brannon Road; LFUCG; Beaumont Centre; Fayette Mall; Keeneland; Glassford; Blackford/ Glenegles; Hamburg/Tuscany; Homeplace
Portal 31 Mining Heritage Museum (Harlan County, KY), thousands of coal and aggregrate mining plans and permits; Cumulative Impact Assessments for HUC 8 Watersheds (East KY); LFUCG Stormwater Projects, Phase I and II Environmental Assessments
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BizLex Q&A Crystal Wilkinson
Kentucky’s new poet laureate on a life in letters and the business of books
BY TOM WILMES
BUSINESS LEXINGTON
Crystal Wilkinson was “wildly bashful” as a child, she says, “but I was always an observer. I preferred to write things down more than I preferred to speak.”
Wilkinson included many observations from her childhood growing up on her grandparent’s farm in Casey County, Kentucky, in her debut story collection, “Blackberries, Blackberries.” She graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a journalism degree, and worked on her stories and poems in the odd hours between caring for her children and working first for the Lexington HeraldLeader, then the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, where she was assistant director.
Wilkinson is also the author of “Water Street” and “The Birds of Opulence,” and her debut poetry collection, “Perfect Black,” will publish this summer. A 2020 U.S. Artists Fellow who also teaches at the University of Kentucky, Wilkinson has earned numerous awards and recognition for her writing. In April, she was named as Kentucky Poet Laureate and will serve two years in the role.
Congratulations on being named Kentucky’s Poet Laurette. What are your plans
for the post? I’ve been thinking about what to do and how to do it, and I’m starting to get a lot of requests. I suspect my first year as poet laureate will still be a lot of virtual events, and by the second year it will open up to more in-person events. I do want to get on the road as soon as possible.
I’m lucky to have known or have met every Kentucky poet laureate going back to Mr. [James] Still. They’ve all given me advice and told me about some of their adventures, and I’ve had lots of opportunity to talk with the people I’m close to, like Frank X Walker and Gurney [Norman] and George Ella Lyon. Sena Naslund is a mentor of mine, and Maureen Morehead — I feel like I know all of them, to some extent.
I don’t see this role as promoting my own work — although that will be a part of it — as much as promoting the work of other Kentucky writers. To start o , I want to do a segment at least once a month called ‘Stories across the Bluegrass,’ where I’ll interview people and talk to them about their work.
Everyone has a story to tell and, having lost both my grandparents and getting to an age now that most of the generations that came before me are no longer living, I think every time an older person dies, a whole host of stories leaves with them.
When I worked at the Carnegie Center, there was a woman from Eastern Kentucky who I became really close to. Her name was Mexie Smith-Cottle, and she had been a telephone operator working for GE, but she always wanted to be a writer. So, after she retired, she started taking classes at the Carnegie Center, and she wrote and self-published a book called ‘And the Road was Mostly in the Creek,’ which is a jewel of a little book. I think there are a lot of people who could be motivated to write their stories down.
Writing is a solitary activity, but one that benefits from com-
munity. You do write in solitude, most of the time, and you’re often unsure if your words will have an impact — what to do with them, how to fix them, how to revise them. We often think of publishing as only one way, but the definition of published is to make public.
Even if it’s just a small group, reading your words out loud and having them give you what I call in my classes ‘love notes’ and ‘help notes’ is very beneficial.
Having a community of writers has been one of the most important things to advance my work and, I think, helpful at any level — whether you’re an elementary school student, an aspiring or professional writer or a senior citizen. I certainly found a community with the A rilachian Poets and at the Carnegie Center.
I’ve always written, but I was really bashful and quiet. I had my professional life with a journalism degree and raising my children, and I worked for the city government, where I wrote newsletters and the occasional speech for the mayor and things like that, but all of my fiction and poetry I kept o to the side.
I remember getting my gumption up enough to read at one of these local readings, and that was the first time I met Frank Walker and the other A rilachian Poets, who became a huge part of moving my writing forward. I also remember Mary Ann Taylor-Hall and James Baker Hall coming up to me after a reading and saying, ‘I really like the part where this happened.’ I was young and trying to raise my children and working all day, sometimes working two jobs, and it was wonderful to have that kind of feedback and a rmation.
You and spouse Ronald Davis also owned Wild Fig Books for many years. What was that side
of the business like? I think that my and Ron’s downfall was that we are both writers and artists — he’s trained as a graphic artist and my training is in journalism. We did a lot of community building and had a lot of community support and love, but our business acumen wasn’t on the forefront, which it needs to be in a for-profit business. We learned as we went, and I think did pretty well selling books, but it’s not like selling groceries — if someone comes in and buys $200 worth of books, you’re not going to see them again for awhile.
What fed our bookstore was me, primarily, as we were building the business. When I was doing my speaking engagements with my publishing career, a lot of funds that came in from that went straight back into the bookstore. But we loved it. I don’t think I’ve loved anything more.
Do you think the arts are primarily a driver of culture or more of a byproduct of culture?
I think some of both. Lexington is bookstore-rich, which is a blessing, but if we could have picked up and dropped the bookstore in a surrounding small town where there wasn’t already one, we might have helped create a happening.
I saw that happen with Soaps and Such in Stanford, Kentucky. It’s located in an old hotel on Main Street, which the owners refurbished. They have a soap factory in the basement, and one of the owners is also a writer, so they carry books inside their little shop and they host readings and art exhibits. It o ers something that you don’t have to leave home to get. I think shopping local and playing and doing local drives the economy, and if you can get it going, it also drives an art culture. BL
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New Hires & Promotions
Bank of Lexington has named Cindy Burton as new president.
Brian Lacefi eld, of Versailles, has been named the new director of the Kentucky O ce of Agricultural Policy.
AppHarvest, Inc., has announced that Ciara Burnham, an executive and investor with a track record of building growth businesses in fi nancial services and social impact organizations, and Geof Rochester, a thought leader in corporate social responsibility marketing at organizations such as The Nature Conservancy, will join its board of directors.
Blue & Co., LLC, has announced that Jennifer Miloszewski has been appointed to succeed Greg Mullins as the Lexington o ce director-in-charge. director-incharge. Additionally, Melvin Lewis has joined the fi rm as an IT support specialist.
Jocelyn Mills, who most recently served as the principal of Chicago’s Barbara A. Sizemore Academy for students in grades K-8, has been selected as the fi rst-ever principal of Carter G. Woodson Preparatory Academy in downtown Lexington.
Hindman Settlement School’s board of directors has named Will Anderson as its next executive director.
Frost Brown Todd (FBT) has promoted Jonathan S. Miller from the head of the Lexington o ce to lead FBT’s new Washington, D.C., o ce. Jan de Beer will take over for Miller in the Lexington o ce.
Former CDC director Robert Redfi eld has joined Big Ass Fans as strategic health and safety advisor to provide solutions for poor indoor air quality and airborne pathogen transmission.
Abdul Muhammad, senior vice president of regional sales at WesBanco, has been named to Cleveland Fed’s New Equity and Inclusion Advisory Council.
Davis H. Elliot Company, Inc., a fullservice electrical contractor headquartered in Lexington, is pleased to announce the promotion of Scott Navis to chief fi nancial o cer.
Community Trust Bank has announced that Tina Parsons has been promoted to the position of commercial loan o cer.
Wilderness Trail announced that Len Landry is joining its team as vice president of operations and engineering.
Southeastern Freight Lines has promoted Michael Cotter to service center manager in its Lexington o ce.
Institute 193 has welcomed Ryan Filchak as its new director.
Kudos
Leadership Kentucky is proud to announce its Elevate Kentucky Class of 2021. Local leaders from Lexington include: Ben Apro, Perfection Group; Kyle Bunnell, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP; Ian McHone, Joseph & Joseph + Bravura Architects; Kyle Spring, Beam Suntory; and Kyle Withers, Churchill McGee.
Frontier Nursing University chief diversity and inclusion o cer Geraldine Young, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, CDCES, FAANP, has been selected as one of “70 Visionary Leaders” by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing.
Crystal Wilkinson, associate professor in the English Department at the University of Kentucky, has been named Kentucky Poet Laureate for 2021-22.
Kentucky-based architectural fi rm K. Norman Berry Associates Architects celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding. BL
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