The Master Builders Association and others are celebrating Construction Week October 15 -20, and we wanted to join the celebration by spotlighting our talented resident project representatives and construction inspectors. These men and women deliver real value by monitoring construction activities and ensuring the finished project accurately reflects the design plans our clients approved. Their […]
Clean water is essential to life, and life is priceless. But sometimes the cost of clean water can be too high for a community to bear. When it is, a mix of grants and forward-thinking design can make the cost more manageable as it did for the residents of a small village in Central Pennsylvania […]
Cumberland County has been recognized with a Road & Bridge Safety Award for the Craighead Bridge replacement project. The award is given jointly each year by the Pennsylvania Highway Information Association, County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, and PennDOT to the best road and bridge safety improvement projects undertaken by county governments across the state. The […]
It’s National Water Quality Month, and we’re sharing projects we’ve designed that help improve water quality in the communities we serve. Today, we’re profiling the West Caracas Avenue parking lot in Derry Township. This 40,000 square foot parking lot includes 11,500 square feet of porous asphalt, which reduces the volume of stormwater runoff, prevents pollutants […]
HRG helped our clients obtain more than $35 million in grants and loans from the most recent round of funding announced by PENNVEST this month. More than a third of the funding PENNVEST announced is going to clients HRG helped apply to the program. The following grant and loan recipients received application assistance from HRG: […]
Stormwater management has become a major priority for environmental agencies over the past decade, and communities are struggling to meet the increasing requirements to reduce stormwater pollutants and runoff volume. The cost is simply too high for many municipalities to bear alone, but it becomes much more manageable if municipalities can share the burden with […]
Regularly replacing deteriorated concrete manholes is an expense (and inconvenience) that most sewer systems have learned to live with, but what if they didn’t have to? We recently incorporated polymer concrete manholes into the design for two of our clients and wanted to share the benefits of this technology with other clients who might be […]
The Pennsylvania Water Environment Association honored Erin Threet with the Ted Moses High Hat Award at its annual award ceremony Monday night. The award is given each year to individuals who have excelled at promoting the association and its programs. Threet manages the Lewisburg office of Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc., and serves the firm’s […]
Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc. (HRG) was honored last night at the ESOP Association’s Annual Awards for Communications Excellence (AACE) ceremony in Washington, D.C. HRG received an award for employee ownership marketing. This award recognizes achievements in advertising the benefits of employee ownership to customers, the community, and the general public. HRG became an employee-owned […]
We regularly hear about the condition of infrastructure in the United States, and many times the news is bad. Too often we hear about underground pipes breaking, roads crumbling, and bridges that need to be closed. Fortunately, in Londonderry Township, bridge conditions are actually pretty good. Londonderry Township is specifically responsible for 13 bridges, all […]