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Bridgeport Transportation and Land Use Study Receives Planning Award

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HRG was part of a team that was honored this week at the Places 2040 Planning Leadership Awards. Our project, the Bridgeport Transportation and Land Use Study, was recognized in the Thinking Beyond Borders category. Thinking Beyond Borders is one of five “Big Ideas” in Lancaster County’s comprehensive plan (otherwise known as places2040). It promotes cooperation across traditional boundaries to achieve regional goals, and the Bridgeport Transportation and Land Use Study exemplifies this approach.

Bridgeport began as a historic village and gateway for travel between Lancaster’s city neighborhoods and its rural landscapes, dating as far back as the 1800s. Today, it encompasses portions of four municipalities: the City of Lancaster and East Lampeter, West Lampeter, and Lancaster Townships. These four municipalities worked together on a shared vision for the area’s transportation infrastructure, trails, and land use policies in order to enhance walkability, reduce congestion, and create vibrant spaces for the community to enjoy.

HRG provided transportation planning services and cost estimates for the creation of this study. Derck & Edson led public engagement and provided streetscape and land planning services. Town Planning Partnership, LLC, assisted with land planning and public engagement. All municipalities and the Lancaster County Planning Department provided representatives for the steering committee. Over 800 local community members provided essential input/feedback as part of the planning effort.

We’re humbled to be recognized among so many great projects at the Places 2040 award ceremony, and we’re thankful for the opportunity to be a part of this project team.

Bridgeport Transportationa and Land Use Study team accepts the Places2040 planning leadership award

(L-R) Bob Shenk, Steve Hackett (Derck & Edson), Ryan Hostetter (HRG), Cindy McCormick (City of Lancaster), Tara Hitchens (East Lampeter Township), Mark Evans (Derck & Edson, Town Planning Partners), Terry Martin (Lancaster County Planning Commission), Ben Bamford (Lancaster County Planning Commission)

 

 

Matthew Attig Joins Our Civil Group in York

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Matthew AttigMatthew Attig has joined the civil engineering group at Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc. He is the most recent person to join the firm’s rapidly growing York office, which has experienced a 75% increase in sales in the first quarter of 2022 and has been adding talent across all of its service areas.

HRG’s assistant vice president and office manager Tim Staub says, “We’ve been working hard to build a strong municipal client base in York, and it’s rewarding to see our vision being embraced by the community.  Part of that vision is attracting the best and brightest talent to serve our clients by providing an inspiring team culture and ample opportunities for professional growth, so I’m proud and happy to welcome Matt to the team.  He is a homegrown talent with great ideas and a fresh perspective, thanks to his extensive community involvement throughout York County.  He wants nothing more than to positively impact the communities and waterways he grew up with, and he is a perfect fit for the evolving needs of our clients and communities.”

Attig has five years of experience with stormwater management, NPDES permitting, erosion and sedimentation control, ordinance writing, plan reviews, and construction management.  He has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and is a board member for the Watershed Alliance of York.

 

 

ABOUT HRG

Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc. (HRG) is a nationally ranked design firm providing civil engineering, surveying, and environmental services to public and private sector clients throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia.  The firm was founded in Harrisburg in 1962 and has grown to employ more than 250 people across the tri-state region.  For more information, please visit the firm’s website at www.hrg-inc.com.

Bob Grubic Receives Professional Achievement Award from Villanova University

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Please join us in congratulating our CEO Bob Grubic, who recently received a Professional Achievement Award from Villanova University’s College of Engineering. He’s shown here with Dr. Michele Marcolongo, the Dean of the College of Engineering at Villanova, who presented the award to him.

Bob Grubic accepts a Professional Achievement Award from Dr. Michele Marcolongo, the Dean of the College of Engineering at Villanova.

Bob was chosen for this honor by the University’s Engineering Alumni Society, and his name will be featured with past and future honorees on a wall of plaques outside the civil engineering classrooms.

He graduated from Villanova in 1973 and immediately joined a small Harrisburg-based engineering firm by the name of Herbert Associates. Today, that firm bears his name and has grown to employ more than 300 engineers, planners, landscape architects, surveyors, environmental scientists, and financial specialists in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. His work as an engineer has helped to shape the infrastructure of Harrisburg and the surrounding area for almost 50 years, and we are all so happy to see him get this recognition from an institution that helped to shape the engineer and business leader he has become. Congratulations, Bob!

HRG Named One of the Largest Engineering Firms in Pittsburgh

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Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc. (HRG) has been named one of the largest engineering firms in Pittsburgh by the Pittsburgh Business Times.  The firm is #31 on the most recent list published by the business journal on February 17, 2022.  The rankings are based on local engineering billings for 2021.

HRG opened an office in Cranberry Township in 1994 and currently has almost 60 employees living and working in the Pittsburgh region. Its service offerings include the design of water and wastewater treatment systems; roadway, bridge, and traffic engineering; land development and site design; surveying; stormwater management; and municipal engineering.

“HRG has a great group of professionals and a loyal base of clients that continues to grow each year,” assistant vice president Jim Feath says. “Our success in this region belongs to them, and we thank them for continuing to work with us in this great city of ours!”

Planning & Design Group Brings Many Talents into One Unified Team for a Holistic Approach to Placemaking & Community Development

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Ginny Loaney & Nichole Mendinsky collaborate on a projectThe HRG team has two primary focuses: One is helping people create safe, healthy, resilient, and desirable communities. The other is providing the highest level of service to our clients. Our newly named Planning & Design Group helps us do both in an enhanced way.

We’ve always had broad-ranging talent to create desirable spaces for living, working, shopping, learning, and gathering with family and friends. Our team includes planners, engineers, landscape architects, funding strategists, and construction specialists with creative ideas and extensive experience across many sectors.  Now we’re bringing these diverse perspectives into one unified team: the Planning & Design Group.

We know that every planning and design decision impacts other decisions in a multitude of ways, so we’re fostering collaboration throughout the project life-cycle.  This helps us be nimble and responsive, saving you time and money while ensuring a carefully considered and well-executed end product.

The group is lead by Nichole Mendinsky as practice area leader. As a certified planner, parks and recreation professional, and registered landscape architect, Nichole embodies the vision of this team to bring many disciplines together for a holistic approach to community development.

She is supported by a group of more than two dozen talented practitioners, including our newly promoted group manager, Laura Ludwig, and newly promoted team leader, Scott Bert.

Laura has a deep understanding of the duties and challenges municipal planners face due to her prior experience as community development director for North Fayette Township.  She’s a certified planner and the southwestern Pennsylvania section chair of the American Planning Association.

Laura LudwigScott BertScott is a licensed professional engineer with 29 years of experience. He provides land development and site design services for warehouses and distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, retail, healthcare, educational facilities, and residential communities.

Ryan Cummings Joins HRG’s Civil Team in York

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Ryan CummingsHRG has hired Ryan Cummings as a project engineer in our York office. Ryan has seven years of experience in stormwater management, land development, and site design.  He has primarily supported the construction of pipelines, well pads, roadways, bridges, and culverts. He is a licensed professional engineer in Pennsylvania and a member of both the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Highway Engineers.

HRG assistant vice president Tim Staub welcomed Cummings to the team, saying, “I am excited to match Ryan’s outgoing community-driven personality with our municipal clients. Ryan has the technical capabilities and passion to be a leader for the communities we represent to drive results.”

Governor Appoints Letavic to Science & Technical Advisory Committee at Chesapeake Bay Program

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Our senior project manager Erin Letavic has been appointed by Governor Wolf to the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Science & Technical Advisory Committee. The Chesapeake Bay Program is the leading voice directing the restoration of our nation’s largest estuary for recreation, industry, and the environment.  It advises state and federal agencies on policy and provides both funding and resources to entities working to improve water quality at the grassroots level.  The program’s Scientific & Technical Advisory Committee ensures that the advice and resources it provides are scientifically sound.  Members offer independent scientific and technical guidance, serve as a liaison to the region’s scientific community, and facilitate cooperation among research institutions and agencies within the watershed.

We believe Erin will be a great addition to this committee because of her broad-ranging knowledge and experience with Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts: She has two degrees – one in environmental engineering and the other in geology.  She has more than 17 years of experience helping municipalities with MS4 permitting and compliance, and she leads HRG’s work as the coordinator for 13 counties currently participating in DEP’s Phase 3 WIP Countywide Action Plan program.  She’s also an impaired streamside landowner herself and a passionate watershed advocate.

Erin Letavic

“I’m excited to bring my perspective as a practitioner and my experience on the ground to the committee. I want to give a program-level perspective on local implementation challenges, and I’m grateful that the governor and the Chesapeake Bay Program are giving me that opportunity.”

 

Nikki Mendinsky Recognized Among Women Making a Difference

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Nikki MendinskyCongratulations to our land development practice area leader Nikki Mendinsky, who has been recognized by PA Business Central as a Woman Making a Difference. Anyone who works with Nikki knows her drive to make a positive impact with her work as a planner, landscape architect, and certified parks and recreation professional. She believes strongly in the power of place to improve people’s lives, and you believe it, too, once you’ve had the chance to talk with her or work alongside her.  We’re so happy to see her recognized with a very talented and influential group of leaders in Central Pennsylvania. (Read Nikki’s full bio here.)

Bob Grubic to Be Honored as ICON by Central Penn Business Journal

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Bob GrubicWe’re so happy to share that our CEO Bob Grubic is being recognized as an ICON by the Central Penn Business Journal.  His name appears in an ad in this week’s edition featuring all of the 2021 honorees, and he’ll be formally recognized at the award ceremony next month.

Bob has played an instrumental role in making HRG the company it is today, and his work has significantly shaped the landscape of Central Pennsylvania and beyond. He took the baton handed to him by HRG’s founders and built on their standard of professionalism, excellence, and care (for our team, our clients, and our community).  We congratulate him on this recognition.