WORK EXPERIENCE
Mike is the head of the Engineering
Department for the Freeport, Illinois and Monroe, Wisconsin
offices and a project structural engineer with sixteen years of
experience in the planning, design and evaluation of structural
systems. He has worked on many local agency and IDOT related
projects, as well as numerous building design projects for
private clients.
RECENT PROJECTS
CIVIL SITE DESIGN
Oakridge
Products, McHenry, Illinois
Mike was the project manager for the site
design for a 3,456 SF office building and 16,724 SF warehouse
built in three vacant lots in an established business park in
McHenry. Mike was responsible for plans and specifications for
site grading, pavement elevations, construction details, parking
and driveway design and an erosion control plan. Mike was also
responsible for the water and sewer connection details and
coordination of other utilities with consultants.
Spidahl
Subdivision - Timber Ridge Estates, Lena, Illinois
Mike was the project manager for the civil
site design on a 32 lot residential subdivision on eighty acres
of vacant land. The work included a hydrologic study of the
site, preparation of a stormwater management and detention plan,
site grading to the building set-back lines, erosion control and
horizontal and vertical design of the roadway and ditches.
STRUCTURAL - BUILDING DESIGN
Dennis
Group UDV, Plainfield, Illinois
This project consisted of the expansion of
the existing plant in a 35 acre industrial campus by adding an
additional 200,000 square feet of warehouse, process, technical
operations and packaging space. The project also involved
modifications such as parking, drainage and truck parking. Mike
was responsible for all structural engineering for both the
structural steel framing and foundation work, as well as
complete site design for the campus including the entrance road.
STRUCTURAL - BRIDGES
Tinker
Swiss Cottage Pedestrian Suspension Bridge,
Rockford,
Illinois
Mike was the project manager and
structural engineer
responsible for Phase II and III services for the recreation and
design of a historical pedestrian suspension bridge over Kent
Creek. The structure is a two span (1 at 103-8; 1 at 63-6)
suspension bridge on concrete abutments on pile set in rock and
a reinforced concrete pier set in rock. This project was
awarded a 2006 ACEC-Illinois Engineering Excellence Honor
Award.
Great
River Trail, Savanna, Illinois
Mike was the project manager and
structural engineer responsible for Phase I, II and III services
for a 3.14 mile long shared-use path including two bridges, one
over the Plum River and one over the I.C. and E. railroad
tracks. The Plum River bridge was a 220 clear span bow truss
and the railroad bridge was a 15 span (7 at 70; 1 at 140; 7 at
70) portal truss structure. This project was awarded a 2004
CECI Engineering Excellence Merit Award.
Cedar Road
over Prairie Creek / Cedar Road over Branch of Prairie Creek,
Will County, Illinois
As project manager and structural
engineer, Mike was responsible for Phase I and II services for
the removal and replacement of two structures and Ό mile of
roadway reconstruction. The Prairie Creek structure was a 72'-6"
single span reinforced concrete deck on steel girder structure
supported by spill through pile bent abutments. The Branch of
Prairie Creek Structure was 59-0 single span reinforced
concrete deck on steel girder structure supported by spill
through pile bent abutments.
Lowell
Park Road over Seven Mile Branch,
Lee County, Illinois
Project Manager and
structural engineer
responsible for Phase I and II services for the removal and
replacement of an existing structure and Ό mile of roadway
reconstruction. The structure was a two-span (2 at 75-0)
reinforced concrete deck on 42 precast, prestressed I-beams
supported by one spill through pile bent abutment, on closed
concrete abutment set in rock and a reinforced concrete pier set
in rock.
STRUCTURAL - INSPECTIONS
Cheaters
Tavern, Freeport, Illinois
Arson was suspected after a fire destroyed
Cheaters Tavern in a three-story, 80-year-old downtown building
that shared party walls with the neighbors on both sides.
Because vandalism to destroy evidence was a threat, time was of
the essence in the inspection. Mike inspected the building to
determine that it was safe enough to allow insurance agents and
fire inspectors inside, then was on-site to reevaluate the
buildings safety as pieces of the building were removed.
Germania,
Freeport, Illinois
With city leaders in a quandary over what
to do with a historic building that had been vacant for many
years, and conflicting reports by unlicensed but well-meaning
citizens, Mike was hired to give a professional opinion on the
structure of the building. Mike presented both a written and
oral report to the City Council, covering the stability of the
walls, floors and roof of each section of the building. He also
presented ADA modifications that would have to be followed if
the building was to be rehabilitated.
Westbrook Engineering
Mike is on-call to review and certify
plans for the structural analysis and computations of temporary
structures as Westbrook designs the means and methods to
construct bridges according to the final plans. Mike has
reviewed pier supports, falsework, shoring, soil retention
systems and other temporary structures critical in Westbrook
Engineering's bridge construction.
