May 2006

Kennedy honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

Terrance L. Kennedy, PE, Vice President of Mead & Hunt has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Construction Club of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have had an impact on the industry and have shown an interest in helping students develop the necessary skills to be successful in the engineering field. 

Kennedy currently sits on the Wisconsin Building Code Council and has served as an industry mentor in the UW Civil and Environmental Engineering Department’s senior level Capstone Course. 

Kennedy is the second Mead & Hunt employee to receive this award, following in the footsteps of Daniel W. Mead (posthumously) who was honored in 2002.

A native of Wausau, Kennedy graduated from UW-Madison in 1967, and two days later began a 39-year career with Mead & Hunt.  Kennedy manages building system and heavy structure development projects, including duties as structural engineer and architectural designer on new construction, renovation, and rehabilitation work.

During his acceptance speech, Kennedy shared “Why does someone spend their career at one place?  The answer is simple – it’s the people with whom I’ve been privileged to associate.” He continued, “Mead & Hunt is a very special company with tremendous values of togetherness, family, and camaraderie ... I’ve never worked a day in my career.”

Mead & Hunt, named by CE News as one of the top 10 engineering companies to work for in the nation, provides professional services in architecture, historic preservation, and in transportation, infrastructure, and water resources engineering to clients throughout the US.  Recently recognized as the fastest rising architectural and engineering firm by the Zweig Letter Hot Firm list, Mead & Hunt remains strong on the Engineering News Record’s Top 500 design firm list.  Mead & Hunt is an employee-owned corporation that employs more than 300 people in offices nationwide.