September 2005

Company Project Receives “Award of Excellence”

Mead & Hunt is proud to announce our Tulip City Airport tunnel project received the "Award of Excellence" from the Associated Builders and Contractors of Western Michigan. The award for this project will be handed to Kent Companies, Inc. of Grand Rapids for their excellence in constructing Mead & Hunt's design of the Holland Tunnel project at the Tulip City Airport. This project was the largest capital improvement project ever undertaken by the city of Holland, MI. Roads were relocated and a four lane tunnel was constructed to prepare for a 1,000 foot runway extension and correction of runway safety area deficiencies at Tulip City Airport. The tunnel took more than a year to complete and opened on
December 14, 2004.

More than 40 people within Mead & Hunt worked on this project throughout the design and construction process. This project involved every aspect of engineering design, from structural design to the mechanical systems, including fans in the tunnel and the storm water pump station. The lighting on this project was in excess of $600,000. Each of these systems needed to be tied together by a sophisticated control system to provide automatic operation in the event of an emergency.

Mead & Hunt, named by CE News three years in a row as one of the top 10 engineering company to work for in the nation, provides professional services in architecture, historic preservation, transportation, infrastructure, and water resources engineering to clients throughout the US. Recognized as one of the fastest rising architectural and engineering firms by the Zweig Letter Hot Firm list in 2005, Mead & Hunt also remained strong on the Engineering News Record's Top 500 design firm list in 2005. Mead & Hunt is an employee-owned, privately held corporation that employs about 280 people in offices nationwide.