2025 EEA Gala Program

EEA Gala Sponsors

Bar Sponsor
AET is an employee-owned engineering consulting and testing firm, specializing in environmental, geotechnical, pavement, and forensic engineering; construction materials engineering and testing; petrography/chemistry; nondestructive testing; and building performance, forensics, and testing services.

Music Sponsor
At Alliant, we have been providing our expertise and experience to clients’ projects for 30 years, and we aren’t slowing down. As we celebrate this milestone anniversary in 2025, our civil engineers, landscape architects, planners, and land surveyors continue to strive for the next great solution while mentoring the next group of emerging leaders. As an established employee-owned company, we maintain a commitment to excellence, collaboration, and integrity, bringing value to our employees, clients, and communities.

Happy Hour Sponsor
HDR is a 100% employee-owned professional services firm. Founded over a century ago to bring electricity to a changing world, we are now a global company specializing in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. With more than 300 team members local to Minnesota, our success in built and natural environments continues as we collaborate to solve our clients' and communities' most complex challenges.

Platinum Sponsors
At Barr Engineering Co., we put ourselves in your shoes—understanding what’s at stake and taking on your toughest challenges. In 1966, Barr was incorporated in Minnesota as an employee-owned firm with 16 employees. To provide the exceptional service, expertise, and sustainable solutions our clients have come to rely on, our geographic footprint continues to expand. You’ll now find our team in 17 offices across the U.S. and Canada. More than a thousand dedicated employee-owners develop lasting engineering and environmental solutions for clients, communities, and the environment. We’re passionate about our work—and the outcomes we deliver.

Bolton & Menk, Inc. specializes in providing community infrastructure solutions. We take care of our clients by providing quality services and the right solutions for their needs. With more than 35 locations, we're local. Our team is made up of more than 1,000 multiregional employees including a professional staff of more than 300 engineers, planners, landscape architects, and surveyors. We're Real People offering Real Solutions.

Since 1966, LHB has been behind many innovative, thoughtful, and future-focused design solutions and services. We’re set apart by the diversity of services we offer and markets we serve. Our 230+ staff approach each project as a challenge and an opportunity, leveraging our collective knowledge to offer dynamic solutions.”

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Diverse perspectives drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible. The Stantec community unites approximately 32,000 employees, including more than 450 staff based the Twin Cities, St. Cloud, Rochester, and Duluth.

Established in 1910, TKDA is a 100 percent employee-owned company of engineers, architects, planners, and specialized experts solving client challenges across four primary markets: Industrial and Manufacturing, Transportation, Buildings and Sites, and Water. Our team prioritizes providing clients with exceptional services, improving communities, helping businesses and industries grow, and building long-term client relationships. We help clients every day to realize their vision while meeting critical timetables and budget constraints. The key to this success is our integrated engineering, architecture, and planning services, combined with an unwavering commitment to project management excellence.

Gold Sponsors

Coleman & Erickson, LLC focuses on architects, engineers and the concrete construction industry: sage advice and counsel tempered by years of experience.

Kimley-Horn is an engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firm with more than 8,400 employees in 135+ offices nationwide. Kimley-Horn’s wide range of consulting services includes municipal engineering, roadways and bridges, land development, traffic engineering, water/sewer systems, aviation, landscaping, transit planning and engineering, and ITS. Staff consists of civil, transportation, and systems engineers; urban land planners; environmental specialists; landscape architects and urban designers; and computer/systems specialists.

WSP USA Inc. (WSP), has been delivering innovative infrastructure solutions for our Minnesota client’s for nearly three decades.  Operating for more than 140 years, since designing and overseeing the construction of the New York subway, WSP is one of our nation’s longest continuously operating engineering firms with over 20,000 employees in more than 300 offices across the United States. After more than a century, we still follow the aspiration of our founders - to bring a culture of innovation, reliability, and service to our clients.  Our nearly 200 Minnesota-based professionals have worked on a variety of projects for local clients. Our transportation design and planning practices specialize in transportation planning; environmental studies; highway and roadway design; bridge and structures, transit design and program management services; traffic engineering; geotechnical and water resources. Our success is attributed to our drive for quality; our reputation for technical excellence; our collaborative approach; and most importantly, our commitment to our clients’ success.

Bronze Sponsors:

Kraus-Anderson Insurance

SRF Consulting Group