Engineering and Design


KC Wheel To Open Its 36 Doors In November

Posted October 12, 2023  [gallery size="medium" ids="41421,41422,41420"] The 150-foot-tall Ferris wheel in Downtown, named the KC Wheel, announced the grand opening to the public is just right around the corner.  The Ferris wheel and the accompanied Pennyway Putt, a 16-hole… more

Ingram’s September 2023 Digital Edition

You can read all about the Ingram's 250 in the September Digital Edition here.   more

EV Component Manufacturer Selects KC For Its North American HQ

Posted August 2, 2023 Cnano Technology USA, Inc. announced Wednesday plans to invest $94.7 million in a 333,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at the Commerce Center, bringing 112 jobs to the facility and $7.1 million in payroll. The new facility will produce… more

Region Leaders Join on Rock Island Bridge

Dozens of local leaders, developers and media from both Kansas and Missouri gathered on the Rock Island Bridge Tuesday to celebrate its progress and the idea of binding the two states together. With little ground under their feet, the groundbreaking… more

Burns & McDonnell’s Kowalik to Retire at Year-End

Burns & McDonnell, the Kansas City region's biggest engineering/construction company, announced this morning that chairman and CEO Ray Kowalik would retire at the end of 2023. Kowalik succeeded Greg Graves in that role in 2017, becoming just the seventh CEO… more

July 2021 Digital Edition

Ingram’s July 2021 Digital Edition     more

Olathe-based Terracon buys Texas environmental company

Terracon Consultants Inc. announced  its acquisition of a Midland, Tex. company, Sport Environmental Services LLC. Sport Environmental is Terracon’s second acquisition this year, joining GET Solutions Inc. of Virginia, and is its 14th acquisition since 2017. Terracon has offices in… more

Burns & McDonnell pushes to $5.3B revenue over last year

Kansas City-based Burns & McDonnell hit a record year of sales, producing $5.3 billion, supporting 15,000 projects and adding more than 600 employees. With the news of the construction engineering company’s financial success comes news of several leadership promotions including… more

Construction Executives Poised to Move Ahead

The past year has brought considerable tumult to the nation’s economy, but somewhat surprisingly, the construction and design sector in this region seems to fare somewhat better than in other parts of the country. A survey by the Association of… more

KC-based Burns & McDonnell expands, adds Ohio office

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