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Throughout the ages, his words and spirit have touched our hearts, inspired our minds and challenged our nation: Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States. In 2004, Springfield officially welcomed visitors and dignitaries to a new world-class library, and, in 2005 to a museum designed to honor Abraham Lincoln's life, work and legacy. During this unprecedented, history-in-the-making project, Hanson Professional Services Inc. was selected as the structural engineer for the library and museum complex. Both the library's and the museum's designs were based on their contents. The library houses the world's largest collection of pre-presidential Lincoln material and all together, its holdings number in the millions. The museum includes 40,000 square feet of permanent exhibit space, twice the size of any other presidential museum, and contains the world's largest collection of Lincoln documents. This building, with its multi-media exhibits, enables visitors to become engrossed in the total experience, uninterrupted by structural elements. 
Illinois DOT's Kingery Expressway improvement project widens I-80/94 from six lanes to 12 at IL-83, and widens IL-83 from four lanes to six. Retaining a cloverleaf interchange design was not feasible, due to the required right-of-way increases and severe impacts to surrounding businesses. A Single Point Urban Interchange design offered an efficient and compact solution for providing all-way access between the expressway and IL-83. However locating the enormous interchange on bridge deck above the expressway demanded a unique structural solution. Teng & Associates, Inc. developed and designed an elevated interchange structure that goes beyond the conventional definition of "bridge". Curved and intersecting steel framing create a structure closely conformed to the deck area required by traffic geometry and pedestrian uses. Complex in design, the structure is simple in appearance and efficient in operation. The design was successfully bid and constructed for a price consistent with that of conventional bridges. 
Chicago's Household Materials and Electronics Recycling Center includes a 4,320 square foot recycling facility and an 8,470 square foot training center. The center collects and processes household hazardous waste (HHW) and used electronics, protecting the environment from the effects of improper disposal.
To increase the Village of Algonquin's water supply, AB&H, A Donohue Group designed a new water treatment plant that uses a low-pressure immersed membrane system. The membrane system effectively treats shallow aquifer water that is filled with high concentrations of iron bacteria. The membranes also provide superior, reliable removal of harmful microorganisms and other nuisance particles. 
Each fall when students would return to this college town, the complaints would pour in about the funny taste and smell of the water. The City of Charleston determined that a new water treatment plant with an ozone system would be the answer to this long-standing problem. 
The Montgomery Point Lock and Dam Project is a navigation project designed to improve navigation conditions in the White River Entrance Channel located in Arkansas. This Channel constitutes the first segment (10 miles) of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. The project features a dam consisting of a unique 300 ft. wide gated navigable pass, a 200 ft. wide ungated overflow spillway, and a 110 ft. wide by 600 ft. long navigation lock. The navigable pass includes 10 hydraulically operated hinged crest gates, placed side by side. All gates are normally submerged in the lowered position, allowing vessels to pass over them. As the downstream Mississippi River stages fall, the gates are raised to maintain minimum navigable depths upstream, and vessels pass through the lock. The project includes a unique dewatering structure for maintaining 6 navigable pass gates simultaneously, and a SCADA system for remote operation of the facilities.
The I-74 project began in the late 1980s with the intended scope to be a rehabilitation of the corridor. However, it soon became clear that I-74 needed brand new pavement and that most of the existing bridges should be removed and replaced. This opened the door for a complete reconstruction and improvement of the 11-mile corridor. The design team overcame numerous challenges associated with reconstructing the interstate to meet current standards, while increasing it's capacity, safety and efficiency. This project pioneered Context Sensitive Solutions by heavily involving the community in aesthetic decisions, creating a corridor that compliments the unique architecture of the Peoria area. Working together with IDOT, seven design consultants produced a first class transportation facility that better serves the local community and the traveling public.
The Naperville Auto Test Track is a 7-acre facility located in Naperville, Illinois that provides a way for automobile customers to safely test drive passenger cars, light trucks and sport utility vehicles in a closed environment. The track is designed to allow drivers to experience everyday road conditions during their test drive, such as asphalt roadway, a railroad crossing, along with some unusual conditions like a cobblestone surface area, high bank testing area, skid pad, and an SUV testing area with a hill climb and rough road section.
The purpose of the Keystone Connection was to create a shorter, more efficient, fully Norfolk Southern (NS) owned route to serve Reliant Energy's Keystone Generating Station in Shelocta, Pennsylvania. NS previously delivered coal by a route comprised of NS tracks and derailment prone track owned by various carriers and utilized through track rights.
In Summer 2004, the Illinois Tollway initiated a program to create express lanes through their mainline plazas, allowing the electronic collection of tolls at freeway speeds. The program was named "Open Road Tolling" (ORT)." The Tollway set an extremely ambitious goal of project completion by October 2006, and hired Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company to help manage the project. Our partnership supervised the development of new building concepts, infrastructure, plaza geometry, signing, review processes and contract management specifically for the program, along with an innovative overlap of the design and construction phases.
The Montgomery Point Lock and Dam Project is a navigation project designed to improve navigation conditions in the White River Entrance Channel located in Arkansas. This Channel constitutes the first segment (10 miles) of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. The project features a dam consisting of a unique 300 ft. wide gated navigable pass, a 200 ft. wide ungated overflow spillway, and a 110 ft. wide by 600 ft. long navigation lock. The navigable pass includes 10 hydraulically operated hinged crest gates, placed side by side. All gates are normally submerged in the lowered position, allowing vessels to pass over them. As the downstream Mississippi River stages fall, the gates are raised to maintain minimum navigable depths upstream, and vessels pass through the lock. The project includes a unique dewatering structure for maintaining 6 navigable pass gates simultaneously, and a SCADA system for remote operation of the facilities.