KL Engineering

09/28/2026

Congratulations to Tanner Braatz for passing the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam! Tanner started his career with us as an intern in our Madison office, but recently made the move to our Pewaukee office after graduating and becoming a full-time employee. The FE exam is an important first step to becoming a fully credentialed Professional Engineer. We celebrate your accomplishment, Tanner!

09/25/2026

The Michigan Technological University Fall 2026 Career Fair is coming up and we will have KL team members in attendance! Stop by on Tuesday, September 29th from 12-5 at the Student Development complex. We will be ready to answer any questions you have about internships and career opportunities at KL Engineering. See you there!

09/25/2026

Josh Mercier is celebrating 10 years at KL Engineering this year! He is currently Project Leader I on our Infrastructure Services team in Madison. When asked about what has impacted him the most at KL, he shared:

"What has made my 10 years at KL meaningful comes down to the people I work with and the projects we take on. I’m fortunate to be surrounded by teammates who make the work enjoyable and who support each other day in and day out. The projects themselves keep me engaged and challenged in the best ways. And honestly, one of the biggest indicators of how much I value being here is that I don’t spend Sunday nights dreading Monday. That’s not something everyone gets to say, and I’m grateful for it."

Thank you for your hard work, Josh, and for your dedication to the company. We appreciate you!

09/24/2026

Before we were officially in fall, our Pewaukee office had a summer social!

The team took the opportunity to spend time together outside the office, celebrate summer birthdays, and say goodbye to the interns who worked in the office this summer. It was a great way to spend time together and celebrate a fun summer with the Pewaukee team!

09/24/2026

Stormwater Week continues!

We spend a lot of time calculating how much water fits inside a pipe. Water spends considerably less time worrying about that.

When the pipes are full, streets become channels, low areas become storage, and property owners bear the brunt of the aftermath.

That’s where hydraulic modeling becomes valuable. It allows us to look beyond individual pipes and structures and better understand how water moves through the entire system, both above and below ground.

And while watching a model run can be pretty satisfying for those of us who find that sort of thing entertaining, the model itself isn’t really the point.

"The goal is to make a complicated problem easier to understand, so we can make better decisions about what to do next." - Garek Holley, PE, CFM

09/23/2026

09/23/2026

We're heading to of Wisconsin Milwaukee! KL is excited to connect with future innovators at the Architecture, Engineering, Conservation & Sciences Internship and Career Fair on Tuesday, September 29th from 1-4. Come meet our team, learn about internship opportunities, and discover what it's like to build your future with KL. We can't wait to meet the next generation of talent!

09/22/2026

It's Stormwater Week!

Show me a site where water follows a property line, and I’ll show you a surveyor with a very impressive skill set.

It follows the topography. It finds the low spots. It crosses property lines, overwhelms pipes, carries pollutants downstream, and eventually ends up somewhere.

As KL Engineering continues to grow our Water Resources practice, we asked Water Resources Project Leader Garek Holley what motivates him and drives his vision for water resources engineering:

“One of the greatest, and most rewarding, challenges in water resources engineering is figuring out how the built world fits within the natural one. Unfortunately, water rarely takes the time to review our plans before deciding where it wants to go. Our job is to understand those interactions, make sense of them, and design solutions that work with the landscape while protecting people, property, and infrastructure.”

Sometimes the answer is a bigger pipe or giving water a safer place to go. Other times it’s restoring a stream, protecting a floodplain, improving water quality, or looking beyond property lines to understand what is happening across an entire watershed.

The important part is understanding the problem before designing the solution.

That’s how we’re building into Water Resources at KL Engineering.

09/22/2026

KL Engineering often takes opportunities to sponsor local sports teams and other community groups. Recently, we sponsored a boys volleyball booth at Madison West's Rally for Regents fundraiser. This was a carnival-type event where all sports had a booth related to the sport they were representing. Our families set up a mini-volleyball net for folks to enjoy!

We had a lot of fun at the rally, and are happy to support student athletes. Thank you, Jamie Peterson, for connecting us with the team and the work you do as the head coach of the boys' volleyball team at Madison West High School!

09/21/2026

Jon Blomquist recently attended the 2026 Storm Con, the stormwater industry's premier event connecting stormwater managers, erosion control specialists, and engineers from around North America. At the event, attendees had the opportunity to learn about green infrastructure, flood modeling and mitigation, and more. We hope your time there was valuable, Jon!