TD2’s Quarterly Newsletter

In this edition, we’re excited to introduce Kim Cushing, TD2’s new Marketing Director, and celebrate longtime team members Ron Koenig and Chris Dyas for their years of dedicated service. We’ll also share insights into TD2’s groundbreaking project at the University of Michigan, spotlight our latest career fair engagements, and welcome everyone to follow TD2 on Instagram for a closer look at our projects and team.

Projects begin with a big vision, and it takes years of planning and design before the first shovel of dirt is turned and construction begins. TD2 has worked on many memorable community projects that create a sense of place and emotional connection.

Download “Placemaking,” the Summer 2024 update on two recent community-building projects: The Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Papillion and the La Vista 84th Street Corridor.

Feeling fatigued by negative press? Well, you can relax with some positive stories we’d like to share about TD2 people and projects in the news.

As the calendar flips to a new year, we begin our newsletter series with a 2023 overview by discipline. Remembering where we’ve been and what has changed.

Download the newsletter to read more flashbacks of a STRATEGIC year for Survey, carrying on THE PERSONAL TOUCH for the firm, finding ROOM 2 GROW for Civil, and finally RISING TO THE OCCASION for Structural.

This month the newsletter looks at TD2’s new drone-mounted LiDAR and the retirement of land surveyor Dave Neef, RLS.

Things happen when the time is right. As we welcome a new drone-mounted LiDAR to our land survey services, we bid farewell to Dave. We will miss him as a colleague and a friend. He has left his mark on TD2, and we are the beneficiaries of his meticulous attention to detail and continue to follow the processes and procedures he put into place.

Eleven years ago, TD2 opened a branch in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. This was a corporate decision to meet an employee and his family’s needs and their desire to go home. It was a good decision. All these years later, the practice has integrated into the community and continues to meet the structural engineering needs of clients across the state.

We’ll briefly tell the story of Josh Storm and his family and then look at two projects; the recently completed Mount Marty Fieldhouse in Yankton, which represents a hybrid of structural systems, and a current project in design, the Brookings Armory and Hotel Indigo, that combines a historic restoration with new construction.

Could you go home again?

There is merit in looking back to move forward. We’ll take this issue to reflect on 2022 and anticipate 2023. Last year we focused on a keyword we learned in 2021, VERSATILITY. The ability to change and adapt remains relevant as we find our new normal.

We continue to embrace versatility as we are not out of the pandemic woods. How we can adapt is always in mind as we navigate the workplace, develop staff, and hire long-term. This next year is unknown, but we are well-prepared to recognize the opportunities, meet the challenges, and shift as the market requires.

What does your new normal look like?

Do you have a construction project in mind? If so, a geotechnical investigation is one of the earliest and most important tasks when developing or redeveloping a site. An investigation gathers crucial information about the physical characteristics of the soil and whether the proposed site is suitable.

Why Test? Clients may wonder why a geotechnical investigation is worth it. The “why” is that the ground beneath us is constantly moving. Soil is localized, changing from site to site, region to region. Testing can be the difference between long-term project success and expensive post-construction remediation.

Can you dig it? Yes, we can.

A Mark Twain quote, “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” introduces our Spring 2022 client newsletter. It seemed appropriate as we replay our March visit to the Millard North Skilled Career Expo. We don’t usually hit the high school career fairs. Still, with the current labor shortage and our need for field interns, we showed up with three surveyors and lots of technical show and tell.

It got us thinking about how we got started. Our surveyors, Mike Smith, Brian Morgan, and Jon Carrell, talked at length during and after the Expo about their own on ramps to land survey and paths to TD2. So we thought we would share some of those backstories with you. It also got us thinking about what advice we would give to students, how we talk about what we do, and the survey opportunities at TD2.

Get started…

We want to wish you a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year! Looking over TD2021, we’ll recap what was new and update what we started back in 2020. And, there are some exciting Things2Come on the project front, so stay tuned.

Third, in the Long-Haul series, this issue focuses on industrial site development projects for a multi-generational client who knows more about long hauls than most. Jon Meyers and the Meyers family have been TD2 clients for decades. Site by site, this relationship has developed numerous industrial parks in the region. Krambeck and Springfield Commerce are two recent industrial-size examples.

Second, in the Long-Haul Series, this issue details how a strong vision and lasting relationships were instrumental in creating a unique West Omaha Catholic Church and School.

Today St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church (SVdP) is a thriving, 3,000+ member family congregation located at 14330 Eagle Run Drive. It is massive at 130,000 SF, and structures like this don’t happen overnight. For SVdP, it spanned decades, phases, and relationships. TD2 has been one of the key sub-consultants that has gone the distance over 27 years of planning and construction with professional and personal ties to the parish.

With some projects, TD2 has played the long game. Involved at the very beginning when developments are just ideas and then going the distance sometimes for decades. West Shores is a case in point. TD2 has been there all the way, with each TD2 discipline playing its part to bring a vision to life.

In Spring 2021, West Shores sees the grand opening of A View, a private commercial large event venue, 20+ years after a bean field transformed into an upscale neighborhood. In this issue, we have two stories to tell. Once Upon A Time In Waterloo…

There were bright spots in the storm that was 2020. Here is a rundown of the good things for TD2 that occurred during a challenging year. These successes have been our 2020 silver lining. We are hopeful for TD2021 and wish you a Happy New Year.

In this third and final issue in our 2020 Bread and Butter series, we spotlight TD2’s Structural Departments designs for podium buildings. And highlight recent, current, and Things2Come projects with various architects and developers.

This is the second issue in our core series of newsletters digging into TD2’s Land Survey house staking service and working with homebuilders. It follows and complements the Spring issue and illustrates that just as you can’t have a successful neighborhood without the civil infrastructure, you can’t build the houses without staking them first.

The Spring 2020 newsletter deals with the civil engineering services we provide every day and showcases our expertise in large-scale single-family neighborhoods and mixed-use developments blending commercial with multi-family.

The Winter 2020 issue announces our new look to the website, new equipment, latest updates on projects to watch, and new engineers.