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For Immediate Release, 11 November 2008
For More Information, Contact:
Karen Wiesneski
262-317-3292
Brad Severson, R.A. Smith National’s Appleton Office, Earns Roundabout Designer Certification and Professional Engineering Registration
 BROOKFIELD, WIS. – Brad Severson, civil engineer in the transportation division of the Appleton office of R.A. Smith National (formerly R.A. Smith & Associates and its National Survey & Engineering Division) – civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, GIS and 3D visualization consultants – recently earned his certification as a Level 2 Roundabout Designer (authorized to design single and dual-lane roundabouts) by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), as well as his Wisconsin professional engineering registration.
Severson’s specialty is the design and analysis of modern roundabouts. He is one of only 10 people certified to design two-lane roundabouts in Wisconsin. Severson has completed approximately 60 roundabout designs throughout Wisconsin, a few of which include roundabouts at the State Highway 145 interchanges with U.S.Highways 41 and 45 and the entrance to Cabela’s retail development, Village of Richfield, Washington County, Wisconsin; State Highway 26, City of Watertown, Dodge/Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin (total of 10 roundabouts); and County HighwayP/Pleasant Valley Road, Village of Jackson, Washington County, Wisconsin.
Severson is also responsible for the design and evaluation of urban and rural highway facilities for WisDOT, county highway departments and local units of government. His experience includes hydrologic and drainage design, construction staging and traffic control design and implementation, signing and pavement marking design, preliminary and final roadway design, and quantity calculations and cost estimates.
Severson has a bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering with an emphasis on construction engineering and management from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Severson lives in the town of Freedom.
About R.A. Smith National, Inc.
R.A. Smith National, Inc., www.rasmithnational.com, is a multi-disciplinary consulting engineering firm. It is one of Wisconsin’s largest civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, geographic information system (GIS) and 3D visualization consulting firms with 200 total employees. The company is headquartered in Brookfield, Wis. with offices in Appleton, Oshkosh and Madison, Wis. and Tarentum (Pittsburgh), Pa. R.A. Smith National serves state and local government and the land development industry.
Established in 1978 as R.A. Smith & Associates, Inc., the firm acquired National Survey & Engineering in 1994. National Survey & Engineering, founded in 1929, operated as a division of R.A. Smith & Associates, Inc. until the R.A. Smith National brand was created in March 2008.
The company has been the recipient of several awards, the most recent of which include Milwaukee Magazine’s Best Employers to Work For in Southeastern Wisconsin in 2008, ranked No. 11 in the medium-size company category (101 to 499 employees). The firm previously was recognized for the same award in 2001, 2003 and 2005. The firm received The Business Journal’s Beyond the Paycheck award in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and its Top Milwaukee Workplaces 2007 award. Nationally, the firm was recognized by CE News’ Best Civil Engineering Firms to Work For, for the last four consecutive years, in 2007 ranked No. 7 among medium-sized civil engineering firms nationwide.
R.A. Smith National’s mission is to design with vision, deliver excellence, and provide the most responsive service to our clients. The company is driven by core values that include accountability, client satisfaction, innovation, positive work environment, ethics and integrity, and community and professional involvement.
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