WRA is pleased to be ranked #23 among the Top Design Firms for its Bridge work. Annually, Engineering News Record publishes a Sourcebook and ranks firms based on the previous year's revenue.

WRA ranked #44 among the Top Design Firms in Transportation in the Sourcebook, published annually by Engineering News Record. The ranking is based on revenue reported in 2019.

AASHTO Daily Transportation Update featured the I-270 Interchange at Watkins Mill Road Extended (WMRE) in the Highways/Streets Section.  WRA performed the preliminary and final engineering design services for WMRE. The design features a 623-foot long, 5-span, steel plate girder structure carrying ten lanes of traffic, a 1,439-foot Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) retaining wall ramp structure, and a 720-foot MSE wall supported ramp providing an on-ramp to I-270 from the middle of the WMRE span.

Engineering News Record ranks the Top 500 Design Firms in the country, according to revenue for design services performed in 2019. WRA ranked #109, up from #111 last year. 

Councilman Ryan Dorsey, author of Baltimore’s Complete Streets legislation, obtained a $400,000 grant from the Maryland State Highway Administration to reshape Harford Road through the business district of the City’s Hamilton neighborhood. The Baltimore City Department of Transportation’s (BCDOT’s) goals for the project included improved safety, slower and safer vehicle turning speeds, improved walkability, better accessibility for cyclists, and transit improvements.

Senior Vice-President, Jeremy Schlussel, and Associate, Bruce English, accepted the ACEC/VA Honor Award for the Jamestown-Scotland Ferry Dolphin Replacement.

Senior Vice-President, Dan Seli, accepted the ACEC/VA Merit Award for the Sedimentation Basin Improvements for the City of Richmond.

The Vesper Street Shared Use Path in Hunter Mill District, Tysons, Fairfax, VA was awarded the 2020 Project of the Year, Projects Less Than $5M Transportation Category by APWA MidAtlantic.

WRA designed the full renovation of this three-story, 42,000 SF historic building to provide a new modern, secure, flexible work environment for operations support. The building includes offices, open office flexible work areas, collaboration spaces, conference rooms, VTC conference rooms, secure office work areas, touch down secure communications cafe, a special access program space, break rooms, and storage. 

In a press release dated February 27, The American Council of Engineering Companies of Pennsylvania (ACEC/PA) announced WRA as the 2020 Small Projects winner for the completion of the State Route 0208 Pulaski Bridge over Deer Creek project.  ACEC/PA Release.pdf