On May 10th, ten of WRA’s volunteers, along with members of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore’s Healthy Harbor Initiative and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, embarked on the Snow Goose with their oysters. After growing for nine months in the Inner Harbor, the oysters were being moved from their cages and transported to the Fort Carroll oyster sanctuary in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to live out the rest of their lives. WRA planted a total of approximately 21,375 oysters for the 2018 program!

Sharyn Fox was recently recognized with the Distinguished Service Award from the APWA Mid-Atlantic Chapter.

Jennifer Sanford-Caples, responsible for Business Development for WRA in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, has been elected to serve on the board of directors for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the American Public Works Association. She was elected and sworn in during the group’s mid-Atlantic conference and will serve for a term of two years. The APWA, chartered in 1938, is an international educational and professional association of public agencies, private sector companies and individuals dedicated to providing high quality public works goods and services.

WRA's Construction Management Services Group of Virginia for being selected as the prime consultant for the Virginia Department of Transportation’s (VDOT) Culpeper Districtwide Construction Engineering and Inspection (CEI) Services contract. With this win, WRA achieves a milestone in securing their first Districtwide CEI contract with VDOT as a prime consultant.

Kevin Williams and Rod Hill, along with representatives from English Construction and the City of Lynchburg, will be presenting, "Lessons Learned: Tuning Up 'The Hill City' – Lynchburg’s Downtown Utility and Streetscape’s Project" at the upcoming APWA Mid-Atlantic Annual Conference and Equipment Show.

WRA ranked on the ENR Top 500 Design Firms list this year. The firm is in at #107 for 2018; up 11 spots from last years rank of #118.

WRA's modeling and data collection team is spending the week collecting information on travel behavior and travel patterns in Grand Cayman. This effort will support the development of a state-of-the-art travel demand and operations model for the national roads authority.

A paper titled “ Interstate Delta Frames: Structural Steel Retrofit and Restoration to Essentially Infinite Fatigue Life, Part II - Structural Response under Service Loading Conditions and Rehabilitation Monitoring” by LOAI F. EL-GAZAIRLY, Ph.D., P.E., Whitman, Requardt and Associates, LLP, Richmond, VA; REX L.

Andrew Li, PE and Terry Legg, PE will be presenting, "Evolution of a UAS (Drone) Program and How it can Benefit Your Organization" at the upcoming 2018 APWA 60th Annual Conference & Equipment Show. The conference is being held May 2-4 at the Fredericksburg Conference and Expo Center.

WRA goes Orange with the West Virginia Department of Highways! WRA was proud to support Work Zone Safety Awareness and the WVDOH by wearing orange on April 11. Melissa Thompson, Cindy Shamblin, and Brian Henschel joined WVDOH in support of work zone safety.