September 7, 2016 – ISG is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Green Bay-based Raasch Associates, Inc., better known as Raasch Engineers | Architects, serving as the eighth location to the multi-disciplinary firm’s footprint. For over 20 years, Raasch Engineers | Architects has provided professional design services to some of the largest and most recognizable Industrial clients. Raasch Engineers | Architects has also worked hard to establish solid roots within the state and other critical industries such as Healthcare, Commercial, and Government. With direct expertise in architecture, steam and power, process, and electrical engineering as well as structural and mechanical engineering, Raasch Engineers | Architects increases ISG’s overall professional team to 230+.

July 12, 2016 - The Zweig Group Best Firms to Work For Award polls similar industry firms in the United States and Canada, recognizing and ranking firms based on workplace practices, employee benefits, employee retention rates, and many other factors. ISG was ranked #22 in the Multi-Disciplinary category for the Best Places to Work For Award. With a minimum requirement that at least 40% of employees in a firm of ISG’s size must respond to the detailed survey to be eligible, ISG surpassed standards with over 60% of the firm’s 200+ staff responding.

July 12, 2016 - ISG was recently recognized by the Zweig Group, a privately-held firm and nation’s leader in enhancing business performance for architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting sectors, on the 2016 Hot Firm List and as one of 2016’s Best Firms to Work For.

May 3, 2016 – ISG was recently recognized as one of the country’s leading design firms by Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine’s annual industry rankings. The Top 500 Design Firms list ranks the largest United States based design firms, both publicly and privately held, based on design-specific revenue. ISG, a firm founded in Mankato, Minnesota and has grown to seven offices in three states with clients nationwide, is ranked at 452 in the 2016 list, surpassing last year’s rank of 488.

April 12, 2016 – ISG transportation engineer and community development expert, Will Kratt, PE, recently received the Volunteer of the Year Award at the 25th Wisconsin Main Street Awards held in Marshfield, Wisconsin by the Wisconsin Economic Development Council and Wisconsin Main Street. The event recognized efforts by Main Street volunteers and staff for the historic preservation and downtown economic development efforts of communities throughout Wisconsin.

March 8, 2016 – ISG professional surveyor and civil engineer Dan Stueber was recently sworn in as President-Elect of the Minnesota Society of Professional Surveyors (MSPS) at their past Annual Meeting. Dan served on the MSPS Board of Directors before being sworn in as President-Elect and works with members to develop and promote the land surveying industry. In his role at MSPS, Dan recently helped update the Common Interest Community (CIC) Plat Manual, a statewide guidebook for surveyors.

January 20, 2016 – Minnesota’s fourth Calcareous Fen Management Plan (CFMP), developed by ISG for a mining client, was recently approved by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in cooperation with several state and local agencies. It was the first of its kind aimed at maintaining hydrogeological (groundwater) levels. Calcareous fens are rare and distinctive wetlands that receive continuous groundwater discharge that is calcium enriched through contact with bedrock or glacial deposits