History
Burns & McDonnell opened office in this year.
When is 1898?
Newton Campbell, chair and CEO from 1985 to 1994, led the pivotal 1985 employee buyout from Armco Steel, establishing this tax-qualified retirement plan that makes the firm entirely employee owned.
What is an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)?
Built to expand and consolidate operations at its Ward Parkway campus in Kansas City, this 310,000-square-foot, four-story facility was named Project of the Year by the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA)
What is the Burns & McDonnell World Headquarters?
This massive global practice—the firm's largest—helps keep the lights on by designing and upgrading the electrical grid, substations, and power lines.
What is T&D?
First launched in 2022, this easy-to-remember three-digit phone number serves as the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the United States.
What is 988?
The Minneapolis office initially opened in this year.
When is 2007?
Serving as president from 1984 to 2003 and later adding the title of CEO, he guided the firm through its historic 100-year centennial anniversary in 1998.
Who is Dave G. Ruf Jr.?
The firm designed a unique aerospace facility at the Houston Spaceport to build lunar landers, which are spacecraft built to land on this celestial body.
What is the Moon?
This global practice focuses on building the physical infrastructure of projects, providing direct-hire construction and construction management services.
What is CDB?
United Way began at this major city in 1887 when a woman, a priest, two ministers, and a rabbi united to coordinate local charitable services.
Where is Denver, Colorado?
Burns & McDonnell became a 100% employee-owned Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) firm in this year.
When is 1986?
Leslie Duke is the _____ CEO in Burns & McDonnell's history.
What is 8th?
This massive California aviation terminal expansion stands as one of the largest and most profitable design-build efforts in the firm's history.
What is the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) modernization?
There are _____ Global Practices located in the Upper Midwest Region.
What is seven?
The Greater Twin Cities United Way began in ______.
Burns & McDonnell earned their first profit of 13 cents in this year.
When is 1900?
First awarded in 2023, a Burns & McDonnell community service honor was named in tribute to this former CEO that grew the firm's charitable foundation to over $30 million.
Who is Greg Graves?
In 1905, Burns & McDonnell designed its first _____ in Garnett, Kansas.
What is a dam?
The first GP located in the Bloomington office was ____.
What is A&F?
In 2025, the Burns & McDonnell United Way Campaign helped ______ people.
Who is 2,806 people?
Burns & McDonnell's first office was located at 9th Street and _____.
What is Wyandotte Street?
During Ray Kowalik’s tenure as the 7th CEO for Burns & McDonnell, the firm experienced rapid growth and job creation, growing to ______ employee-owners.
The first recorded project for the newly established Burns & McDonnell Consulting Engineers consisted in a client borrowing __________ belonging to the firm
What is a set of surveying instruments?
In 2012, the _______ Group divided into the Water and Transportation groups. This reconfiguration brought our global practice count to 11.
What is Infrastructure?
This annual Greater Twin Cities United Way event receives heavily coordinated support from all of Minnesota's professional sports teams and volunteers to pack backpacks for local students. Today, the event gathers thousands of volunteers at the Saint Paul River Centre to pack 60,000 backpacks in a single day.
What is Action Day?