FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 14, 2016
Contact: Darrel Berry, Marketing Communications Manager
Hanson Professional Services Inc.
(217) 747-9291
dberry@hanson-inc.com
Gibbs marks five years at Hanson’s headquarters
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Shawn Gibbs, an environmental specialist at Hanson Professional Services Inc., recently celebrated five years of service at the firm’s Springfield headquarters.
Gibbs joined Hanson in 2011 and prepares environmental assessments and permit applications and conducts aquatic habitat and wildlife assessments, threatened and endangered species surveys, wetland delineations and mitigation monitoring. She has provided services for projects including a Tier 2 environmental impact assessment for a planned railroad flyover south of Springfield; a sinkhole mitigation and runway rehabilitation at Monroe County Airport in Bloomington, Indiana; and Bowman Field’s area safety program in Louisville, Kentucky. She helped prepare an environmental assessment for the planned new eastbound span of the McClugage Bridge in Peoria, and she provides geographic information systems support for the South Suburban Airport project in Peotone.
She received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology in 2008 from Millikin University and in 2011 from the University of Illinois Springfield, respectively.
Hanson is a national, employee-owned consulting firm providing engineering, planning and allied services. The firm’s corporate headquarters is located at 1525 S. Sixth St., Springfield, IL 62703. The office may be reached by phone at (217) 788-2450.
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