Our communities are constantly struggling to balance economic development with orderly growth, sound infrastructure, sustainable rates, and balanced budgets.
Ruekert & Mielke, Inc. (R/M) experts partner with municipalities like yours to build stronger, safer, and happier communities. Our employees aren’t just engineers, financial analysts, or technology experts; we live, work, and play in the communities we serve. Our understanding of your daily challenges and your citizens’ expectations give us an authentic perspective to create the best strategies for tackling a wide range of problems, from pavement management to infrastructure planning.
Cutting-edge technology provides your community with increased efficiency and better decision making. R/M is at the forefront of municipal innovation, developing solutions such as digital construction reporting, cloud-based GIS, SCADA systems, and asset management tools to provide our clients with intuitive solutions to solving community goals.
Services
“The most valuable service I get from R/M is personal attention. Our City Engineer lives here. He is a taxpayer with ties to the community. He is one of us, above and beyond the professional qualifications.”
Development Review
Infrastructure Planning
Pavement Management
Capital Improvement Planning
Surveying
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Road/Utility Design
Construction Administration
Adjacent to Pewaukee Lake, the Oak Street and Peninsula Road area had a combination of poor water quality, poor soils, and a long, densely-populated road that needed to be reconstructed. With narrow right-of-ways, this made the installation of utilities and road reconstruction a significant challenge. The soft underlying soils required full-width excavation of the roads and presented a potential restriction on emergency services during construction.
Ruekert & Mielke, Inc. (R/M) was chosen to provide a condition assessment and long-term solution options in order to extend the life of the culverts underneath State Fair Park. The R/M team looked beyond the pipe’s internal conditions and investigated the surrounding environment to determine contributing factors to the culvert failure and future rehabilitation needs.
The South Lake Shore Drive Reconstruction project resulted from the 7-Year Capital Improvement Plan that RM drafted for the Village in 2018. S Lake Shore Drive was in poor overall condition, had limited pedestrian and bicycle access, and was plagued by many water main breaks.
In August 2015, the City, in an effort to stimulate commercial and manufacturing growth, created Tax Incremental Financing District (TIF) #4. This District is located 1 mile from the STH 151 and STH 16/60 interchange making it a desirable location due to the transportation corridor on STH 16. Increasing the transportation infrastructure in the TIF proved to be crucial to attracting employers. In 2017, Drexel Building Supply began constructing a showroom and lumberyard on the condition that the existing Hall Road would be extended eastward to Columbus-Fall River Road.
Allen Road in the City of Oconomowoc was a rural cross section street in poor condition with drainage problems, encroaching wetlands, safety, and capacity issues.
Glendale Drive in the City of New Berlin was a rural cross section street with insufficient drainage that often flooded in a five to ten year storm. The design solution included upgrading the road from a rural to urban section, but also handling a large amount of storm water flow that entered the project site from three distinct points.
The Village of Dousman desired to update the area along Main Street to revitalize the downtown and positively influence the business climate. The aging and failing pavement and underground infrastructure pushed the Village into moving forward with this project.
Ruekert & Mielke, Inc. (R/M) supervised the reconstruction of portions of South Street, Third Street and South Main Street in the City of Oconomowoc. The project involved rehabilitation of the sanitary sewers and water mains, as well as a complete reconstruction of the urban crosssection streets, including storm sewer, curb and gutter, decorative street lighting, and brick paved terraces and cross walks.
