Bialobreski receives 40 Leaders Under Forty honor

        Kurt Bialobreski, P.E., PTOE, a traffic engineer at Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Peoria, Ill., office, recently was selected as a member of this year’s 40 Leaders Under Forty class by InterBusiness Issues magazine. 
       This is the 21st year the Peoria-based magazine, a publication of Central Illinois Business Publishers, has recognized individuals who demonstrate leadership in their professions and communities. A panel of judges selected this year’s class out of 136 nominations. Bialobreski and other central Illinois residents comprising the 2014 class were honored Nov. 6 at an awards ceremony at Par-A-Dice Hotel Casino in East Peoria, Ill., and featured in the November issue of InterBusiness Issues.
       Bialobreski serves as a project manager and traffic engineer on transportation and infrastructure projects throughout the country, including two recent, high-profile Peoria projects: the Warehouse District revitalization and the Washington Street corridor update. He was selected in April as a 2014 Rising Star in Civil Engineering by ZweigWhite’s Civil + Structural Engineer magazine. In 2012, Bialobreski was named Young Engineer of the Year by the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Central Illinois Section. He is a member of ASCE, the American Public Works Association, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association policy committee for autonomous vehicles and vehicle-to-vehicle communication and the Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee in Pekin, Ill. He has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
      Hanson is a national, employee-owned consulting firm providing engineering, planning and allied services. The Peoria regional office is located at 7625 N. University St., Suite 200, Peoria, IL 61614. The office may be reached by phone at (309) 691-0902.