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Happy Holidays from all of us at GFT! 💚🌟 It’s been a year full of big changes, and we’re excited for everything ahead. Thanks so much to our amazing employees, clients, and partners for all your support. Wishing you a joyous holiday season and a prosperous year to come!
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Our own Daven Oswalt joined the Engineering Management Institute for its AEC Leadership Podcast! In this wide-ranging interview, Daven discussed: 🤝 How collaborative program management fosters innovation, client trust, and success. 💧 The business case for clean water and why it matters to communities everywhere. 🏆 How to build a high-performing, resilient team ready to adapt and lead through change.
Daven Oswalt Joins Engineering Management Institute for AEC Leadership Podcast
Award-winning ingenuity at North Wilkesboro Speedway! 🏁 Ahead of the 2025 NASCAR All-Star weekend, GFT partnered with NCDOT and Wilkes County to design a bowstring truss pedestrian bridge for 20,000 racing fans in just six months. The result? Safer experiences, faster traffic flow, an iconic “Winston Cup red” landmark — and a Grand Award from ACEC/NC’s 2026 Engineering Excellence Awards. 🏆
GFT, Clients Honored with 2026 ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards
With a passion for design and unique architecture, Farzana Anika’s people-centered approach shapes civic, education, and transit spaces across New York City! 🏙 Explore how Farzana supports projects from concept through construction, bringing curiosity, collaboration, and thoughtful design to every assignment.
Meet Farzana Anika!
Creativity with a cause! 💛 At this year’s Canstruction New York Design Competition, our team took home the Best Meal Award for our design, Link’s Awake-CAN-ing: The All-Mighty Vegan Paella. Even better, every can used in our structure will go on to help feed those in need! Inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, and built entirely from canned goods, our sculpture celebrates nourishment, sustainability, and inclusion — bringing people together through a vegan take on paella, a dish that symbolizes unity and global connection.
NYC Canstruction | Creativity With a Cause
With nearly 20 years of bridge design and design-build experience, Nathan Richmond shares field-tested insights and best practices from major bridge projects, highlighting how collaboration, constructability, and quality drive design-build success in our latest blog!
5 Lessons from the Field in Design-Build Delivery
From AI in transportation to transit planning lessons learned from The Eras Tour, our latest newsletter shares insights on inclusive design, safer transit, aviation upgrades, and risk reduction.
Infrastructure of Life: October 2025
Today, we honor the courage, service, and sacrifice of our veterans, and we’re especially proud to celebrate the veterans within our GFT family. Their experiences remind us of what it means to lead with integrity, resilience, and purpose. To all veterans - we thank you! Discover some of our veteran employees’ stories at the link below.
Happy Veterans Day | GFT Veteran Employee Stories
Isaac Renteria, CPSM, blends strategy and daily action to fuel client success! Learn more about how he builds strong client relationships, champions collaboration, and helps shape opportunities for long-term impact.
Meet Isaac Renteria!