The weather is getting cooler as summer officially comes to an end this week. The smell of fall is in the air, students are back to school, and busy summer construction schedules have slowed down a tad. This gets me… Continue Reading
In early May I attended the Health Facilities Institute 28th Annual Symposium and listened to an inspiring talk by David Morgareidge and Sean Carr of Page Architects, a firm filled with cutting-edge thinkers. Their presentation was on the use of… Continue Reading
In an ideal world, every underground utility is accurately identified, located, and mapped before project design and construction. The reality is that this approach can be costly, and sometimes the site conditions aren’t suitable even without budget constraints. Unless absolutely… Continue Reading
Learning is Part of the Job One of the best aspects of being a professional engineer is that we continuously learn about engineering and our world. Reid Middleton recently began work on a project in Peru, and after we visited… Continue Reading
When I was a kid (we won’t go into how many scores of years ago that was!) I remember marveling at the crud (okay,”scale”) that would build up on the bottom of my Mom’s teapot after gallons and gallons of… Continue Reading