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May 29, 2014
Michael Walsh
Earlier this year, the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) storm surge barrier in New Orleans, Louisiana, was awarded the 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement award, the society's project of the year. This is a prominent and substantial award…
April 3, 2014
Dave Maune
In January 2008 I visited Alaska for the first time and had the opportunity to brief members of the Alaska Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative (SDMI) on Dewberry's experience in the production of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), which would be critical for any new mapping of the state. They…
March 20, 2014
Bill Wood and Laurel McGinley
In a 13-year joint venture, Dewberry was part of team of architects and engineers who provided total facility program management for more than 25 million square feet of the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Job Corps Program. The program supports more than 60,000 disadvantaged youth with educational…
January 30, 2014
In April of 2013, Sasha Reed of Building Design + Construction magazine wrote an article on implementing futuristic AEC technologies, like BIM, into general work plans. What stood out specifically was her analysis of how general adoption is preceded by public entities: "When a city or municipality…
March 21, 2013
Having recently been appointed to the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) task force on emergency evacuation (ANB80T), I'm looking forward to sharing my experiences and beliefs with decision makers, planners, and operators who play critical roles in planning and implementing disaster evacuations.
February 14, 2013
Jim Matarelli and Meg Bower
Incorporating effective strategies for sustainability with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
November 29, 2012
Jerri Daniels
While working on flood risk management projects, not only do we work with our client, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but we also work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), community officials, and levee authorities to combine data and information that will be used to…
September 27, 2012
With the hoopla surrounding both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions over, the emergency management world can get back to its regularly scheduled program of preparing, mitigating, responding, and recovering from predominantly natural hazards.
September 13, 2012
John Hoffman
More and more federal contracts require an earned value management system—a technique for measuring project performance through tracking scope, schedule, and cost—as a basis for tracking project performance. Most believe this is a complicated system. However, once you get past the formulas and…
July 19, 2012
Catherine Bohn
As part of Dewberry's Disaster Cadre, my first deployment was in 1999, providing geospatial support of FEMA mitigation efforts after Hurricane Floyd.
February 9, 2012
For watersheds with sparse stream gauge data and regulatory structures (as in reservoirs), watershed modeling remains the only method available to compute discharge values—although difficult to calibrate. Statewide regression equations published by the U.S. Geological Survey cannot be applied for…
February 2, 2012
Shandi Treloar
On Tuesday, February 7, at 10:15 a.m. CST, nine states across the central U.S. will participate in this year’s second annual Great Central U.S. ShakeOut. The drill will start when the National Weather Service sends a tone-alert to the NOAA Weather Radio. The radio will tell those listening to…
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