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August 26, 2020
Brian Mayfield
One of the ironies of the quality assurance process in the remote sensing industry is that the term seems to mean different things to different professionals, companies, and agencies. The varied interpretations of the process mean that, unfortunately, clients don’t always receive the same quality…
August 26, 2020
Paul Manno
On September 18, 2001, just one week after the 9/11 attacks, I was deployed to the World Trade Center site as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Public Assistance Recovery Program. While working at both ground zero in New York City and at the Staten Island Landfill, I…
August 26, 2020
Bill Massey
As we prepare for the peak months of the Atlantic hurricane season (August through October), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC)–a division of the National Weather Service–is predicting that this year’s hurricane activity will be above-normal.
August 26, 2020
Concurrent high impact weather events can overwhelm emergency response systems and tend to have lasting impacts on communities.
August 26, 2020
Ellis Stanley
One of the major assertions made after the March earthquake and tsunami disasters in Japan was that the incident proves we’ve reached the planning limit. While the sentiment is understandable, framing the event this way provides an inaccurate representation of the purpose of advance planning. We do…
August 26, 2020
Mark Hoskins
Since 2007 I've organized Rain Day events that educate attendees on government agency plans for keeping water clean throughout nature and communities. This year, we're bringing Rain Day to the Montgomery County Fair, August 10-18.
August 26, 2020
Mehmet Secilmis
Last week Skip Notte blogged about his work as an Advisory Board member of Virginia Tech’s Land Development Design Initiative—one of the many ways in which Dewberry supports education and knowledge-sharing within our profession. I recently had a similar opportunity to share advances in our…
August 26, 2020
Gary Neuwerth
With the current mood in Washington, there is a real danger of not having a long-term Transportation Trust Fund authorization in place until after the November 2012 Presidential election. Alternatively, if an authorization plan comes out of committee and is approved this year, we could see a…
August 26, 2020
Brian Bradner
At the beginning of March, I had the pleasure to speak with approximately 120 Virginia Tech students about the land development industry as part of the university’s Land Development Design Initiative (LDDI).
August 26, 2020
Mario Iannelli
There are few projects more exciting for a site/civil engineer with a background in geo-environmental engineering, and a fondness for planning, than transit-oriented developments (TODs)—location-efficient projects that cluster mixed-use developments around transit facilities.
August 26, 2020
The original master plan called for a significant amount of light industrial development on the 550-acre site, but in 2007, Lerner asked us to revisit the plan. They wanted to reconsider the suburban separation of uses and the auto-dominant land use plan and instead create a vibrant, mixed-use…
August 26, 2020
Lindsay Gardner
Our office in Leesburg recently became a Certified Green Business through a program called the “Green Business Challenge” sponsored by Loudoun County and the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce. The 2011 Challenge was a great way for our office to focus on steps that we can take, both individually…
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