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December 13, 2012
To succeed in architecture, a design team has to be multi-dimensional in terms of its commitment and skills. We have to provide clients with more than creative architectural concepts—we need to meet requirements for budgets, schedules, functionality, sustainability, life-cycle parameters, and much…
November 29, 2012
It's often thought that the simple solution to support police department growth would be to build a big addition. The primary issue with this approach is that, unlike other building types, police departments don't grow symmetrically. Police stations are split into a number of distinct areas driven…
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…
October 11, 2012
Jana Green
During last week's New Jersey Association for Floodplain Management (NJAFM) conference, Crystal Tramunti (FEMA Region II) and I co-presented an interactive workshop on electronic Letters of Map Amendment (eLOMAs) that included demonstrations of how to write FEMA-approved legal descriptions and how…
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…
September 6, 2012
Shandi Treloar
A recent report issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirms that seven years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast, many nursing homes are still unprepared to protect residents during a natural disaster. Among the deficiencies cited, investigators…
September 6, 2012
Steven Eget
Sustainability is often portrayed as the intersection of environmental, economic, and societal factors in project development. However, sustainability doesn't have to be an unattainable nexus of three unrelated factors; it's best to incorporate all three. When considering economics and…
August 30, 2012
Brian Meade
One advantage of working for a large firm with deep expertise in markets such as education, libraries, and law enforcement is having the opportunity to design projects that are in other parts of the country. Even though I'm currently based in Illinois, I had lived and worked in Phoenix and was…
August 30, 2012
Tim Belcher and Dave Hieber
Reflections from the 2013 Transportation Project Management Institute.
August 23, 2012
Deborah Mills
Every year, we try to think of innovative ideas to generate interest at Dewberry’s exhibit at the Association of State Floodplain Managers' annual conference. This year, the inspiration for one of our biggest conversational pieces came from my godsons’ playroom—using Legos to build a model of a…
August 16, 2012
James Floystrop
Recently, my team and I were tasked with performing a master plan and hydraulic model for a water utility whose service area covered 25 square miles and supported a population of 70,000. Our analysis of a 15-year planning horizon resulted in more than $50-million in recommended system improvements.
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