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November 7, 2019
Rishi Immanni, Ken Logsdon and Patrick Wade
As organizations look to optimize resources and prepare for the future, many seek ready access to data regarding capital assets. Engineering advisors play a key role in helping clients identify, document, and access this information to support maintenance and capital improvement projects.
July 1, 2019
Rahul Parab is quoted in this article that looks at how the Red Hook Integrated Flood Protection System project in Brooklyn, New York, is helping mitigate the effects of storm surge. Courtesy American Council of Engineering Companies and Engineering Inc.
June 11, 2019
Pavel Likhonin and Dave Huey are quoted in this article that explores the benefits of bringing information technology and building design teams together when designing healthcare facilities.
March 21, 2019
Seth Lawler
In 2007, a group of friends in Silicon Valley launched a start-up for hosting computer code on a website that could be shared openly, with minimally restrictive use policies. The site, GitHub, functions like a social network for coders, where pictures of last night’s dinner are replaced with lines…
January 1, 2019
Dr. David Maune discusses what he learned from his years of active duty in the U.S. Army, his motivation behind editing “Digital Elevation Model Technologies and Applications: The DEM Users Manual,” as well as progress made in recent digital elevation models. The article also includes chapter-by-chapter descriptions of “The DEM Users Manual.” Courtesy Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
November 21, 2018
In recent years, just outside of Bossier, Louisiana, the Red Chute Bayou Levee has been repeatedly threatened by major floods. Two of these significant flood threats required close to five miles of sandbagging to prevent the levees being overtopped. These emergency efforts are incredibly expensive…
July 26, 2018
Adam Westfall
The use of drones and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expanding at an astounding rate, and recent advances in technology have made it more viable in the A/E/C industry than ever before. Still, in this world of autonomous technology, licensed drone pilots remain an essential component of the…
February 1, 2018
Mat Mampara
As an engineer, one of the most exciting developments I've seen in the past few years involves the harnessing of "big data," or large and complex datasets, for asset management, capital planning, risk assessment, and program evaluation. With modern computing power, algorithms that can efficiently…
March 3, 2016
Stephen Franks
I recently attended a training about pairing an emerging technology, drone imagery, with Esri’s ArcGIS mapping platform. What’s exciting about this combination is that mapping information of live project sites can now be easily augmented by drone imagery. As a civil engineer, I use other…
January 8, 2015
Siva Selvanathan
In recent blogs, my colleagues discussed some exciting new climate change research, including a method to more accurately measure sea level rise impacts on coastal flood elevations and a screening tool that helps airports assess specific climate change risks. These articles highlight our focus on…
December 11, 2014
In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced a competitive grant program for projects aimed at increasing the resilience of public transportation systems against future disasters. FTA set aside nearly $3.6 billion for this competitive resilience grant…
October 23, 2014
Dmitry Smirnov and Stuart Geiger
Around this time last year, we were just recuperating from the 2013 Colorado floods. The five-day natural disaster forced more than 11,000 evacuations and damaged more than 19,000 homes. In support of the Colorado Flood Threat Bulletin (FTB), a daily forecasting tool, we used Twitter to broadcast…
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