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June 9, 2022
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2021 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, 42% of the more than 617,000 bridges across the U.S. are at least 50 years old and 7.5% are considered structurally deficient. An additional complicating factor is that many of these older…
June 2, 2022
The increasing number of technological advancements entering the market, including high-resolution topographic information and geolocation data, are helping to modernize the emergency management industry and changing the game in terms of how we support decision-makers and communities impacted by…
May 26, 2022
Michael Arotis
In 1963, Robert Moses built the Arthur V. Sheridan Expressway to connect the Bruckner Expressway (I-278) with the New England Thruway (I-95) in the New York City borough of the Bronx. Although the at-grade interstate roadway served its purpose by connecting major roadways in the Bronx, it also…
May 12, 2022
Beth Keppler
It’s a common misconception that an interior designer and an interior decorator are the same thing. Anyone can call themselves an interior decorator if they have a knack for style and décor, but an interior designer, in contrast, meets these three crucial criteria:
May 5, 2022
Patrick Ronan and Emilio Barcelona
City Island is a little island off the coast of the Bronx in New York City. The shorefront area has a rich nautical history and is a recreational community with beaches, boating, fishing, and more than 30 restaurants. It’s a small island restricted by the fact that there’s only one land…
April 28, 2022
Robert Beltran, Amy Tracy, Dave Maxwell and Todd Shafer
One Water is an integrated water management approach that values every drop of water, regardless of its source. Rather than judge water by its history, engineers and scientists assess the quality of water and then clean the water to the meet the end use. Because One Water looks at the full water…
April 21, 2022
Mathew Mampara, Ashley Gordon and Katie Gronsky
On August 30, 2021, as Hurricane Ida moved along the East Coast, New York City experienced 3.15 inches of rain in a single hour, shattering the previous record that had been broken just 10 days earlier with Tropical Storm Henri. This rainfall event occurred during what was the second rainiest…
April 14, 2022
Joe Estrada, Doug Sullivan and Peter Garvey
In July 2020, Peter Garvey wrote our first blog in this series on the U.S. offshore wind (OSW) industry, which at the time was relatively speculative in terms of whether or not the market would be shovel-ready by 2021. With the installation of Dominion’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot…
April 7, 2022
Ami Gulden and Steve Finch
Not only are bats found in caves and resting under the loose bark of trees, but they also use the nooks and crannies, joints, and gaps found in many of our roadway bridges over roads and streams. Numerous studies have shown that large numbers of bats occupy bridges for daytime shelter and summer…
March 31, 2022
Our history of providing land surveying services to our clients dates back to our founding. Historically, surveying has a been a male-dominated field. It wasn’t until the mid-1800s when the first female surveyor, Alice Fletcher, broke the proverbial glass ceiling of the profession. Alice paved the…
March 24, 2022
Alaurah Moss Jordan and Don Hammack
The term resilience is often associated with building infrastructure, storm protection, and community preparedness. However, it’s also applicable to transportation assets of various kinds, including highways, bridges, and interchanges; aviation facilities; freight rail, passenger rail, and mass…
March 17, 2022
Our team is expanding our geospatial damage assessment capabilities with a machine learning (ML) model to automatically detect a variety of objects in RGB imagery. Throughout our four-decade partnership with FEMA performing geospatial damage assessments, we’ve learned that by identifying downed…
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