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August 26, 2020
Matt Thomas and Randy Darden
On September 8, 2015, a groundbreaking ceremony initiated construction on the first phase of the ultimate project to widen 21 miles of Interstate 64 (I-64) in Virginia, notorious for its gridlock. The groundbreaking signals improvements not only in reducing traffic congestion, but also for the…
August 26, 2020
Dan Pleasant
There's no question that industries very different from the consulting, engineering, and architecture industry (e.g., banking, medical, accounting, legal, higher education, and insurance) are dealing with comparable challenges on an everyday basis. When it comes to businesses operating primarily in…
August 26, 2020
Larry Olinger, Douglas Frost, Laurel McGinley, Ronald Budzinski, Molly Wagner, Ronald Artigues Jr, Mark Montgomery and Johnise Molloy
Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina, a storm with 140mph winds and a presence of nearly 400 miles across, made landfall on the Gulf Coast. She left behind destruction of upwards to an estimated $100 billion, with 80 percent of New Orleans underwater, 234,000 homes damaged or destroyed in Mississippi…
August 26, 2020
Steven Eget
On August 3, 2015, President Barack Obama announced the Clean Power Plan, which establishes limits for carbon pollution from power plants. This rule differs from many air pollution regulations by putting a framework in place to allow for a shift to cleaner energy. The plan includes a set of…
August 26, 2020
Scott Funk
Tunnel boring machines have evolved tremendously since their mid-1840s inception (nearly two decades before the Civil War). They're now powerful enough to carve through Yucca Mountain and have the endurance to carve close to 100 miles of underground passages. These machines come in all shapes and…
August 26, 2020
Daniel Atilano
A little over a year ago, Brian Bradner explained how the evolving target demographic of American business-to-consumer strategy has affected physical retail environments. As he explained, people simply aren't shopping in stores as often as they used to.
August 26, 2020
Katie Werback
As a U.S. Army Captain on active duty, my one-year rotational Training with Industry (TWI) program with Dewberry has come to an end. As an officer, our duty positions last anywhere from six months to two years, and you really don't know when it will end until a few months prior. In this case, the…
August 26, 2020
Robert Delach and Sue Hoegberg
There are always many goodhearted U.S. citizens who are able to respond to overseas disasters by hopping on a plane to provide relief in the midst of post-disaster chaos. For most Americans, this just isn't a realistic possibility. While we all have skills that we could contribute, there are few…
August 26, 2020
Jim Draheim
The practice of architecture has changed dramatically over the last several years. We can no longer be content with functional and aesthetically pleasing buildings; our clients and our society demand more of us. Building design now needs to encompass a more holistic approach to handling…
August 26, 2020
Stella Wilson and Bryon Griffith
We can still picture oil flowing, unchecked, from the Deepwater Horizon well into the Gulf of Mexico. As days turned into months, the fact that the flow hadn't been stemmed became more and more unbelievable. When the well was finally capped after three months, every Gulf Coast community experienced…
August 26, 2020
I've been working in the engineering field for more than 20 years, but it's largely my more recent experience in the healthcare industry that has been the most challenging. I began focusing on healthcare facilities engineering eight years ago, but even though this focus constitutes only a small…
August 26, 2020
Shannon Brewer
Effective community resilience is a direct result of collaboration. The effectiveness of our floodplain management projects is determined by the total awareness, buy-in, and participation of not only the individual agency we work for, but as many lateral and sub-agencies as possible. Identifying…
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