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March 26, 2015
Trevor Cone
Water is the artery of life and everyday routines evaporate in its absence. The power of this statement becomes absolutely clear when communities are forced to suddenly live in a post-disaster environment.
March 12, 2015
Dominic Spadafore
In 2010, Dewberry adopted the 2030 Challenge, a voluntary program that encourages firms to design, construct, retrofit, or otherwise produce buildings that are carbon neutral by 2030. Along with hundreds of other signatories, it's our goal to make today's cutting edge designs tomorrow's standard of…
February 5, 2015
Heather Campbell
At the turn of the 21st century, nearly 50 percent of Virginia's population lived outside urban areas, typically within communities of fewer than 10,000 people. These rural communities lived on 95 percent of the state's land, meaning that a small number of people have been responsible for…
January 22, 2015
Steven Shapiro
As a transportation community, we're challenged to understand the dynamics of our infrastructure, the interactions of its components, and its effect on the environment.
January 15, 2015
Rick Davidson
Think for a moment about a courthouse, any courthouse. Likely, you envision large pillars that impose a sense of finality, huge structures topped with statues representing truth and justice – their strong gaze pushing you deep into mixed feelings of inferiority and awe. Once inside, the lack of…
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…
November 6, 2014
Jim Matarelli
The challenge of dealing with mental health issues is becoming an important design consideration in institutional facility planning, particularly when it comes to correctional and secure mental health models.
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…
September 25, 2014
Denelle Wrightson
If you're anything like me, walking into a library makes your gut do an excited little somersault. Hearing the pristine silence broken by the gentle rustle of pages, smelling a well-worn book, and feeling the creak of a new spine elicits a response unique to this environment.
August 14, 2014
"Made in China" is a label we're all used to. The phrase is so commonplace that many Americans actually question our country's ability to compete in a global manufacturing market - just two years after China replaced us as the largest manufacturing country.
July 31, 2014
Cody Pennetti
For the past five years, I've had the opportunity to work on an exciting infrastructure initiative that will help improve and sustain the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The project, the National Mall Underground (NMU), is a subterranean visitor center that also functions as a stormwater…
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