Author: ayres

Park improvements that won’t bust your community’s budget

Watching your pennies but want to make easy-to-implement improvements to your park facilities? Where there’s a will, there’s a way. With a little creativity, even financially challenged communities can make impactful revamps. Low-cost solutions abound if you just look for them. Here are 10 things you can fit into your budget yet this year: 10.… Read More »

Subsurface Utility Engineering Leads to Increased Safety, Cost Savings

The built world is continually evolving. You don’t have to look far to see road improvements, new houses and buildings, increased public transit, revitalization efforts, and more. New infrastructure means a higher demand for utilities, from water to telecommunications. Yet these additional utilities place increased stress on America’s rights-of-way, where most of these lines are… Read More »

Tale of Two Centuries: How to Save a Historic Bridge

It was three years after the Model T became the first mass-produced automobile when a salesman from the Iowa Bridge Company met with the City of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, to extol the virtues of a new type of bridge from the Marsh Engineering Company. The attractive rainbow-arched bridge with glass globe lanterns at each of… Read More »