Author: ayres

Staff Member Honored for Volunteerism; Ayres Donates to Literacy Group

Tom Paquin, right, works on English language exercises with his Literacy Green Bay student, Omar Valenzuela, at the Brown County Library’s Southwest Branch. The pair meet weekly throughout the school year. Tom Paquin, a marketing specialist at our Green Bay, Wisconsin, area office, recently was awarded the Owen Ayres Good Citizen Award, named after our… Read More »

Through or Around? Lots of Options for Accommodating Traffic During Construction

Concrete paving proceeds along East Washington Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin. Four lanes of traffic were maintained on this six-lane arterial during construction. By Kim Ballweg, PE When it’s time for a community to reconstruct a busy street, visions of orange barrels cause foreheads to wrinkle reflexively. It can be hard to get from Point A… Read More »

Struggling with Data Storage? Cloud Hosting May be Your Solution

By Zachary Nienow, GISP Think for a moment about the typical digital photos you take on your personal camera or cell phone. Each selfie, vacation picture, or candid shot of your kids is likely 5 to 10 megabytes in size. Now imagine a typical countywide high-resolution orthoimagery project, which can be up to 1 terabyte.… Read More »