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Ash Awarded Florida Utilities Coordinating Committee’s Highest Honor

Jan Ash, PE, manager of Ayres Associates’ Southeast Operations Municipal and Utilities group, has received the 2017 Malcolm Yancey Award from the Florida Utilities Coordinating Committee (FUCC) – the organization’s most prestigious honor. The award, which was presented Aug. 3 at the 2017 FUCC Summer Meeting, recognizes Ash for “outstanding leadership during the previous years… Read More »

Team of Consultants Helps Keep Bridges Safe From Scour

Ayres Associates and GCI INC, in partnership with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc., and STV Incorporated meticulously analyzed more than 1,500 Florida bridges susceptible to scour – the engineering term for the erosion of soil surrounding a bridge foundation – to help the Florida Department of Transportation decide which bridges are candidates for repair, replacement, or… Read More »

Five Dam Engineering Terms That Hold Water

Most of us are familiar with dams and their basic function, but what about everything else that falls under the water resources umbrella? We can’t cover them all here, but let’s look at some not so weir-d words engineers use to describe some pretty practical structures. What’s a Weir? A weir is generally part of… Read More »