Author: ayres

Raleigh-based Surveyor Puts Ayres on the Map in North Carolina

Joey Fuller, PLS, recently joined Ayres’ survey staff with experience in boundary, topographic, and control surveying and construction staking. As a professional land surveyor licensed and based in North Carolina, Fuller’s hiring advances Ayres’ commitment to providing survey and aerial mapping services to the state. He has provided professional survey and CADD services for a… Read More »

How Much Weight is Too Much for a Bridge? Engineers’ Ratings Have the Answer

In mid-May of 2018 a driver crossing a bridge in the Town of Lafayette in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, noticed something was wrong with the bridge. Town officials quickly saw the problem – the bridge had a major crack in the deck, and a pier pile holding up the bridge had buckled, causing the bridge to… Read More »

How Do You Know What Roads are Good Candidates for Mill and Overlay?

By Mark Petersen, PE Structural layer coefficient. Excavation below subgrade. K values. Cold in-place recycling. If those terms aren’t familiar to you, not to worry. Transportation engineers are well-versed in the vocabulary of road repairs, and you can rest assured that what’s happening on the other side of those orange barrels is for the benefit… Read More »