Author: wendy

Splashpads Are For People, Not Pups

While your furry canine companion most likely would love nothing more than to frolic at the local water play area, it’s important to know that splashpads are no place for pets. Water play areas, also called aquatic playgrounds, splashpads, or spray parks, have increasingly become a popular, less costly alternative to community swimming pools. Splashpads… Read More »

Road Closed — But Engineers Are On The Scene

The culvert that carried Trout Brook under STH 13 at North York in Ashland County, Wisconsin, was washed out July 11 after torrential rains hit the area. By Jeff Abramson, PE “All the roads into Mellen (Wisconsin) were closed this morning from washouts and bridges gone.” That daunting line in an Associated Press report on… Read More »

Game On! Pokémon Go and Real-World Applications

As people scour the countryside trying to catch Pokémon, engineers and architects and scientists are working from top to bottom and side to side – calculating X Y coordinates and using sophisticated 3D analysis tools – to perform specialized and highly technical geographic work not unlike the GPS-driven augmented reality game. Pokémon Go, the wildly… Read More »