Author: wendy

Lots of Water over the Dam: Bakken Wraps up 41-Year Career

The year was 1973, and the U.S. unemployment rate was 4.9% and growing. Newly minted civil engineers like Jim Bakken were working wherever they could; for Jim, a fall 1972 graduate, that meant continuing the job he had his junior and senior years at the University of Minnesota – working as a janitor at 3M… Read More »

Sleigh Bells Ring, Are You Tracking?

For the past 50 years, kids have been able to keep tabs on Santa during his delivery route thanks to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) team. While this is undoubtedly excellent and very useful information, we wondered how exactly Santa knows where to stop once he’s loaded up that sleigh and checked his… Read More »

Colorado Clients Benefit from Award-Winning Projects

Ayres engineers in Colorado — and their clients — are happy to see some recent projects recently get statewide recognition. In the first award-winning project, Ayres helped the City of Loveland, Colorado, save its water supply immediately following the September 2013 catastrophic flood. The flood damaged two of three water lines feeding the City and… Read More »