Visual Communication: Enhancing the Message and Inspiring Collaboration
By Craig Stoffel, PLA It’s been said that drawing is a designer’s first language, communicating ideas in 2D that will eventually be constructed in the real world. The graphics vary in detail, complexity, and refinement, and for good reason. Similar to for-construction drawings, which have established milestone deliverables of schematic design, design development, and construction… Read More »
Tags: Conceptual Design, Design, Designer, Drawings, Graphics, Rendering, Sketch, Visual Communication
One-Way or the Other? Two-Way Traffic Conversion Requires Study
By Alexander Cowan, PE, PTOE A drive through the downtown area of many American cities includes time spent on one-way streets. Cities have used short segments of one-way traffic for hundreds of years to try to improve traffic flow and move higher volumes of traffic along downtown arterials. However, in recent years many communities have… Read More »
Tags: Downtown, One-Way, One-Way Streets, Parking, Restoration, Revitalization, Traffic, Two-Way, Two-Way Streets
WDNR Assured Wetland Delineation Saves Time, Money
By Rob Wayne Wetland delineation may not be most people’s favorite topic to research. But if you are involved in any way in developing projects that affect the sites where they are proposed, wetland delineations can have unexpected impacts when they are required for your project. For the unfamiliar, wetlands – a k a bogs,… Read More »
Tags: Assured Wetland Delineator Program, Permitting, WDNR, Wetland, Wetland Delineation, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources