What Is Bridge Scour? Why Should You Care?
The most common cause of bridge failures is from floods scouring bed material surrounding bridge foundations. What is scour? Simply put, scour is the engineering term for the erosion of soil surrounding a bridge foundation (piers and abutments). Bridge scour occurs when fast-moving water around a bridge removes sediment from… Read More »
Tags: Bridge Failure, Bridge Foundations, Bridge Inspection, Bridge Scour, Federal Highway Administration, Hydraulic Studies, National Highway Institute, National Highway System
BUILT LIKE A TANK: Towers, Pressure Keep Water Flowing
Ayres helped the Village of Suamico rehabilitate its water tower, which included cleaning the tower inside and out and repainting the outside of the tower. A video of the refreshed Suamico tower can be seen here. By Michael Stoffel, PE With a mere turn of the faucet, water arrives when and where we need it… Read More »
Tags: High-Density Polyethylene, Municipal, Municipal Water, Residential Water, Water Pressure, Water Tank, Water Tower
How to design telecom networks accurately, safely, efficiently: The geospatial approach
Lidar point cloud draped over mobile imagery with extracted points of attachments (POA). By Nik Anderson and Zachary Nienow Integrating geospatial technology into telecom design leverages data from remote sensing to map out existing conditions in the field. Collectively this includes imagery, lidar, and GIS data for the accurate location and measurement of existing infrastructure.… Read More »