Transportation Designers Avoid Cemeteries – and Not Just on Halloween
By Troy Robillard, PE Our transportation engineers avoid cemeteries at all costs – not because they’re spooky (especially on Halloween) but because having a road run into a burial site causes all sorts of headaches for clients, contractors, and the design team. A current intersection reconstruction project on CTH CE and Railroad Street in the… Read More »
Tags: American Planning Association, Archaeological Field Survey Report, Area of Potential Effects, Burial Sites, Cemetery, Project Plan, Right-of-Way Plats, Transportation Engineering
Strange But True: Proven Methods Keep Structures, Public Safe
Bridge inspectors perform chain drags to check the soundness of the deck’s concrete. By Rick Maslyn, CBI A casual observer of one of our structural inspections might think our inspectors are using strange methods or are trying their best to flush out any zombies that may be in the area. How else would you explain… Read More »
Tags: Bridge, Chain Drag, Fracture Critical Bridge, Micrometer, RESISTOGRAPH, Soundness, Structural Inspection, Structural Inspectors, Structures, Timber Structure
Park improvements that won’t bust your community’s budget
Watching your pennies but want to make easy-to-implement improvements to your park facilities? Where there’s a will, there’s a way. With a little creativity, even financially challenged communities can make impactful revamps. Low-cost solutions abound if you just look for them. Here are 10 things you can fit into your budget yet this year: 10.… Read More »
Tags: ADA Compliance, Grant Opportunities, Landscape Architecture, Park, Park Endowment, Park Improvements, Park Lighting, Park Signage, Parks