Through or Around? Lots of Options for Accommodating Traffic During Construction
Concrete paving proceeds along East Washington Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin. Four lanes of traffic were maintained on this six-lane arterial during construction. By Kim Ballweg, PE When it’s time for a community to reconstruct a busy street, visions of orange barrels cause foreheads to wrinkle reflexively. It can be hard to get from Point A… Read More »
Tags: Detour Routes, Road Closure, Road Construction, Temporary Signage, Traffic Detours, Traffic Staging, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Work Zone
Struggling with Data Storage? Cloud Hosting May be Your Solution
By Zachary Nienow, GISP Think for a moment about the typical digital photos you take on your personal camera or cell phone. Each selfie, vacation picture, or candid shot of your kids is likely 5 to 10 megabytes in size. Now imagine a typical countywide high-resolution orthoimagery project, which can be up to 1 terabyte.… Read More »
Tags: Cloud Storage, Cloud-based hosting, Geospatial, LiDAR, LiDar Datasets, Orthoimagery
Top 5 Reasons to Celebrate Civil Engineering
By Disa Wahlstrand, PE, LEED AP It’s National Engineers Week, which makes this a great time to celebrate all engineers. Engineers come in many specializations, from aerospace to software and everything in between. But the engineer with the greatest impact on the public good could well be the civil engineer – designer of water pipes… Read More »
Tags: Civil Engineer, civil engineering, Engineer, Flooding, Infrastructure, Landscaping, NSBE, Roadway Design, Utilities, Wastewater, Water Resources