Downtown Planning Reinvigorates Urban Cores
By Matt Ashby In the era of strip malls, big box retailers, and suburbia, countless communities across the country are struggling to keep their downtowns thriving. As stores and restaurants locate around many city and town perimeters, the communities’ urban cores are being neglected. However, thanks to the efforts of a nationwide Main Street Movement,… Read More »
Tags: Downtown, Downtown Planning, main street amaerica, Planning Services, Strategic Planning, Urban Core, Urban Planning, Urban Revitalization
Building Bridges without Tangling Traffic
By Dave Pantzlaff, PE Quite often in our world of designing bridges for clients, we come across situations where we cannot simply close the road, take out or rehabilitate the existing bridge, and provide a detour for the public while the bridge is under construction. Maybe the bridge is on a dead-end road, providing the… Read More »
Tags: ABC, Accelerated Bridge Construction, Bridge Design, Chippewa County, Construction Staging, Crawford County, Detour, Kewaunee County, Madison, Menasha, New Alignment, Temporary Bypass, Traffic, Wisconsin
3D Graphics and 3D Printing Effectively Communicate Project Alternatives
By Chris Silewski, PLA Bringing a client’s vision to life is part of an engineer or architect’s job, but until construction begins, a 2D set of plan sheets may not be enough to help the owner visualize what the completed project could look like. How do consultants bridge this gap? Depending on the project, a… Read More »
Tags: 3D Printing, BIM, Building Information Modeling, Design, Graphic, Landscape Architecture, Rendering, Visualizations