Category: Industry News

6 Reasons to Hire a Registered Professional

Why hire a registered professional? What difference does it make that your engineer, architect, geologist, landscape architect, surveyor, mapper, or soil scientist has a professional license? It makes all the difference if you want your project to be safe, long-lasting, and built to code. Arizona legislators introduced a bill earlier this year seeking to abolish… Read More »

RESISTOGRAPH Checks Soundness of Timber Structures

Wood was a primary building material used in many U.S. bridges a century ago. Timber bridges were tried-and-true, given the nature of what crossed them: people, animals, and eventually relatively light vehicles. Over time steel and concrete have become the primary materials in most bridges to handle heavier truck loads. Still, timber is used in… Read More »

Keeping It Safe for Hunters, Workers, and Thanksgiving Holiday Travelers

The entire nation is gearing up for Thanksgiving next week, but in our Wisconsin offices we have another holiday to celebrate: deer hunting (known in some corners as Holy Week). The nine-day gun hunting season opens November 21 and runs through November 29. Thousands of blaze orange-clad hunters will take to the fields and forests… Read More »