Category: Water Resources

Take a Close Look: Can You Identify These Photos?

Ayres Associated provided design and construction plans for a new park on 19.7 acres on the north shore of the Nassau River in Nassau County, Florida. This project included designing a fishing pier, boat ramp with floating dock and accessible gangway, nature trails, covered picnic areas, playground, and restroom/vendor facilities. Take a look at the… Read More »

From Paper Bridges to Concrete Canoes, Scouts Wowed by Ayres Engineers

A group of Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts made paper bridges and learned about concrete canoes among other things when they sat down with members of the Young Professionals group at our Eau Claire, Wisconsin, headquarters a couple of weeks ahead of Engineers Week. Chris Marcum, a structural designer, told attendees from Cub Scout Pack 127… Read More »

Lots of Water over the Dam: Bakken Wraps up 41-Year Career

The year was 1973, and the U.S. unemployment rate was 4.9% and growing. Newly minted civil engineers like Jim Bakken were working wherever they could; for Jim, a fall 1972 graduate, that meant continuing the job he had his junior and senior years at the University of Minnesota – working as a janitor at 3M… Read More »