Neither Cold Nor Wind Chills Stop Our Inspectors
Today is a lovely, mild day around our Tampa, Florida, office, home to most of our bridge inspection group. It was 63 degrees with 7 mph winds at 11 a.m., heading for an afternoon high of 65 degrees. But our Wisconsin-based bridge inspectors confronted a very different reality this morning. They were hard at work… Read More »
Tags: Bridge Inspection, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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 »
Tags: Barron County, Disa Wahlstrand, Federal Highway Administration, Flood Control, Grand Forks, Jim Bakken, National Highway Institute, Water Resources, Wissota Dam
Sleigh Bells Ring, Are You Tracking?
For the past 50 years, kids have been able to keep tabs on Santa during his delivery route thanks to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) team. While this is undoubtedly excellent and very useful information, we wondered how exactly Santa knows where to stop once he’s loaded up that sleigh and checked his… Read More »
