Tag: Chicago

Engineers Keep Drinking Water Safe

The concept of taking preventive measures to protect ourselves or our surroundings from catastrophes isn’t new – after all, Benjamin Franklin said “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” back in the 1700s. It is unfortunate that it often takes a catastrophe to demonstrate the need for prevention. Franklin’s adage is registering… Read More »

Chicago Area Geospatial Mapping is a Study in Coordination

To say the airspace over Chicago is busy and complex would be an understatement. That fact was realized nationwide in late September after a fire in an air traffic control center forced thousands of flight cancellations and threw commercial air travel into disarray for more than two weeks. Ayres Associates’ geospatial mapping specialists are fully… Read More »