Tag: civil engineering

Celebrating Engineers Week and Making a Positive Difference Everywhere You Look

By Thomas Pulse, PE If you enjoy clean water, safe bridges and roads, sturdy buildings, and managed stormwater – thank a civil engineer. Engineers come in many flavors – from aerospace and agricultural to biomedical, mechanical, and many more – but here at Ayres Associates we are primarily civil engineers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics… Read More »

Rare Fire Safety Center is Hot Commodity

The popularity of Chippewa Valley Technical College’s new Fire Safety Center in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is heating up. The building recently was the subject of a lengthy television news story by Eau Claire’s WEAU-TV. Ayres Associates architects (who recently joined the firm through the acquisition of Frisbie Architects) and site civil engineers provided design services… Read More »

What’s It Really Like Inside a Sewer?

Would you believe some engineers not only tolerate crawling inside sanitary sewer manholes – but actually enjoy it? Several members of our municipal engineering group in Ayres’ Fort Collins, Colorado, office climb into manholes to help their clients learn whether their sewer pipes are sized right, if they are leaking, and if they need to… Read More »