State and local authorities—including counties and cities—often grapple with significant challenges in their infrastructure projects. Public works departments are tasked with designing, maintaining, and improving essential infrastructure, such as roads and drainage systems. These tasks can be daunting due to...
When precipitation falls on land, in the short term, there are two places it can go: runoff to streams or infiltration into the ground. In the long term, evaporation also matters, but during a precipitation event, it isn’t important. Runoff...
Cities and towns often rely on local consultants to provide them with water, wastewater, and stormwater modeling. By bringing modeling efforts in house, municipalities can benefit from: Saving Money Often, even the smallest projects can come with a hefty price...
Rock at depth is subjected to stresses resulting from the weight of the overlying strata and from locked-in stresses of tectonic origin. When an opening is excavated in this rock, the stress field is locally disrupted and a new set...
Seminal papers are groundbreaking at the time of publication and remain influential many years later. I recently received word from the ASCE that my paper, “Battle of the Network Models: Epilogue,” published in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and...
OpenRoads Designer is a comprehensive civil engineering design software by Bentley Systems that offers a robust set of features for the planning, design, construction, and operation of infrastructure projects. It combines traditional CAD capabilities with modern building information modeling (BIM)...
Finding innovative solutions to complex problems sits at the heart of every infrastructure engineering firm. It’s a competency that defines success. For engineering principals and owners, maintaining an edge can mean the difference between winning and losing a bid or...
Back in the dark ages (e.g., the 1980s) before everyone had video capabilities on their cell phones, creating a training video was a big production. Video cameras (and their batteries) weighed about 30 pounds and editing tools we crude. I...