Bridging Time: From Caesar’s First Bridge to Clark Dietz
Blog Image Source: Illustration of Caesar’s Rhine Bridge from “History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians” (1883) […]
5 Reasons Why LED Lighting is Here to Stay
The invention of light emitting diode (LED) lighting was, like many groundbreaking innovations, done by accident. In 1962, General Electric Scientist Nick Holonyak, Jr. was experimenting to create a visible semiconductor [...]
Clark Dietz enters the 2021 Engineering Drone Video of the Year Contest
We’re thrilled to have entered two videos in the Engineering Drone Video Contest of the Year 2021, conducted by Civil + Structural Engineer Magazine. It gives us a chance to [...]
Pavement Testing That’ll Make a Difference with Your Cost Savings
Why repair an entire roadway when you can repair only what is broken? For the Curtis Road Improvements project in Champaign County, we kept costs down by doing just that. [...]
A Look Back at WEFTEC 2020: An Interview with Engineer Archana Raju
Streamlined grant applications, detecting COVID-19 from wastewater, UV-C LED disinfection, and the wastewater treatment “breakthrough technology of the decade” […]
Why Now is a Great Time for Public Sector Projects
2020 has been rough. With a pandemic, a looming deeply divisive presidential election, civil unrest, record unemployment, and, depending on where you live, even some natural disasters like floods and [...]
Biosolids Modeling in Excel: Tracking Your Biosolids Program
Wastewater treatment facilities across the country generate sludge as part of the treatment process. To dispose of the sludge, the sludge must be treated and either hauled to a landfill [...]
Designing Roadways in 3D with Ron Nordmeyer, PE
Before the release of MicroStation OpenRoads technology, roadways were designed in three two-dimensional (2D) views. The first view looked down at the roadway from space on a flat Earth. This [...]
Benefits of Using Photogrammetry with Drones
Drones are a great benefit to the civil engineering industry. When used throughout construction and post-construction, documented videos or photos can show the project progression for public information purposes or [...]
Guidelines to Energy Efficiency in Existing Municipal Buildings
While energy savings are best realized when implemented across a broad portfolio of buildings; funding and personnel resources are not always available. The following guidelines can be applied to existing [...]
