November 2018

Northwest Area Trunk Line Improvements Waukee, Iowa A-2000 Expands and Enhances Sanitary Sewer When council members for the City of Waukee approved Phase IV of a capital improvement project allowing for the expansion and enhancement of the Northwest Area Trunk Sewer Extension, A-2000™ PVCwas selected for its ability to withstand 40 ft of cover. Read More

Building Bridges Sunday River Resort Newry, Maine BridgeCor Serves as Road Overpass and Ski Underpass During the recent addition of luxury homes near Sunday River Resort, a BridgeCor®Structural Plate structure on precast EXPRESS®Foundations was installed to provide a roadway overpass and ski underpass. Read More

Elmhirst Parkway over Rock Creek Bethesda, Maryland CON/SPAN Replaces Deteriorating Structure After the original Elmhirst Parkway structure was deteriorating, weight restricted, and deemed insufficient, a CON/SPAN®B-Series®Bridge System with EXPRESS®Foundationswas installed as its replacement. Read More

Stormwatch Mile High Apartments Denver, Colorado Corrugated Metal Pipe and StormFilter Store and Treat Stormwater 英里高的公寓的雨水detention and treatment needs were met with the use of corrugated metal pipe (CMP) and a StormFilter vault placed downstream of the detention system. Read More

Pipe Solutions Blog Infrastructure Resiliency Seismic resiliency of buried pipes can be described as the ability to reduce the effects of seismic events on those pipes and the fluids in them. Critical piping applications, such as oil and gas transmission lines, enjoy most of the seismic buried piping design studies and thoughts of a rupture invoke visions of hellish fireballs and untold environmental damage. Read More

Stormwater Blog Remembering the Importance of Public Outreach and Participation The first two of the six minimum control measures of the NPDES Phase II requirements are public education/outreach and public participation/ involvement. These are areas all stormwater professionals should be engaged in if we truly want our goals to be actualized. Read More

ASCE Interchange The Value of PR to Your Company In this episode of the ASCE Interchange, Robert Deigh, principal of RDC Public Relations LLC and author of Spark: The Complete Public Relations Guide for Small Business, discusses the value of public relations to engineering firms and how to harness its power. Read More