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3.08.2018

Build it Back: Rebuilding Communities for Resilient Families

Contributed by Steven Eget

People are at the heart of the work that we do. We design sustainable and energy efficient buildings so people are comfortable ...

3.01.2018

Protecting our Coastal Communities

Contributed by Seth Lawler

According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as of the 2010 census 39 percent of the nation's population lived ...

2.22.2018

Hear from an Engineer: Where Did You Start, and Where Are You Now?

Contributed by Jose Pereira, Patrick Covil, Sharon Freiland, Deji Ajose-Adeogun & Grant Smith

In honor of Engineers Week, we asked several professionals around the country to share their answers to the question: "What area of ...

2.15.2018

Five Years In: Leadership in New Jersey Contaminated Site Remediation

Contributed by Charles Stebbins

By the early 2000s, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and New Jersey legislature realized that the state's 20,000+ contaminated ...

2.08.2018

We’re Going to the Chapel and We’re Going to….Upgrade the Utility and MEP Systems

Contributed by Stephen Webb

Durham is filled with public parks, museums, world-class restaurants, and universities, and its population continues to grow with the addition of small ...

2.01.2018

Big Data Tools Provide a Big Boost to Planning

Contributed by Mat Mampara

Web-Based Analytics Lead to Smarter Capital Planning and Risk Management As an engineer, one of the most exciting developments I've seen in ...

1.25.2018

Local Funding for Community Projects: How our Grant Writing Experience Plays a Role

Contributed by Justin Ford

We see it all the time: plenty of work, not enough funding. This is an unfortunate predicament for many of our clients, ...

1.18.2018

Mapping the Everglades: GIS Data Collection for the U.S. Geological Survey

Contributed by Erin Meadows

Three years out of my college degree, on my second major data collection project as a geospatial analyst with Dewberry, I found ...

1.11.2018

The Performance Based Building Coalition: Advocating for P3 Construction

Contributed by Jeffrey Purtell

I recently helped facilitate a roundtable discussion at the 2017 P3 Federal Conference, held in Washington, D.C., in late November. My co-presenters, ...

1.04.2018

Recognizing an Effective Leader

Contributed by Joe Skinner

I've been working in the engineering industry for more than four decades, and I've picked up on a few things in that ...

12.29.2017

Fresh Ideas: Three Ways Planners Can Innovate in a Time of Change

Contributed by Meg Bower

About 10 years ago a colleague in the planning field and I shared lunch and ended up discussing work. He used the ...

12.21.2017

The Increase in Floods is not by Chance

Contributed by Deji Ajose-Adeogun

If you've watched the news lately you've probably been hearing the words stormwater, flooding, 500-year flood, and storm surge quite a bit. ...

12.14.2017

Dewberry’s Approach to Sustainability Helped Washington, D.C., Become the First LEED Platinum City

Contributed by Kevin McNiff and Brian Tanner

This summer, Washington, D.C., earned the distinction of becoming the world's first LEED Platinum City ...

12.07.2017

Strategies for Success: Preparing for the Architecture Registration Exam

Contributed by Brooke Martin

One of the most challenging hurdles in an architect’s career is the Architecture Registration Exam® (ARE®), an important step ...

11.30.2017

Why MS4s Should Use Natural Stream Channel Restoration to Reduce Stormwater Pollution

Contributed by Tom Graupensperger

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) protects water quality by regulating municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) to reduce the pollutants that stormwater ...

11.22.2017

Danville's Iconic Research Center Transformed

Contributed by Dodie Hudson and Larry Hasson

After opening its doors for the first time in the late 1800s, the Dan River Research Building became one of the largest ...

11.15.2017

GIS Day 2017: Why I Chose a Career in GIS and How the Industry Has Changed

Contributed by Sue Hoegberg, Phil Thiel, Kate O’Brien, Ken Logsdon Jr., Erin Meadows, Dave Maune, and Chris Maderia

How I Learned to Love GIS "I fell into GIS in 1990 after working for a number of years doing manual cartography. ...

11.09.2017

Becoming a Licensed Structural Engineer and What the Future May Hold

Contributed by Nicholas Harden

Whether you’re in your first year of engineering classes, two years into your career, or have been a professional engineer for more ...

11.01.2017

NOAA's Hydrographic Services Review Panel Issue Papers (Part 2)

Contributed by Dave Maune

In my last blog I discussed my involvement on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Hydrographic Services Review Panel. As a ...

10.26.2017

NOAA's Hydrographic Services Review Panel Issue Papers (Part 1)

Contributed by Dave Maune

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP) is a Federal Advisory Committee to the NOAA Administrator. The ...