The 3D Elevation Data Program is a Game-Changer
For decades, engineers have relied on a patchwork of data consisting of field surveys, orthographic photos, and other sources to piece together baseline topographic data for infrastructure design…
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Experiments in Flood Risk Assessment
As cities grapple with flood preparedness, a strategy known as “stochastic storm transposition” (SST) is increasingly viewed as a tool useful for flood risk assessment. Today, the method…
Findings from the World Meteorological Organization’s newly released Global Climate Report (2025)
If only the most alarming trends we are witnessing lately—warming oceans, heat waves in the Arctic and record high temperatures elsewhere—could be credited to normal fluctuations. But the…
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The Day My Employee Went Rogue
I didn’t realize I had a problem on my hands until the wife of my absentee sales person called to ask one morning if we had seen her husband. There had been red flags leading up to this day that I had foolishly chosen to ignore. This sales agent hadn’t been able…
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What I’m Thankful for in 2018
Ideally, we should give thanks every day for the things that make our lives better. But life and responsibilities get in the way most of the time. When the month of November comes around, it forces us to consider the blessings we so often ignore during the rest of the year. Here…
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Mean What You Say
One summer day many years ago, a friend of our family told my then eight-year old self that he would build me a treehouse in the fall. Maybe this friend didn’t realize how much I trusted his words. Maybe this friend didn’t really think I was paying attention to what he said or…
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5 Proven Principles Can Improve Your Professional & Personal
My personal life is so intertwined with my business life that I value the lessons that apply to both. Here are five principles that I try to practice as much as possible: Simplify Your Business and Home Life I’ve trotted out this concept once before in an earlier blog but it is worth repeating.…
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The Weaving Machine of the Industrial Revolution
Most of us are familiar with the famous computer scientists/entrepreneurs of the 20th and 21st centuries. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page are just a few. These are the guys that first made personal computers and Internet-based technologies accessible to the masses. But who were the individuals who first imagined a…
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Time to Consider an Alternative Paradigm: Water 4.0
Photo By McPolu – Image taken by the user from a balloon and uploaded to Flickr. The user changed its license to a commons-compatible one under request., CC BY-SA 2.0, Link The ways of the Romans are still with us. Oddly enough, our present-day style of managing water has not strayed much…
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The Evolving Corporate Story
A company’s history, if you look hard enough, has all the elements of a good fairy tale. It is multi-layered, with multiple moving parts and multiple players; it is a constantly evolving and shifting entity. There is the workforce, the executives, those that have resigned or been hired, the product line, the…
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Robot Engineers?
You may lose your white-collar job to a robot sooner than you think. According to the IDC (International Data Corporation), a global provider of market intelligence and analysis, big changes in the U.S. workforce will happen quickly and at a scale you would never have expected. The IDC’s report, “IDC FutureScape: Worldwide…
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How to Keep Your Head Above Water
Building and growing a business is in my blood. I come from a long line of entrepreneurs that thrived on self-employment. From my great-grandfather on my mother’s side to my dad and several more in-between, we have always enjoyed building businesses from the ground up. But it hasn’t been easy and it would…
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Is It Time for 3D Modeling?
An overview of recent magazine covers would suggest that virtual reality technology is the latest marvel to hit the consumer market. Not too long ago, Best Buy’s main display table featured a virtual reality headset by Oculus Rift. No matter that the goggles were massive, awkward, heavy and extended your forehead by…
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