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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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We Thank Our Lucky Stars: Five Reasons CivilGEO is Grateful
The year 2016 is wrapping up. Now is the time to take stock of the dips and peaks of the last 12 months. CivilGEO is still thriving; the number of satisfied customers keeps growing; we are still cranking out useful software. And I am counting my lucky stars to be at the...
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CivilGEO at the 27th Latin American Congress of Hydraulics
Two of our Spanish speaking superstar engineers, Harold Evers and Jordi Oliveras, were exhibiting GeoHECRAS at the XXVII Latin American Congress of Hydraulics at the Swissotel Lima, Peru. They were busy demonstrating the advanced capabilities and new features of GeoHECRAS. Lima is a desert city, the world’s second largest desert city in...
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Not Pie in the Sky Software
If you’ve been following this blog, you will notice a standard theme running through much of what I write: I like high performing software, but I like simplicity as well. I like software that does the work of several applications with an easy-to-use interface that is intuitive and a snap to learn....
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CivilGEO’s Software “Development on Demand”
What would you think of a software company that is so keen on making a great product that it will take client requests for new software capabilities and will implement them, sometimes within days of the request? That would be a bit unusual wouldn’t it? And yet, CivilGEO does exactly that; we...
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The Many “Hats” I Wear
Photo By © Jorge Royan / http://www.royan.com.ar, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Here’s something you may not know about me. Back in 2010 with the founding of CivilGEO, I had my hand in managing just about every aspect of the company. Here’s another thing you may not know: Nearly seven years later, in the wake...
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We Don’t Do It That Way Anymore
Before refrigeration, an industry grew up around the task of delivering blocks of ice harvested from local ponds or lakes to those who could afford it. People that couldn’t afford the ice would keep food in underground cellars or windowless back rooms that faced north. My dad loved to trot out his...
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Bridge Construction on the Fly?
Back in early July I posted a short commentary on the state of highways and bridges in the U.S. The American Society of Civil Engineer’s (ASCE) comprehensive 2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure offers an in-depth analysis as well. But wouldn’t you know? There may be hope. The classic entrepreneurial American spirit has hatched an idea...
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The Complexity of ‘Simple’
You can see signs of it wherever you look. When was the “small house movement” ever so big? When was the last time you saw so many books on the virtues of living a simple life? Why is practicing “mindfulness” so prevalent? The truth is that life is full of clutter, physical...
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Fish Ladders vs. Flying Fish, Which Works Better?
The sight of a Chinook Salmon being shot out of a duct on a river in the Pacific Northwest would probably startle famous early 20th century conservationist Aldo Leopold. But then, the massive number of dams on U.S. waterways in the 21st century would probably shock him as well. This modern age has brought many...
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The Unhappy State of Bridges and Highways in the U.S.
Photo By Achim Hering – Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link An interesting article ran in ASCE’s (American Society of Civil Engineers) Journal of Leadership and Management in Engineering in 2008. Robert W. Clark, P.E., authored a piece about two well used bridges in Stuyvesant, New York. One of the bridges had passed safety inspections by...
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