Invent Civil

I just checked my email inbox, and there’s a note from the ASCE about some sort of press release.  Unsure of how they decided to send this information to me, and at the same time somewhat flattered, I’ll post it out on the ‘net.  Only because that’s what they seem to want.  From the inbox:
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If you haven’t heard about the new (ish) stormwater extensions for Civil3d, I’d recommend heading over to this page to download them and take a look.  While I have not had a chance to run through the extensions’ functionality personally, a recent post over at civil3d.com covers some of the basics of rainfall data and [...]

If you haven’t heard of Akvo yet, you should head over to their site to take a look.  I was originally quite impressed with the idea, but I didn’t have a chance to blog about it yet.
Akvo is a site that attempts to use the internet as a tool to help provide clean water and [...]

City Journal recently posted an article on the true reasons for the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina. The author argues that the problems in New Orleans occurred due to poorly designed and maintained infrastructure. It’s an interesting point, and something that should be a warning to anyone who works in the field of stormwater [...]

So one of my first ever engineering tasks at my current consulting firm was to create a quantity takeoff for various items on a project.  The part where I was having some difficulty was where a quantity in Tonnes was required for asphalt, Granular ‘A’ and Granular ‘B’.  I needed to know the density of [...]