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The Many Moving Parts of the Industrial and Office Park
Thorough engineering is all about creating and sustaining ecosystems at every level. To put it another way, a good design has harmony across every component. This is easily shown with the engineering of both industrial parks and office parks. While the two spaces host...
Great Engineering Starts from the Ground Up
Depending on where you live, you might have a basement. In some geographical areas, a basement is an afterthought. In others, it’s a huge financial investment that requires clever engineering and plenty of pre-planning. The fact is, the ground beneath our feet is not...
Geotechnical Engineering: More Than Just Dirt
It’s no secret that many of engineering’s most important components are often difficult to perceive once the project wraps. Geotechnical engineering is one of those components. It’s a discipline that every engineering firm needs, whether they subcontract the work or...
Perfecting Our Craft: Geotechnical Drilling
With geotechnical drilling, you’re not trying to collect anything, you’re trying to learn more about an ecosystem so that when construction begins, the builders are aware of exactly what’s beneath their feet.
When it Comes to Structural Engineering, We Rise to the Challenge
If you were to ask the general public to define the breadth of structural engineering, how do you think they'd answer? "Buildings, bridges, and other things that stand up." This may be a common answer, but it only scratches the surface of what structural engineering...
What Goes into Construction Administration? (More Than You’d Think)
Every engineering project can be compared to a jigsaw puzzle. You may have all the pieces, but if you don’t understand the larger picture, then you’ll struggle to understand the greater purpose of what you’re trying to accomplish. Knowing what the larger picture looks...
Unmanned & Unmatched: The Art of the Aerial Drone
Ten years ago, you'd be hard-pressed to get a positive reaction from a regular consumer if you were to mention drone technology. Back then, the concept was still mostly relegated to its military application—something you heard about on the news but have not seen with...
We Are Proudly HUBZone Certified, and This is Why It’s Helping Our Community
All small businesses should strive to be community leaders. As a locally owned, Paducah-headquartered engineering firm, we do everything we can to give back to our community, be it through our efforts to improve infrastructure and build meaningful projects for the...
Function & Cost: The Path to Value Engineering
If you’re within the AEC industry, then you’ve more than likely heard the term “value engineering.” While the term is thrown around a lot (and, unfortunately, lost some of its impact), it’s still a sound methodology for creating avenues for cost-effective success....
A Day in the Life as an Engineer, Part 3
Like any trilogy, the final entry can be a masterstroke of genius (Goldfinger, Die Hard with a Vengeance, or The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) or a catastrophic failure (The Godfather Part III, Superman 3, The Matrix: Revolutions). However, our engineers...
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