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We’ve Found Kentucky’s Bat Man
We’ve Found Kentucky’s Bat Man “No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.” ― David Attenborough Jeff Herod, Fish & Wildlife Biologist, lives by this quote by his hero and world-renowned naturalist...
12 Days to Christmas (Engineer’s Edition)
12 Days to Christmas (Engineer's Edition) In celebration of the holiday spirit, we thought we’d do a “12 days of Christmas” riff, but introduce you to the principles our firm lives by. We asked our team for the 12 words that best described our culture. Day 12,...
Fall: A Time for Sweater Weather, Football, & Drone Surveying
Fall: A Time for Sweater Weather, Football, & Drone Surveying As temperatures drop, we start to enjoy that special season we call Fall. Sure, it’s time for sweater weather, football season kicks into gear, and suddenly everything is flavored with pumpkin spice....
Paving the Way for Infrastructure Maintenance: How We Use PAVER Software
Paving the Way for Infrastructure Maintenance: How We Use PAVER Software As much as we’d love to make the pun, you can’t exactly “hit the ground running” (there, we did it anyway) when it comes to pavement management. It’s a discipline all its own. You need to have...
Mine Subsidence: A Problem We Want to Help Solve
Mine Subsidence: A Problem We Want to Help Solve We live in coal country. While that industry has dried up substantially compared to what it once was, the lasting effects are here to stay. The truth is, just like the mining of any fossil fuel, you eventually have to...
A Fair Trade: Why We Do Conferences & Trade Shows
A Fair Trade: Why We Do Conferences & Trade Shows Even in the throes of a pandemic, we kept up our presence at pivotal trade shows and conferences this year. You might wonder what we get out of attending these events. We have a short and simple answer; it keeps us...
Historic Preservation: A Surprising Component to Engineering
Historic Preservation: A Surprising Component to Engineering A lot of engineering is about forward momentum. You’re both looking forward and moving forward. After all, as engineers, we design things out of thin air, which means much of our work doesn’t exist until we...
Going with the Flow: Storm Water Management in Engineering
Going with the Flow: Storm Water Management in Engineering Stormwater drainage is another one of those engineering concepts that, when it works well, is almost imperceptible to the layman. However, there are varying degrees of "works well" in our industry. Poor...
How We Craft a Mechanical & Electrical Plan at BFW/Marcum
How We Craft a Mechanical & Electrical Plan at BFW/Marcum If you think of a building as a living thing, then we’d say a Mechanical & Electrical system is its nervous system. Mechanical & Electrical plans are the convergence of multiple disciplines of...
The Engineer’s Guide to Pumpkin Carving
The Engineer’s Guide to Pumpkin Carving We wanted to let everyone know that, in regards to the anonymous engineer who has been sending us infrequent correspondence in the form of “guides”, we’ve decided to enlist the assistance of a retired FBI handwriting analyzer....
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