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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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

We’re All in: Parks & Recreation the BFW/Marcum Way Public parks, no matter how big or small, are pivotal to communities, especially underserved ones. Everybody needs a safe outdoor space, whether it’s to play or relax. They also act as the glue that binds the...