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Transportation & The Environment: Landscape Architecture and Outdoor Advertising
Transportation & The Environment: Landscape Architecture and Outdoor Advertising The value of landscape architecture isn’t always obvious, especially in a transportation engineering project. After all, barring a scenic byway here and there, what is there to see...
Transportation & the Environment: Ecology
Transportation & the Environment: Ecology Our newest multi-part series is all about transportation engineering from an environmental point-of-view. While it’s one thing to expound on the process of designing a transportation project, we’d like to shed light on the...
Transportation & the Environment: Mitigation
Transportation & the Environment: Mitigation Both our Environmental Manager, Susannah Campbell, and our Fish & Wildlife Biologist, Jeff Herod agree; when it comes to construction, it’s always ideal to completely avoid interacting with sensitive areas and...
Simply Complicated; This is How We Do Industrial
Simply Complicated; This is How We Do Industrial Industrial engineering might seem like something on the fringe to many; it evokes images of smoke stacks and refineries on the outskirts of towns. However, industrial engineering is a part of almost every production...
From Point A to Point B: The Importance of Rural Roadways
From Point A to Point B: The Importance of Rural Roadways We may think of the United States of America as a young country. However, the land we take for granted has been used by man since prehistoric times. You might be wondering what that fact has to do with the...
Together We’re Strong Part 4: Our Cape Girardeau, MO Office
Together We’re Strong Part 4: Our Cape Girardeau, MO Office In 1956, with the help of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the “Federal Aid Highway Act” was passed. What this led to was something we now mostly take for granted; a series of connected highways all across the...
Our Work with the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)
Founded on Principles: Our Work with the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) We are an engineering firm founded on principles, all of which still drive our directions some decades after the fact. President John Quincy Adams describes the unalienable...
Together We’re Strong Part 3: Our Champaign, IL Office
Together We’re Strong Part 3: Our Champaign, IL Office What does a case of homesickness and structural engineering have in common? Our Champaign, Illinois started with these two factors at play. Today, the office houses some of our most skilled structural engineers...
Why We Do What We Do
Why We Do What We Do Why We do it This Way “Why?” might be a common enough question. However, when was the last time you stopped what you were doing and really asked it? Why do you do the work that you do? Why do you live the life that you do? We’ll be honest; the...
The 20%: Women in Engineering Part 3
The 20%: Women in Engineering Part 3 According to the National Girls Collaborative Project, female and male engineering students perform equally well in both mathematics and science. Yet, in 2017 only 9.5% of female freshmen had any intention of majoring in...
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We may think of the United States of America as a young country. However, the land we take for granted has been used by man since prehistoric times. You might be wondering what that fact has to do with the rural roadways of the American landscape.
The truth is, many of the country roads we drive on weren’t put there arbitrarily. They share a long history and one primary thing in common; they get you from point A to point B.
We asked Mike McGregor, Transportation Engineer/Project Manager, for his thoughts on rural roadway design. He explained that its genesis comes from a historical precedent that was set long ago.
From Point A to Point B: The Importance of Rural Roadways
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