July 2006

There are no stupid questions. Not anymore. They have been abolished. From here on out, I am prohibiting myself from pitching one of them to a designer. Why? Because they simply...

Each community has a special identity-be it a tie to a historic establishment, an industry, an area attraction or the local environment. It is an image that creates a sense of...

As a society, we have come to recognize that human development affects the environment in many forms, and that we are better off when we can minimize that effect. Described in...

The time has come to implement the studies and provide congestion relief to southwest Fort Worth, Texas. The SH 121T (Southwest Parkway) Project has been in the planning stages...

It is said that saving time lengthens life. Thanks to a Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) bridge replacement project, life expectancy just got longer across the Big...

The planning and construction of the 13-mile, $262 million U.S. 29 Lynchburg/Madison Heights Bypass was a long time coming for the citizens in the south-central Virginia college...

Route 66 has become a symbol of the freedom of the open road and the American urge to keep moving west in the hope that a better life is out there. In “The Grapes of Wrath,” ...

Glasgow’s fish must think they are having an acid flashback. Looking up from their watery habitat in the River Clyde at the Kingston Bridge, they are presented with a kaleidoscopic...

Four years ago, you had to look long and hard to find any coal combustion products (CCPs) being used for roadbed stabilization projects in the Texas Panhandle. There were plenty...

Something on the bottom of my shoe could have led to a federal investigation. I was walking the I-355 extension project a few weeks ago, and no matter how carefully I stepped...

Premature distress, in the form of scaling, joint spalling, crazing and map cracking of the slab surface, has been observed on some concrete airfield pavement dedicated deicing...