Just like you would perform regular checks on your vehicle, your furnace or your health, Hydro Ottawa regularly inspects all of our equipment across the city, including our 50,000 hydro poles. On average, a wooden hydro pole has a lifespan of about 40 years,…
Renovation Completed of Bridge with Unique Tensile Forces
This week the Managing Contractor, a joint venture of Royal HaskoningDHV and Arup, handed the fully renovated Tacitus Bridge over to the national transport…
Dewberry Selected to Perform Force Main Replacement Along Highway 274 in South Carolina
Dewberry has been selected by York County, South Carolina, to perform a force main replacement along Highway 274 from Crowder's Creek Pump Station to…
EPA Guidance Provides New Options for Meeting TMDL Goals
The goal of the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program is arguably simple - to develop watershed level conservation plans designed to restore impaired waters and attain applicable water quality standards – but its development and implementation has not…
Philadelphia Water Streamlines Operations with Enterprise Data Management System
The Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) is a municipal utility providing a population of nearly 1.7 million people in three eastern Pennsylvania counties with integrated water, wastewater, and stormwater services. The utility is responsible for planning, design,…
Three Things You Should Know About Managed Services
The simplicity of the user experience that we have grown accustomed to with our smartphones and tablets is in stark contrast to the growing complexity of the cloud computing technology that makes it possible. Enterprise information technology has experienced…
Improving Pipeline Information Sharing
On September 9, 2010, a section of natural gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded leading to significant property damage and the death of 9 people. The cause of the explosion was ultimately traced to defective welds and a decision to increase the…
Top Five Trends in Managed Services
During the last 18 months we have seen a steady increase in the number of requests that we have received from architecture, engineering and constructions companies to manage their software applications for them. The scope includes project design collaboration…
Developing a GIS Web Presence: The Audience-Focused Approach
In the old days, when you wanted to find a restaurant or other business, you had to flip through the yellow or white pages, read each entry, maybe call a few to check their hours, then use an atlas or printed map book to find out how to drive there. The process…