Author: Colliers Engineering & Design
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It’s National 811 Call Before You Dig Day!
It’s August 11, or 8/11, and you know what that means… It’s National 811 Call Before You Dig Day! As a reminder to residents and excavators alike, calling 811 to locate your utilities before you dig underground is for your own safety! Having your utilities marked-out is a nationally free service and it is also…
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Experts Choose Experts: Adaptive Reuse in NYC
New York City is home to 8.38 million people, according to the 2020 census. Since our country’s inception in the 1700s, NYC has been a center of commerce and culture. That being said, much of its infrastructure is over a century old. Packed tight with museums, restaurant, hotels, theaters, schools and of course, residences, NYC…
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CED Ranked on Top Engineering Lists!
For the first time, Colliers Engineering & Design (CED) has ranked in the top 100 of Engineering News Record’s Top 500 Design Firms, coming in at number 85! This annual list ranks companies according to design services revenue for the previous calendar year. CED’s position in the top 100 is a direct result of the…
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Field of Dreams
The vision for the fully accessible recreation facility known as the Field of Dreams was conceived by a family whose young son sustained severe brain trauma from a serious car accident which left him disabled. Out of passion for their son and a lack of recreational areas that catered to his abilities they formed a…
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Cow Key Earns 2022 FES Miami Award
After successful implementation of several first-time innovations, the City of Key West’s bridge rehabilitation and three-span replacement of the northbound and southbound bridges on US-1 over Cow Key Channel (Bridge Nos. 900086 & 900125) was awarded the 2022 FES Miami’s Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. This innovative bridge rehabilitation replaced Spans 2, 3 and 4 using…
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Spring Safety: Working Around Plants, Insects, and Animals
With spring’s warm days and glimpses of nice weather comes changing environmental hazards. Do you have bees that seem to appear by your door every year? Do you think about the animals coming out of hibernation? Or the fact that warm weather often means more skin exposure? Always maintain environmental awareness, whether you are doing…
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Women In Survey
Alice Cunningham Fletcher was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and social scientist. She studied and documented Native American culture. Alice is also widely considered the first female surveyor and was regarded as effective and skilled. But women in survey were still very rare. In 1922, Irene Barclay was the first woman to qualify in England as…
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SUE Goes to Boca Raton!
Meet our SUE professionals who have been vested and working in this region for many years.
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What Actually Is… Bridges & Structures Deliverables
Bridges & Structures Deliverables? If you’re anything like I used to be, you probably don’t have tons of knowledge on what engineering firms produce. Like, we all understand that a cookie manufacturer produces cookies to its customers. An artist creates a painting or a drawing as final products. But what about an engineering, architecture, design,…
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What Actually is Cultural Resource Management?
Cultural Resource Management. When I first started working here, I remember hearing that phrase and having absolutely no clue what on earth that could mean. It never really came up in the work I did, so I never gave it a second thought. But that’s changed, because I was alerted to the fact that our…
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Discover Local History With a Click of Your Mouse
The Benbow Park neighborhood in the City of Greensboro, North Carolina is filled with a rich history. Richard Barron and Nancy McLaughlin at Greensboro.com report that the City is documenting its history with a new ,000 grant from the National Parks Service’s African American Civil Rights program. This enables an architectural historian to document historic…
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Next Level Railroad Track Optimizations
Learn how different survey methodologies, including Amberg, can collect precise track and corridor data to help with track optimization.