Author: Colliers Engineering & Design

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
SUE Goes to Boca Raton!

Meet our SUE professionals who have been vested and working in this region for many years.
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,…
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…
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…
Next Level Railroad Track Optimizations

Learn how different survey methodologies, including Amberg, can collect precise track and corridor data to help with track optimization.
What Actually Is Survey?

Survey is more than just measuring boundaries and staking out construction sites. Join us as we ask, “What is survey?”
Mobile and Web GIS: Communicating with the General Public

Learn how mobile and web-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) story maps help towns and communities come together and increase engagement!