Hossein Roshani PhD, PE Project Manager Where the Rubber Meets the Road By Dr. Hossein Roshani, PE Pavement surface texture is a major contributing factor to tire–pavement friction. Understanding the texture-friction relationship is valuable for transportation...
Melissa Mack PE Principal Houston Public Works Makes Improvements to Critical Groundwater Facility By Melissa Mack, PE and Tina Yao, PE (City of Houston) Over the past decades, Houston Public Works has been making improvements at 80 of the city’s existing groundwater...
Jeremy Nakashima PE Regional Manager Jim Holzapfel PE Senior Project Manager 8 Tips States Can Borrow From Northern Neighbors for Future Storms By Jeremy Nakashima, PE and Jim Holzapfel, PE After Winter Storm Uri devastated Texas, water and wastewater utilities are...
Melissa Mack PE Principal Collaborative Approach Enables Improvements at Texas Groundwater Facilities By Melissa Mack, PE In June 2014, Houston Public Works began implementing improvements to 11 drinking water facilities, including the four in the Willowchase system,...
Tak Makino CFM CRS / Flood Mitigation Manager Integrating Asset Management and the Community Rating System By Tak Makino, CFM Asset management takes an integrative approach, combining models of financial planning, maintenance and replacement to ensure that public...
Hunter Hanson PE Hydraulic Engineer Just Wing It – Aerial Surveying for Pipeline Projects By Hunter Hanson, PE A major benefit of aerial surveys is a much quicker turnaround than could be expected from a traditional field crew. For linear projects, a good rule of...
Travis Michel PE Team Leader City of Laredo modernizes its asset management system By Travis Michel, PE After years of communication gaps between different workforce levels, inefficiencies in generating accurate reports, and difficulties in tracking labor and...
Hossein Roshani PhD, PE Project Manager A critical review of roadway energy harvesting technologies By Dr. Hossein Roshani, PE Dr. Roshani was recently published in ScienceDirect, a top-ranked international platform of peer-reviewed literature that helps individuals...
Tak Makino CFM CRS/Flood Mitigation Manager Machine Learning Aids Stormwater Fee Assessment By Tak Makino, CFM Facing a budget shortfall and an urgent need to upgrade its stormwater infrastructure, the City of Mineral Wells contracted LAN and NewGen Solutions, a...
