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...
Tak Makino CFM CRS / Flood Mitigation Manager Avoiding Future Losses By Tak Makino, CFM Studies show that every dollar provided by federal hazard mitigation grants prevents six dollars in future losses. Mitigation is a cost-effective tool to address hazard...
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,...
Reyna Johnson PE John Van Hoosier EIT The River and the Highway: How an Interceptor Failure Produced Solutions By Reyna Johnson, PE and John Van Hoosier, EIT During spring 2020, a 104-inch-diameter fiberglass-reinforced polymer gravity interceptor, tucked tightly...
Michael Liga PhD, PE Senior Project Manager Tunneling Challenges on Houston’s Northeast Transmission Line By Michael Liga, PhD, PE Dr. Liga discusses tunneling design, construction and challenges overcame on a 1.2-mile segment of the City of Houston’s 108-inch...
Wayne Swafford PE President Professional Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic By Wayne Swafford, PE President Swafford discusses how engineers can continue developing their knowledge, skills and abilities during the pandemic. Read more in Civil + Structural...
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...
Melissa Mack PE Principal Inside Engineering series: Water System Planning & Modeling By Melissa Mack, PE and team Water models are tools that help provide critical information about water system operations, quality and future planning, including advanced...
