The Designing a Better Wisconsin Blog features stories and projects from the ACEC WI membership highlighting the critical nature of engineering work, life/saftey impacts, and cost-effective, innovative solutions.
Water Quality Trading in the City of Brodhead is exceeding expectations and inventively removing more than five times the amount of phosphorus than comparative and significantly more costly wastewater treatment plant upgrades. Continue Reading
This project exemplifies how innovative engineering techniques can be leveraged to provide a social, economic, and sustainable community asset from otherwise unutilized public land. Continue Reading
One of downtown Milwaukee’s hot spots is dramatically improved for both pedestrian and vehicular users alike, thanks to the engineering behind the N. 2nd Street rehabilitation project. Continue Reading
Incorporating UAS into the field operations provided numerous benefits both in collecting the data and delivering documentation that can be used for future inspections. Continue Reading
For decades, a former petroleum storage site stood vacant. This reimagined site turned a longtime unused property into a dynamic and beneficial development that will provide the City of Port Washington with an additional tax base for years to come. Continue Reading
Written By: Troy Robillard, PE, Ayres Slicing through the City of Manitowoc’s north side, this roughly 3-mile-long urban reconstruction project had it all when it comes to road project complications, all spread out over two years of construction.Slicing through the City of Manitowoc’s... Continue Reading
Written by: Shawn O’Shea, AICP, ASEL, sUAS and Jeff Powell, sUAS of MSA Professional Services Technology is integrated into our lives like never before — from smart phones with 100,000 times the computing power of the Apollo 11 computer, to using technology to manage complex systems... Continue Reading
Written by: Ryan T. Amtmann, PE, Ruekert & Mielke, Inc. The Village of Mukwonago was in the early stages of siting a new business park when a growing local business, Banker Wire, approached the Village Administrator with their plans for expansion. Banker Wire preferred to keep their... Continue Reading
Bruce Morrow, PLA, LEED AP, Ayres Many communities have them: Cool spaces that no longer function to their full potential. Downtown Sheboygan had one of these spaces, and the City also had very good reasons to fix it. Mead Library Plaza was introduced in the 1970s with a bang. The City hired... Continue Reading
Written by: Laura Schroeder, P.E., PTOE, RSP, raSmith Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA) is a valuable tool that is becoming increasingly important to state and local governments to understand if a roadway improvement is economical and as a tool in comparing multiple improvement alternatives. To conduct... Continue Reading
Written by: Brian Pehl, PE, Short Elliott Hendrickson Challenge The Bark River Restoration in Delafield began as a volunteer effort by the Friends of the Bark River community group, who were seeking to clean up the river and make this natural feature more accessible and inviting to users. Yet,... Continue Reading
Written by: Bill Honea, PG, Ayres Located only four miles from Milwaukee, the small community of Glendale, Wisconsin, is recognized as “one of the most progressive of the northeast Milwaukee suburbs.” Recently, the City demonstrated this to be true once more, teaming with planning... Continue Reading
