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Dear Ms. Slocum - You may be interested in the attached paper I gave in 2017 on the subject of international ethics as applying to land surveying. The paper is equally appropriate in civil engineering. (I am a professional civil engineer and land surveyor.) Robert W/ Foster, PE, PLS Globalized ...

Not sure what you mean by setting boundaries: In a social sense or in the case of property boundaries? If in a social sense it might refer to personal, ethical or legal boundaries - maybe in the home, at the office or on the street. As for property boundaries, in Massachusetts our law says that a PE ...

Assuming that the Brazilian Rain Forest is as important to our air and global health as claimed, and assuming that we can find a way to quantify the CO2 reduction and oxygen generation that are so important, I suggest we recognize Brazil as a major exporter of a critical commodity, just like sugar or ...

Prof. Barua is right on point. I spend at least a month every year with friends in Greece and am always challenged with the question, why we build everything with lumber in the U.S. only to see whole communities blown away annually in tornadoes and hurricanes then to be rebuilt again, in place, with ...

In the east we have hurricanes, the mid-west has tornadoes, the west coast has fires and mud slides and they worry about earthquakes. Not sure which is worse - depends on where you are, perhaps. But at least with hurricanes we can see them coming and can have a couple of days to get ready. ...