List of Contributions

The only relevant "score" at this point is NFIP (insurance cost reduction) accreditation. Until someone is willing to pay for a surge rating at each "link in the chain" allowing for a proper Factor of "Safety"-i.e., excess load contingency and probability for component failures (based on proper design ...

I am a Past-President of the Louisiana Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers and served as a senior consulting hydrologist to the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (New Orleans east-bank) from 2010 to 2016 and to the Amite River Basin Commission (Baton Rouge region) from ...

Good questions! I think the nature of the work any professional is expected to-or wants to be hired to-perform should define the required skills. So if having a better understanding of special aspects/application of another discipline is crucial to successfully completing tasks- then yeah that fluency ...

When an engineer rises to the level of a "project/program manager" she/he assumes responsibility for "optimizing" recommendations--given the FULL range of goals and constraints--public safety being number one, but also for design functions and limitations (per client), adverse impacts, AND Economic Efficiency--most ...

We (each of us, ASCE, America, and humanity) have our work cut out for us to devise an effective, minimally corrupt, global political approach to the evolving "working hypotheses" regarding significant climate/RSLR change impacts associated with global-scale explosion in population and fossil-fuel-use. ...