List of Contributions

I am an owner, not a consultant. Our contracts allow me to ask for everything the consulting engineer did while billing us: hand calculations, even modeling software input files. But only rarely do I ask for those. The engineer of record needs to justify his or her conclusions and I am fine with leaving ...

I've been a licensed engineer for 29 years. I've supervised numerous employees directly and as the senior engineer reviewing others' work. Now in many ways I am more of a consulting advisor on analyses done by contracting consultants and also advising management on strategic direction. So, what ...

Well, clean water is worth paying for. Excepting persons on public assistance, looking around cities today we see plenty of people with disposable income. Things cost money, and people who benefit from those things have a right to the dignity and responsibility to pay for them. I certainly hope utilities ...

I realize it's an election year so the incumbent party in power is no doubt proud to assert that corporate profits have never been higher than on their watch, but I don't quite see why high profits is a negative for infrastructure. Large company employees and stockholders-such as me, through mutual funds ...

What a divide between the academy and the real world. The recovery from the software outage shows just how resilient our internet we've built undeniably is. And I should hope companies are rewarded for profitability, rather than the opposite. If companies weren't profitable, then naturally government ...