Blue Landworks
Blue Landworks provides civil site engineering services across the southeast with professional engineering registration in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Blue Landworks provides civil engineering services for public projects as well as private residential, commercial and light industrial projects serving clients like government, developers, architects, law firms, homeowner associations, realtors and banks.
More on the flood
Yesterday, I mentioned that even though none of the daily rain events amounted to more than 10-year storm event, the cumulative effect of a week’s worth of storms manifested itself as a 100-year storm on Monday and into Tuesday. Turns out that the US Geological Survey is actually saying that in many cases, this was ...read more
Gwinnett County files notice of appeal on federal ruling
Gwinnett County filed a notice of appeal on a federal ruling earlier this year that would no longer allow most of metro-Atlanta use Lake Lanier for its drinking water, despite the fact that it is its primary potable water reservoir and has been for decades. That this is even an issue, despite the fact that ...read more
Taylor Anderson, PE selected to Engage Gwinnett Committee
Blue Landworks LLC announced its owner, and president, Taylor Anderson, PE, has been selected to the Engage Gwinnett committee. Blue Landworks provides civil engineering services for public projects as well as private residential, commercial and light industrial projects serving government, developers, architects, law firms, homeowner associations, Realtors and banks. September 23, 2009 – SUGAR HILL, ...read more
Fed's Beige Book for June 10 in the Southeast
The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book, which tracks anecdotal evidence in the economy in each of the Fed’s districts, had the following notes related to civil engineering and land development in District 6, the southeast: Real Estate and Construction Reports from Realtors indicated that existing home sales were stabilizing overall. Florida contacts noted that the steady ...read more
More Atlanta housing news
The Atlanta Business Chronicle had a good summary of the housing news around the metro area today. Below is a small portion of a lengthy article. For the 12-month period ending in March, Atlanta saw 8,972 housing starts — ranking No. 5 out of the metro areas tracked by Metrostudy. Houston topped the list with ...read more
So much housing news – where to start?
The amount of news on the housing front over the last week or so is staggering. If you’re keeping up with the articles I share, you’re on top of the game. (If you use an RSS reader, use this feed…) However, I wanted to add a little to the mix of articles and organize them ...read more
Georgia going after rail funds…
It seems the timing on my first infrastructure post was impeccable. GDOT announced on Thursday that it would seek federal funding for rail. It even cleared up my question, to a degree, on where the missing link from Louisville to Atlanta was. Well, President Obama’s plan has it missing, but apparently the various state DOTs ...read more
Part 1 – Atlanta Infrastructure – Where we are and where we need to go
Metro-Atlanta was not geographically located very well for the now 5.7+ million inhabitants that call it home. First, the only major water source is the Chattahoochee River, a very small river by drainage basin standards, especially where it feeds metro-Atlanta’s primary drinking source – Lake Lanier. The topography is extreme for a large city – ...read more
Moving forward on infrastructure
America’s infrastructure is in desperate need of attention and if there is indeed one area where government serves the people – all the people – it’s in the responsibility of providing safe, reliable and environmentally sound infrastructure. Unfortunately, it has almost failed in that duty. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, our infrastructure ...read more
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