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In the A/E industry, we all know that Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS) is the preferred process for soliciting interest, evaluating qualifications, selecting and contracting with engineers, surveyors, architects and other design professionals for public projects.  We also know that the effective selection and contracting with engineers and architects represents a major challenge for all public officials including state agencies, county commissioners, city councilmen, county and city managers and procurement officers.
   
This challenge is manifest in the manner .... READ MORE18

You would expect a lot of changes in a company that spans the latter half of the 20th century, but as Jordan, Jones & Goulding celebrates 50 years in business, it looks to the values it set in the beginning to keep the company moving forward: building longstanding relationships with communities across Georgia and the Southeast to make good communities even better.

President and CEO Don Allen sums it up this way—"It has been our privilege to work with so many great clients who have put their faith in JJG to meet a need, improve people's quality of life, protect natural resources,.... READ MORE18

Avoid costly surprises in the planning phase of a project using UPC's Design Locate Request  to help identify what type of utilities
  already exist on the project site. Determine the location of existing utilities, the size and material of the facilities. Will it support the type of project that is planned? Would the plan need to be designed around an existing facility? Will it be costly to relocate the utilities? Is sewer available on the project site? Design Locates will help you answer all of these questions. UPC's Design Locates request can assist by providing mapping inform.... READ MORE18

Ask a typical teenager to describe an engineer, and more likely than not, the image will focus on someone, usually male, who designs and builds cars, bridges, buildings and the like. While the example is certainly valid, this narrow and outdated image is troubling on several levels.

First (and most obviously), we live in an increasingly diverse society where women and minorities make up the majority of college students. Female students are indeed flourishing in a few areas of engineering (industrial and biomedical engineering, for instance) and making slow but steady inroads into m.... READ MORE18

Would you like to limit your exposure for professional liability to the amount of your contract fees?  In many states, design professionals can do just this under certain conditions.  In Georgia, however, the state Supreme Court for the first time examined and struck down a clause that would limit an engineer's liability to the amount of its contract fee.   
   
The Court found the broad sweep of the particular clause under examination to violate Georgia's public policy.  The Court, however, provided hints as to how a "limitation of liability" cla.... READ MORE18

If you're like most people, you've encountered situations where you had to do something, even though there was something else you really wanted to do. Perhaps you wanted to take the kids to a movie, but you had to finish a project for work. Or maybe you had to attend a meeting, but you wanted to spend the afternoon working out. Chances are that whatever you had to do won out, and what you wanted to do got put on the back burner…yet again.
   
Such a scenario happens all the time. People are torn being doing what they want to do (which usually involves personal activities.... READ MORE18

Gresham, Smith and Partners, a leading national engineering, architecture and planning firm, announces the design of a 12.5- mile intelligent transportation system (ITS) for the Gwinnett County Department of Transportation is complete.  The design calls for installation of a fiber optic communications network and associated ITS technology, including closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, along Sugarloaf Parkway, a principal arterial roadway in Gwinnett County between Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and SR 20/Grayson Highway.  This ITS will be incorporated into the GDOT NaviGAtor sy.... READ MORE18