Day 56 Water Main Project This morning we finally found time to run out to look at the location of our proposed easement for the water main project I’ve been working on. Fortunately it looks like the location in the field where I had planned to take it through a local industry’s property (if theyRead… Read more »
Part of the fun of blogging is the opportunity to connect with others who love what you do. In my case, that’s anything public works related! One of the people I recently talked to online was @lahtnesorm. He’s a civil engineering technology student on Vancouver Island who blogs about CAD. His site has helpful informationRead… Read more »
Day 54 I waited until today to post about yesterday (Tuesday) because I ended up not spending the whole day at work. I started the day preparing for a meeting with the city admininstrator and other directors in the city. Normally my supervisor, the director of public works, goes to these meetings. But since heRead… Read more »
Day 53 Checking Construction We started out our Monday by visiting a couple jobsites to make sure everything was going as planned. First we stopped by a development where they had placed curb last week along the edges of a driveway. The problem was that the sidewalk was supposed to carry through the drive, andRead… Read more »
Day 52 Although I worked in the office for a few hours today mainly on correspondence and checking with our inspector and engineers to find out the status of some projects, most of my day was spent at our APWA Public Works Camp. This event is our second unconference session that we’ve hosted, and bothRead… Read more »
Day 51 Could you tell it was a full moon this week? Because it was so obvious in our office! This has been a phenomena I would have never believed in had I never worked for a city. Every time you start to realize things are just a little over the top than normal, youRead… Read more »
Day 50 Today was Wednesday so we had our engineering division staff meeting. Like our last staff meeting, it seemed there was quite a bit to discuss. Everyone shared the status of their projects and other tasks they have been working on. We have been on schedule with everything except for a few projects thatRead… Read more »
Day 49 APWA Tour of Concrete Products Plant Today we had an APWA luncheon meeting. And after the meeting we toured Welch Brothers – a concrete product manufacturer located in St. Charles, Ill. I knew this would be an outstanding tour because many years ago when I was in college at Iowa State, they tookRead… Read more »
Day 47 As I had mentioned yesterday I took a vacation day on Thursday so I could attend the student-parent day at my daughter’s middle school. But back at work today! And after today, I’m ready to say lock me in a dark, lonely room and hang a sign on the door with a bigRead… Read more »
Day 46 Development Review On a 1 to 10 scale of busy, I’d say today was about an 8. Most of my time seemed to be spent handling issues related to one of the developments I have been reviewing. This particular one has been a challenge because the design has changed throughout the review process.Read… Read more »