It�s Thursday afternoon. The coffee needs warming; documents, drawings and text books are piled around the office; sticky notes surround the computer; and Gary R. Searer is at his desk studying five unique projects.
�This is a typical day for me,� says Searer, a structural engineer at the Burbank branch of Wiss, Janey, Elstner Associates, Inc. �I don�t just have one big project that I am working on. I am constantly juggling,trying to get one report out the door and start a new project at the same time.�