In an effort to keep talented women from leaving the engineering firm, PAE created a new paid-leave policy that the firms says is “unique” in the nation’s engineering industry.
As Southeast construction activity remains robust, up-and-coming industry professionals are making valuable contributions on jobsites, at their companies and within local communities
Supporters of an updated structural building-design standard, developed by the American Society of Civil Engineers, are breathing a collective sigh of relief after members of the International Code Council voted down an attempt to keep the standard, known as ASCE 7-16, out of the 2018 edition of ICC’s International Building Code and its other model codes.
One of Europe’s notable museums of art and design this month started detailing structural engineering, focusing on the work of Anglo-Danish Ove Arup, whose firm he founded in 1946.
Many firms endured the economic hardships of the 2008 recession with varying degrees of success, but Fort Worth-based Huckabee took a novel approach: It retained staff and boosted its expertise while work was limited, waiting for the right opportunity to help clients start building again.
ENR Texas & Louisiana has named Huckabee as its 2016 Design Firm of the Year. Huckabee, a firm focused on learning environments, has exclusively served educational clients for 49 years and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2017.