De-Icing Without Damaging Historic Masonry
Posted by Joshua Kiehl on Thursday, March 15, 2018
As winter arrives, bringing with it ice and snow, historic building owners are faced with the additional challenge of keeping walkways and steps around their facilities safe for pedestrians and clear of slipping hazards. Safety is always paramount, but long-term damage to...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Architectural | Historic Preservation
March Madness at PRWA
Posted by Entech Engineering on Thursday, March 01, 2018
Along with all the basketball madness happening in March, our four speakers at the 2018 Pennsylvania Rural Water Association’s Annual Conference (PRWA) conference have a tournament of their own – going head-to-head with one another, competing for audience...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Potable Water | Wastewater | Municipal Engineering | Stormwater | Engineering
Pennsylvania Municipal Bid Base Amounts 2018
Posted by Bryon Killian on Friday, January 19, 2018
Each year the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry announces new public project cost thresholds required for public bids. The threshold for 2018 have increased after staying stagnant from 2015-16 to keep pace with inflation.In 2018, the rates increased 2.2% from...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Potable Water | Wastewater | Municipal Engineering | Stormwater | Regulations
SRBC Registration of Grandfathered Water Uses
Posted by Mary Peters on Monday, November 27, 2017
More than 1,300 facilities received a notice this month from the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC), outlining their new program to register unapproved water withdrawals and consumptive water uses in the basin. There may be more than 700 older, unpermitted facilities...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus | Industrial & Manufacturing | Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Potable Water | Regulations
OSHA 1910 Updates: Don’t Trip Up!
Posted by Christine Gunsaullus on Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Earlier this year, while writing specifications for a storage tank rehabilitation, I pulled up OSHA Section 29 CFR Part 1910.23 online and stared in disbelief. This standard used to provide design guidelines for handrails, but instead, I was reading about ladders. Plus many...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus | Industrial & Manufacturing | Municipal Infrastructure | Oil & Gas Infrastructure
Tagged: Regulations