I spent vacation last week at home and got the chance to visit with my oldest daughter and her husband. He is a Marine stationed…
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Stop and Smell the Roses
Stop and smell the roses…sure it’s an old cliché, but do we really stop and do it? As engineers and architects, we create structures that…
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What Bunny Slope? An Update from Allison Taylor
Here’s an update to my post from December: A week ago today, I found myself at the highest altitude I’ve ever been to – on…
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Together We Make A Family
My wife and I had a wonderful life-changing experience ten years ago when we adopted our first child through DHS and began our family. We…
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Getting Off the Bunny Slope
The definition of a New Year’s resolution is a promise to do an act of self-improvement starting on New Year’s Day. Reflecting back on 2013,…
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A Global Experience
Very often in my dealings with clients, colleagues, or people I haven’t met before, I am asked where I am from. No one seems to…
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Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful to be an Engineer at Wallace Engineering
You can just imagine my delight to see the last Origin entry, ‘Be Aware of Your Surroundings’, expertly penned by our own Sam Ray, was…
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Structural Condition Assessments
There are several issues that arise when modifying existing structures that differentiates these types of projects from ground-up design and construction. One such issue is…
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Metamorphosis
It’s August in Oklahoma; hot, sticky and you still have the lawn mowing to look forward to this weekend. It can’t be helped, right? Well,…
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A while back I was perusing articles about the physical office spaces and campuses of “way out there” companies like Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon. …
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