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Collaboration & Coordination
I have a lot of respect for contractors. They are out working every day, rain or shine, often working long hours to meet tight deadlines. Their work is not easy. It is physically draining and requires a wide range of expertise and constant coordination. There are regularly hundreds of workers on a jobsite at one […]
Read MoreShakeOut Recap
With the Great Utah ShakeOut drill taking place yesterday, our team at Dunn Associates, Inc. took some time to reflect on what we learned from our participation over the last 2 years. We polled our team asking the following 3 questions: What did you learn from the earthquake last year? Or from our ShakeOut participation? […]
Read More3D Printing: Building Cities in More Ways than One
For years 3D printing has slowly gained traction in a variety of fields: from printing fun toys, artistic models, functional tools, all the way to printing functional organs out of living cells. In more recent news, great strides have been made by the 3D printing community to print face shields, face mask straps, and ventilator […]
Read MoreFlying to New Heights
Named the 2020 Building Project of the Year by Utah Construction & Design Magazine, the Salt Lake City International Airport Redevelopment has truly been a once-in-a-lifetime project. The phase that just opened to the public back in September of 2020, took approximately 6 years to complete. In this post, our chief engineer shares his thoughts […]
Read More“Will it Tilt?” That is the Question
Perhaps in your explorations of YouTube you have stumbled across a “Will it Taco?” or “Will it Blend?” video. In these videos, the makers ask one simple question: are we able to do this? Whether we are asking if a chicken pot pie will taco or whether an iPad will blend, we as people are […]
Read More‘Tis the Season for Gratitude
Normally, this time of year we are evaluating this past year’s growth to those projections and goals made before the year began. We would normally determine how those projections versus reality could/should influence our decisions for the upcoming year. We would normally discuss how our personal presence in client offices, or on construction sites contributed […]
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