Larry VandeVenter, Kleinfelder VP of Major Accounts, was interviewed by Wicked Local Wareham about Kleinfelder’s design for the renovation of the Maple Springs Water Purification Plant. (September 2017)
With the devastation brought on by Hurricane Harvey, coastal cities are raising the question about their readiness for comparable storms. Kleinfelder’s Senior Planner for Climate Change Risk & Resiliency, Nasser Brahim, talks with WBUR about the vulnerabilities of coastal cities like East Boston and how cities can decrease their vulnerability against super-storms and coastal flooding. (August 2017)
Kleinfelder’s Linda Lannen’s article, titled “Diversity & Inclusion Can Drive Better Solutions for Clients and Employee Engagement,” focuses on diversity and inclusion and its positive impact to business profitability and employee collaboration. (January 2017)
Kleinfelder’s Trent Parkhill’s article, titled “Common Misunderstandings with Geotechnical Work,” focuses on several related topics pertaining to the workflow between structural and geotechnical engineers. (January 2017)
Kleinfelder’s Mahdi Ebrahimian in collaboration with Maria I. Todorovska and Tomasz Falborski, authored “Wave Method for Structural Health Monitoring Testing Using Full-Scale Shake Table Experiment Data” that validates a new method for a Structural Health Monitoring on data recorded during a shake table test on a full-scale seven-story slice of a shear wall building. (January 2017)
Kleinfelder’s Ali Abdullah, PhD, a staff engineer in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, office recently co-authored a paper titled “Preliminary Investigation of the Relationships Between HMA Compressive and Tensile Dynamic Modulus.” The paper summarized research on the relationship of two different tests on asphalt pavement samples. The goal was to evaluate the potential for savings if one test (the compressive test) could be also be used to accurately estimate the results of the other test (the tensile tests). (December 2016)
