Significant Impacts of Civil Engineering in Today’s Society
You may thank civil engineers every time you use an electrical device, turn on a faucet, get on a bus, or drive down a road. Civil engineers create structures, buildings, and large-scale public works projects that make contemporary life possible. The study of...

How to Implement Effective Erosion & Sediment Control?
Utilizing man-made structures, land management techniques, or organic processes to block or slow the movement of silt from a site during construction is known as construction erosion and sediment control. The normal atmosphere is significantly stressed by urbanization...

What is Stormwater Management & Why is it important?
As urban development increases and communities expand outward from their centers, they replace natural surfaces with impervious surfaces, which are mainly artificial structures – such as pavements (parking lots, sidewalks, and roads) all of which are considered paved...
Vista Street NE Project
Went to site today thats currently under construction. Sera Engineered did the survey, civil engineering, and landscape design! I am super excited to see the retaining wall, driveway, landscape grading, permeable pavers and parking design come to reality.

How to network from my prospective
At the beginning of my career, I went to as many networking events as I could find in the DC metropolitan area. The goal of going to these networking events was to bring me out there, get to know other people in the industry, etc. The first event I ever went to, was...

Thoughts on the 2019 Stormwater Management Regs updates!!!
The 2013 stormwater management manual is a current reflection of the most recent stormwater management design in washington dc regulations that are in place as a result of the EPA issuing their permit that DOEE had to meet. Since then, DOEE has sent out two errata,...