Wright Engineers is part of a design-build team under contract to convert Alcatraz to solar PV electricity. As part of our services, some of our engineers have had to climb all over the buildings. I wondered what it would be like if one of them was "caught" and treated as an Alcatraz escapee.

July 2010 Wright e-News

Nothing like an extended "solar project" to recharge your batteries.

Many of the public projects these days are design-build, a good project delivery method if the construction and design teams partner well together. By having the design team and the construction team to collaborate from the start, the final design can perform better, be easier to build, and cost less.

I love the post office scene in the Jim Carrey movie The Grinch where the postmaster is frantically receiving packages at the counter, stamping them as "RUSH" or "HECKUVA RUSH", and then tossing them back over his shoulder.
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With the instant responses that are expected these days via phone, text, or email, almost everything seems to be a "heckuva rush".
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April 2010 Wright e-news

I visited my daughter Anjuli's 2nd grade class recently (she's the teacher, not a student) to explain what an engineer does and help the students build towers with paper cups, Popsicle sticks and tin foil. All of the students were bright and very cute...
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...and more like the kid on the right.

You wouldn't know it by most of the cartoons I've drawn (including this one), but I hate the stereotype of the nerdy, pencil-neck-geek number-crunching engineer with thick glasses and an undeveloped right brain. Yet, here I go again, advancing the engineer geek stereotype in another cartoon.