Articles written by Jay Schlosser

Jay Schlosser|Jun 11, 2016

As a municipal service engineer for over 15 years, I cannot count the times I have been asked about a decision I have made regarding a public facility. Most of the time it is a genuine desire to understand why we chose to pursue a certain project. On a few occasions, it's a veiled criticism of what was, to the asker, an obviously wrong choice. The practice of civil engineering and municipal project design does not always follow a path of obvious short-term needs. Instead, in many cases it is an...