We are excited to announce the Prattville South Industrial Park Road and Bridge project received an Engineering Excellence Award (EEA) from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Alabama. Project award recipients were honored at the EEA gala along with the 2021 Leadership Development class, the outgoing executive committee, and the member volunteer of the…
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Here at Sain, we know a huge part of achieving success in our firm can be attributed to our employees, so we are constantly looking for ways to engage them. In a nutshell, employee engagement is an employee’s emotional connection with the firm’s mission and goals. By ensuring that employees are engaged, team projects go…
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One of the goals of an internship is to give students hands-on experience in a particular industry. Since beginning her internship at Sain, Ashton Moore considers herself immersed in engineering. We sat down with Ashton to learn more about her Sain experience so far and discussed her plans for after this summer. Interning at Sain…
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Every project in its early planning and engineering stages must take erosion and sedimentation control into account. From 250,000 square-foot industrial facilities to small residential projects – there are practices in place and rules to follow on a state-by-state basis related to keeping excess soil from traveling into water bodies. Erosion is defined as the detachment…
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Bicycling is more than a practical, cost-effective solution to many municipal challenges. It’s an opportunity to make a community a vibrant destination for residents and visitors – a place where people don’t just live and work but an environment where everyone can appreciate the outdoors. Understanding bicycling and walking activity, preferences, and trends is critical…
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About a year ago, Sain published a blog discussing the use of big data as an alternative for traffic data collection during COVID-19. At that time, travel behavior changed, the number of vehicles on the roads had decreased, and peak hours were not the same when compared to pre-pandemic times. Since manually collecting reliable traffic…
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) allow you to visualize, question, analyze, interpret, and understand data to reveal relationships, patterns, and trends. At Sain Associates, we use GIS to support the following engineering activities: converting GIS data to and from CAD, generating aerial clips and 3D contours for design projects, creating GIS-based analysis and report maps for…
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When Randy Sain took the helm of leadership at Sain Associates in 1997 he made it his mission to build a company culture that would make Sain a great place to work. He accomplished that through investments in training, improved business practices, family-friendly work policies, encouragement of working parents and women engineers, and lots of…
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Have you ever wondered what keeps a car from sliding off the road when you go around a curve? Or, have you ever noticed that it’s unnecessary to reduce speed for safety or comfort purposes when driving through a curve, even at high speed? The reason is superelevation. Superelevation is the banking of the roadway…
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We are excited to announce that our new website is here with a completely updated look and feel! Not only does the site look great, but it’s also functional and includes information we hope our clients, colleagues, and prospects will find useful. The website features expanded information on our services, and it even adds a…
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