Community

Let’s Get Out and Walk to School!

National Walk to School Day is an annual event encouraging families and students to walk to school to promote physical activity, reduce traffic congestion, and teach safe walking habits. As an engineering firm, we believe this event is not only important for promoting healthy habits and reducing traffic congestion, but it also presents an opportunity…
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50 Years of Shaping Communities

As a Senior Project Manager at Sain, I lead our transportation and sustainability practices in the Traffic Department to help communities plan for future growth. Sain’s approach is to take a look at the community as a whole to map out a plan that will include transportation analysis to shape a community’s future growth and…
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Fridays with Brother Wayne

In his best-selling memoir Tuesdays with Morrie, author Mitch Albom writes about a series of visits he made to his professor, Morrie Schwartz, as he gradually died from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Albom shares many life lessons he learned from his mentor and friend. Our Community Bible Study Men’s Group in Trussville had a similar…
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50 Years of Building Relationships

Sain Associates is more than engineers, project managers, and consultants – we are relationship builders who strive to solve our clients’ problems. As Sain Associates celebrates its 50th anniversary, I can’t help but feel gratitude for the blessings and relationships that have developed over the last five decades. Our business has survived highs and lows,…
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2020 Fish Fry Becomes Help for the Helpers

For each of the past eight years, Sain has hosted a fish fry lunch for clients and friends. We’ve enjoyed those events so much because they allow us to show appreciation to those in our network who contribute to our success. It’s our annual “thank you” event. With the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, we are taking…
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The Importance of Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety

The Greater Birmingham Regional Planning Commission hosted the Federal Highway Administration’s Designing Streets for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety Workshop on February 20th and 21st. I had the opportunity to attend as a representative of Sain Associates, along with other consultants and individuals from local municipalities and organizations. The two-day workshop was centered on bicycle and…
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