Sain Associates

Ensuring Employee Engagement in Your Firm

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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Erosion and Sedimentation Control

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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Big Data: Future of Transportation Studies

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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Welcome to Our New Website

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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The Five Year Mark

This past December, I hit a huge milestone – I met the five year mark of being cancer-free.  After receiving the news, I was flooded with many emotions – feeling thankful and having a weight lifted off my shoulders. Most cancers, if they recur, are most likely to recur in the first five years, so…
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Employee Spotlight – Stefan Graeber, P.E.

A few weeks ago, we happily announced the addition of Stefan Graeber, P.E., to our Civil/Site Team. Before joining Sain, he worked as a professional civil engineer in the public and private sectors. His project experience spans all phases of project design, bidding, construction, and project closeout. But did you know that Stefan is a…
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Maintaining Culture during a Pandemic

This week’s blog, written by Becky White, PTP, was recently featured in The Zweig Letter, a unique management newsletter for the AEC community. Every issue is packed with news you can use, analysis of important trends, management tips and best practices, important events and resources, plus an inside look at how real people in real…
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New Hire and Promotions

We have big news to share! We are excited to announce the addition of Stefan Graeber, P.E., to the firm and the promotions of Alicia Bailey, P.E., and Darren Hamrick P.E., LEED AP, MSCE, to enhanced roles. Stefan Graeber, P.E., recently joined Sain Associates as Team Leader of the Civil/Site group in the Birmingham, Alabama…
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Sain’s Newest Shareholder: Paul Gilliam, P.E., PTOE

Last month, we announced the formation of a company ownership program designed to expand company ownership opportunities to three key levels: associate, principal, and senior principal. With the new program, Sain added three new associates – Nathan Currie, P.E., Paul Gilliam, P.E., PTOE, and Jeff Stephenson, P.E., PTOE. For this week’s blog, we are highlighting…
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Sain’s Newest Shareholder: Nathan Currie, P.E.

Earlier this month, we announced the formation of a company ownership program designed to expand company ownership opportunities to three key levels: associate, principal, and senior principal. With the new program, Sain added three new associates – Nathan Currie, P.E., Paul Gilliam, P.E., PTOE, and Jeff Stephenson, P.E., PTOE. We spotlighted Jeff Stephenson a couple…
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