GMC Schema Issue 07
In this issue: A guide to comprehensive community planning, the impact of drones on the AEC industry, GMC’s recent acquisitions, project updates and more! Click on the publication below to read the digital edition. Schema is a publication of GMC designed to keep clients, business partners, employees and others informed on company news and to provide insight on industry […]
Schema Issue 05 | Fall 2017
In this issue: Working to resolve taste and odor issues in drinking water, celebrating UAB’s return to the gridiron, picking up the pieces after natural disasters, construction updates and more. Click on the publication below to read the digital edition. Schema is a publication of GMC designed to keep clients, business partners, employees and others informed on […]
Choccolocco Park wins again
The City of Oxford’s 370-acre sports complex has received national recognition once again, being named one of “9 American Ballparks Every Planner Must See” by SportsEvents Magazine. SportsEvents editors searched around the country for baseball and softball facilities that ‘wow’ planners and attendees. They narrowed down their selections to 28 total complexes, divided into two categories: […]
Restoring natural stream processes to protect the Mobile Bay Estuary
Following decades of urban development, Mobile Bay’s estuarine waters, located in coastal Alabama, were being compromised as a result of feeder streams and watershed dumping 14 times the expected amount of sediment into the Bay. Utilizing a combination of sound engineering and stream restoration design techniques, a creative team of Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood (GMC) […]
Mitigation Banking 101
The impact of commercial and industrial development on wetlands and streams, and whether this development and protection of the environment can coexist, is a major topic of discussion right now. Mitigation banking provides an opportunity to offset some of the negative impacts development may have on the environment; however, the process remains a mystery to […]
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…what happens when it’s both?
Less than two minutes after taking off from LaGuardia Airport on Jan. 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of geese at 2,818 feet above ground level, causing both engines to lose power. Astoundingly, Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, a former fighter pilot with nearly 20,000 flight hours of experience, was able to regain control […]