Hesitation kills opportunity. Some say patience is a virtue, but only if you know exactly what you are waiting for. Do not confuse the virtue of patience with the bad trait of hesitation. If you don’t know what you are waiting for, or are stuck in a rut, and you are presented with a new [...]
Archive for the ‘Earth/Water’ Category
Hesitation Kills Opportunity / Careers – by Brad Burke, PE
Posted: December 20, 2011 by Brad Burke, PE in Construction, Current Employment Commentary, Earth/Water, Heavy Civil, Industry News and Commentary, Power & EnergyTags: employment news, Executive Search and Placement
DEG = Professional-Grade Service, by Brad Burke, PE
Posted: September 15, 2011 by Brad Burke, PE in Current Employment Commentary, Double Eagle News, Earth/WaterTags: Executive Search and Placement
My first job out of college I worked for a man was truly self-made; He asked me once “Do you ever wonder why Mercedes dealerships rarely go out of business – even in the tough times?” Being a greenhorn engineer I really didn’t have a good answer. He went on to explain that “Quality” is [...]
Double Eagle News July 2011
Posted: July 25, 2011 by Skip Black CPC in Current Employment Commentary, Double Eagle News, Earth/Water, Heavy Civil, Industry News and Commentary, Power & EnergyTags: architecture, Construction, employment news, Heavy Civil
Industry News 25Jul11 International markets are active as general construction, civic buildings, and major infrastructure projects come online. Hospitality continues to find resonance in Vietnam, Hong Kong, and UAE. Domestically we are having increased RFPs in the Mid-Atlantic for AEC and MEP work. Our Heavy Civil team is spiking in mining inquiries. Earth/Water has several [...]
Innovation and the NEW American Dream
Posted: July 21, 2011 by Brad Burke, PE in Construction, Current Employment Commentary, Double Eagle News, Earth/Water, Heavy Civil, Industry News and CommentaryTags: architecture, employment news, Heavy Civil, waste water, water environmental
There has recently been a lot of talk about innovation, and how innovation will be one of the major keys for pulling the United States out of this global recession. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria devoted a whole program on how Technological Innovation will help restore the “American Dream”, and how both private enterprise and federal government [...]
The Next War on Drugs – Coming Soon to Your Kitchen Tap
Posted: July 21, 2011 by Brad Burke, PE in Current Employment Commentary, Double Eagle News, Earth/Water, Industry News and CommentaryTags: green build, water environmental
If you live in a major urban area and go to the kitchen tap to fill a glass of water, you’re placing faith in a water supply and treatment system that is probably at least 50 years old – a great system designed to supply hundreds of thousands of homes with clean, reliable and inexpensive [...]
The Dog and The Nail
Posted: July 21, 2011 by Brad Burke, PE in Current Employment Commentary, Double Eagle News, Earth/Water, Industry News and CommentaryTags: employment news, water environmental
A young man who went for his daily walk in the neighborhood would always pass by an old house on the edge of town. On the porch lay a big dog and the dog’s owner rocking away in a chair. Every night, the dog wailed in pain as he laid there; it seemed to get [...]
Wanted: PROBLEM SOLVERS !!!
Posted: June 30, 2011 by Brad Burke, PE in Construction, Earth/Water, Heavy Civil, Industry News and CommentaryTags: Construction, Heavy Civil, waste water, water environmental
A professor of mine once said “If you want to ‘understand’ a problem ask a scientist, but if you want to actually SOLVE a problem, ask an engineer.” Both have their place, both are necessary – but in our current economic and political climate, tight budgets will be allocated more towards DOING, and less towards [...]
Market Drivers in a “Cautious Economy”
Posted: June 14, 2011 by Brad Burke, PE in Earth/Water, Heavy CivilTags: Construction, Heavy Civil, water environmental
The merging of low property values, an ever available labor force, along with the real (and political) need to create jobs are the new market drivers for development and infrastructure projects as our “cautious economy” tries to find its way. Project and hiring activity in Infrastructure & Development is expected to increase in 2011 and [...]
Environmental engineers/water activety up considerably
Posted: June 7, 2011 by Skip Black CPC in Earth/WaterTags: waste water, water, water environmental
With the addition to our staff of Brad Burke PE Mgr: Earth/Water our company activity regarding earth/water has spiked. With the North American water shed under increasing pressures from community and industrial users Double Eagle Group is conducting several searches for clients concurrently. I suspect that ground water, rivers/dam/dike/levees as well as municipal/industrial water concerns [...]
Professionalism & High Standards Breeds Teamwork
Posted: January 13, 2012 by Brad Burke, PE in Construction, Double Eagle News, Earth/Water, Flying the Flag, Heavy Civil, Industry News and Commentary, UncategorizedTags: employment news
As Professional Engineers, we are mandated by statute to maintain certain professional standards and ethics to protect the integrity of our profession and the common welfare. The same can be said for Registered Geologists, Land Surveyors, Certified Hazardous Material Managers, or whatever professional registration you have. That same sense of professional integrity and ethics is [...]