-: My name is Will Therosher.
I'm with TKDA here in Duluth and
I'm in the Municipal Services Division.
One of the projects that we'd just completed,
we got a call from a city
and they were looking to do a Trail job.
So, we provided them with a proposal
of what our services would be.
And then, upon receiving acceptance to that proposal,
we went through the process of doing a
design and development project with them.
So they were hoping to improve
one of the parks that they had.
Improve the drainage across the park and
make it more of a year-round use area.
Yeah, once we started the project,
we usually go out and do a site inventory.
Which usually involves a survey.
So, with the size of our office,
I am out there doing the survey,
helping getting the equipment set up,
and actually going around and taking the tow bar shots.
So, once we get all the information from the site inventory,
we bring it all back to the office,
and then we start processing it.
Looking through what their problem areas are
and different types of solutions that we could provide
to the client to address those problems.
When we survey what we're going out and we're measuring
the site, so we're taking a look at the surface,
we're taking a look at how water drains across the surface
and what's out there to start with,
what problems we might come across in forms of
other utilities or are there buildings that are on the site,
what types of utilities are running to those buildings
and what we'd have to take out from the site
in order to improve it.
Once we have a construction set of plans,
usually they go out to bids.
So, different contractors will be bidding on the project
and trying to provide their expertise
to the client based on our design.
I'll be out on the site to start with the survey
and then I'll also be out through construction.
I really enjoy doing the initial surveys,
figuring out what the problems are
and then I enjoy being out on the site during construction
and seeing how different contractors provide their expertise
and figure out how to build the designs that we provide.