A Labor of the Heart February has long been known as the month of love, I assume because it includes Valentine’s Day. So, I am…
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Setting the Standard for Summer Internships: Year Two Reflections and Future Goals
The summer of 2024 marked the second year of our official summer internship program, and it was a remarkable step forward. In 2023, we welcomed…
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Inside Wallace: 2024 Summer Intern Experiences
Another summer has come and gone, and another cohort of interns spent their summers with Wallace, gaining valuable insights into our profession and day-to-day activities….
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Seller/Doer Mentality: A Blueprint For Engineering Success
At Wallace Design Collective, we believe the “seller-doer” mentality is the key to unlocking professional growth and company success. This approach goes beyond technical expertise…
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Meet Thor Wiggins, Our New COO
Wallace Design Collective is proud to announce Thor Wiggins as its Chief Operating Officer, effective May 6, 2024. Thor previously served as a Principal and…
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Meet David Thacker, Our New CFO
Wallace Design Collective is proud to announce David Thacker, CPA, as its Chief Financial Officer, effective May 6, 2024. David joined Wallace in July 2023…
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Meet Darren Burns, Our New CEO
Wallace Design Collective is proud to announce Darren Burns as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective May 6, 2024. He’s Wallace’s third CEO, following Tom…
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Seismic Design in the US: How safe are we, really?
Living in Oklahoma, earthquakes are not something to worry about, or at least they didn’t used to be. We saw a spike in earthquakes a…
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Our Eighth Office Opens in Northwest Arkansas
Here at Wallace Design Collective, it feels like the sky is not the limit ‒ the limit does not exist. As we continue to grow,…
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Intern Spotlight 2023
Intern Spotlight 2023 In school you learn all about the mechanics of your job and how to perform your new job as an AEC professional….
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Engineers on Vacation!
You can take an engineer out of the office, but you can’t take the engineer out of their brain. An engineering degree is, at its…
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Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Structural Engineering
Today, let’s discuss something that’s probably everyone’s favorite topic: what’s the difference between quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC)? They seem interchangeable, right? In…
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Land Planning – Who We Are and What We Do
Times are changing. Actually, times are changing so fast I feel like I can’t quite keep up. Here at Wallace, we have been so busy…
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What Makes a Good RFI
In the AEC industry, we do our best to get things as perfect as we can. Despite our best-efforts, things do not always turn out…
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Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day: STEM Activities around Tulsa, OK, and on the Web
This year, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day falls on February 25th …or is it the 23rd? A quick Google search gives a variety of…
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Paving The Way, Spotlight on Principal, Nicole Watts, PE, CFM
I couldn’t resist the word play there, but it falls woefully short because as our newest civil engineering principal, Nicole can do it all! Nicole…
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Year End Blog Review
Another year has gone by; it sure did go fast! So, let us reflect on the past year. We have had quite a year here…
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Giving Tuesday – Reaching Beyond Our Borders
Giving Tuesday – Reaching Beyond Our Borders It is a truly wonderful time of year. The leaves are all changing colors, pumpkin spice is everywhere,…
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Frights from the Field – Engineers on Site Trips!
Fall weather is arriving and the leaves are changing color and that can only mean one thing: Halloween is around the corner! Maybe you…
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Intern Spotlight 2022
School can teach you almost everything you need to know about performing your new job as an AEC professional. The one thing school can’t teach…
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Wallace’s Civil and Structural Engineering Interns Get Out of the Office and On Site!
What is the point of a summer internship from a company’s point of view? At Wallace, we believe an internship is an investment in our…
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Wallace Lifers
According to the US Bureau of Labor statistics, about 47 million people have left their jobs since the pandemic in search of new employment opportunities….
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Making School Pickup and Drop-off Lines Easier and Safer: A Civil Engineer’s Perspective
As we come to the end of another school year, I always think back to my highs and lows. What went really well this school…
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Company Culture
When I graduated with my bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma, it was 2008. I am sure many of you remember 2008 was a…
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For the Love of Maths
Happy PI Day! In honor of this most amazing mathematical pseudo- holiday that celebrates the mathematical constant pi, or the ratio of a circle’s circumference…
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Year-End Blog Review
Another year is coming to a close and so it is natural to reflect on the past year. We have had quite a year here…
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The Importance of Existing Drawings
The Importance of Existing Drawings I am sure all of you have seen it in movies or TV shows but maybe you never really thought…
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A Day in the Life of a Structural Engineer: Kyle Haskett, PE, Associate
What’s it like to be a structural engineer? This week, one of Wallace Design Collective’s newly promoted Associates, Kyle Haskett, PE, shares with us the…
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Cold-Formed Steel – Who We are and What We Do
At the start of the year, we developed this blog series to spotlight the various services Wallace offers. On June 1, our 40th anniversary, we…
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Wallace Design Collective Intern Spotlight 2021
Almost any professional will tell you that school can only teach you so much – nothing can replace real world experience! Wallace Design Collective understands…
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Engineers Can DIY Anything (Or We Think We Can)
Several years ago, when I was studying to take my licensing exam, I decided to blow off some steam and one thing led to another….
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Retro-Fit Structural Analysis: Prelim Lateral and the 10% rule
Some of my favorite projects involve retro-fit, or modifying an existing structure for a new tenant’s use. One thing I try to stress to architects…
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Engineers’ Alliance for the Arts
By now you have most likely heard of “STEM” or “STEAM”, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics. There has been quite a push…
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Heave or Settlement? Digging into the Cause of Slab on Grade Damage
Slab Investigations As a structural engineer, I get called to investigate all kinds of damage, and I’ve especially seen my fair share of slabs on…
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Kyle Haskett, PE
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Kyle received both his Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering and Master of Science in Civil Engineering-Structural Emphasis from the University of Oklahoma. He is…
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