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| Founded as a transportation planning firm in 1980, BLA has evolved into a full-service survey, planning, engineering and environmental firm serving clients throughout the U.S. and abroad. While maintaining its strong focus on planning, today the firm addresses a wide variety of needs from early data collection and modeling through public involvement, design, and construction oversight. This comprehensive range of services allows BLA to better understand and appreciate client’s ultimate goals and how to achieve them. Planners and designers have access to a wide variety of expertise in-house readily available to provide insights on specific planning and design considerations, permitting, costs, and a host of other subjects.
Check out our Low Impact Design page for details on how we are working on incorporating green, sustainable, low impact design practices into our services.
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| NewsBLA's Indianapolis Office has Moved Visit us at our new location 3502 Woodview Trace, Suite 150 Indianapolis, Indiana BLA Opens Office in St. Louis Visit us at our newest office 411 North 10th Street, Suite 200 St. Louis, Missouri
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SRMS: Helping Communities’ Transportation Investments Go Farther
A “perfect storm” in transportation infrastructure for communities and counties is brewing through a combination of volatile fuel and construction materials, decreasing revenues for road maintenance, uncertainty in future highway funding, and increasing complaints about road conditions. One way for communities and counties to address this critical challenge is to adopt a preventive maintenance approach to prolong the life of their pavement assets. Click here to see how one community tackled this challenge.
What Bridges are Teaching Us About Bats
Long misunderstood, today bats are gaining popularity due in part to their role in controlling pests that harm crops and carry diseases. As development spreads, bats are being pushed out of their traditional roosts and are looking for new homes, like bridges.Click here to see how one such bridge in Southwestern Indiana is unveiling new information about the endangered Indiana bat, which may help stabilize its population and eventually move it off the endangered species list.
Green Approach to Combined Sewer Overflows Saves Streams & Money
Today the US EPA estimates that there are over 770 communities in 31 states and the District of Columbia with combined sewer systems serving 40 million people. These systems discharge around 850 billion gallons of untreated wastes into rivers, streams, lakes, and estuaries each year, polluting waterways with bacteria and other pathogens, toxic chemicals, pesticides, and debris.
Click here to find out how BLA is using cost-effective green technology to help communities address this problem.
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