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Geotechnical engineering wasn’t on David Baska’s mind when he graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1984 as a geological engineer, but a series of fortuitous events conspired to change that. A move to Seattle—a seismic hotbed—a master’s degree from University of California, Berkeley under Harry Seed and a doctorate at the University of…

John Helminski has spent more than four decades shaping Southern California’s water and energy infrastructure. From working with the city of San Diego on its multibillion-dollar Pure Water project to leading major water system upgrades in Los Angeles for WSP, he has built a legacy of engineering excellence and leadership in the region’s vital water…

The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis.​ For a decade, corporate climate action has been described as largely “voluntary.” But that’s starting to change. Between 2018 and 2025 an explosion of corporate climate commitments led to more than two-thirds of the world’s largest companies setting a net…

It’s all well and good eulogising about the technological benefits of incorporating the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) within property management but do the numbers stack up? What is the likely return on investment (ROI) of shifting from the existing reactive model to something distinctly more proactive and predictive? A recent six-month project at a…

Performance improvement plans may seem negative to recipients, but they are actually structured to set employees up for success. Few documents carry more baggage than the performance improvement plan (PIP). For many employees, a PIP signals a formal step toward termination. For supervisors, it can feel like one more HR hurdle in an already demanding…

The Circular Supply Chain Coalition (CSCC) is laying the foundation for a global network of regional recycling nerve centers that would “mine” critical minerals from e-waste. It is pitching the effort as industrial risk management that sidesteps extractive mining. Tariffs, geopolitical pressures and anxiety over access to valuable metals and rare earths have accelerated business’s…