'You're designing something. You're creating something. You're innovating something. And usually it's a solution to something,' Jay Brannon, a civil engineer in the City of Portland, said. - nbclearn
This site is going really well. It's surprising because it's the deepest dig too. We thought it would take them a lot longer. They've done a great job.
I am a born-and-raised Portlander. So a true Oregonian and I've lived actually in Northeast Portland for my entire life. I went to college here at University of Portland where I studied civil engineering, had an environmental science minor. Civil engineering is kind of known as the people's engineering, because it helps people. And the work itself is not-for-profit and the projects are all to help the general public. Sometimes it gives back to people in a bridge or a road.
We are in Forest Park on the Leif Erikson Trail. This is an 11-mile trail in Portland. It gets a lot of hikers, bikers, pedestrians that walk through it. It looks like we're in the middle of the forest, and it is a forest. There's a lot of native plants, native species of trees. We have a lot of species here that show that this is a healthy forest despite being in the middle of a city. Another aspect of the forest is that we get a lot of rainfall.
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