2025 RRSLA INTERNSHIP BLOG

Salutations Peeps! I hope all is peachy and all is right in your worlds, A month between blog posts, damn.......shoutout to the folks still posting. I truly enjoy reading about your adventures and perspectives. Assignment Updates: To be completely honest I've been slacking on my assignment logging in my internship journal. Despite this I have in fact still of course been doing things. Here are a few off the dome... I recently visited one of our project sites in New Orleans, which is being developed to manage stormwater from a nearby flood-prone residential area. What you're looking at here is the energy dissipater located at the north weir. This feature is designed to slow the flow of collected water as it enters the site. The water travels through a series of large granite boulders, reducing its velocity before reaching several designated retention areas. This helps protect the site from erosion while enhancing overall stormwater management. These photos are from a recent site...

 Not much excitement in the office the past few weeks. Everyone is pretty busy with their own projects and they don't really need me bothering them for busy work. I got back from a beach trip on Sunday but before I left I completed a permit set that had been in the database since like 2022. They started it way back when, and since I wasn't busy they told me to get on it. ...some yoga center in Harris County, TX. Thought it came out ok considering all the linework in this file hadn't been touched for years. Apparently codes in Texas are all kinds of out of wack. Every other block has a totally different standard for everything, it's redonculous. We just sent these drawings in last week so we'll see what they say. Before my beach trip I was in two summer school classes but now that those are over I can start putting in 40 hours a week again. I've been working from 8-12 every day since late May, so my pockets have been severely empty. It was honestly so ass having ...

    Fun words and pictures for you poor interns bored at work. Fun rooftop garden I have been working. Todd Graves just purchased and is building this along the Katy Trail. Other than that its epic pool, gate, driveway, and garden revisions for construction documents on autocad and model updates on sketchup and Lumion. I havent been doing many site visits lately but I supplement it with lunch bike rides.    Our newest intern is actually working with TCLF doing research and papers. I think what she does is very cool because whats all the excitement about if it aint culturally influencing. This was the publish for NOLA. See any you recognize? GEORGE W. BUSH LIBRARY GARDENS cool plants from the George W. Bush library. I havent seen any passiflora blooms up here until I visited these library gardens. hotdog! Eustoma exaltatum ; prairie catchfly gentian had a very showy bloom during this hot portion of the year. big ole tiger swallowtails coming around. I do not even kno...

Howdy gang! I hope all is going well and smooth in your lives. WE MADE IT TO 10 BLOGS!! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Assignment Updates: WEEK TWENTY-TWO ·          The week was spent producing the iterations of the putting green for JD Clifton Park. It’s my first time experimenting with golf design, it’s a unique niche in the profession. It’s been a mix of research to find precedents, contacting synthetic turf dealers to inquire about their scope to see if my ideas are viable options, and lots of scratch paper. ·          Amy is currently on vacation, so Conner and I are both working through grading of the site. He is in Vectorworks working up a 3D Model of the site based on the topography Amy left out for him. WEEK TWENTY-THREE ·          Was assigned Roseate Beach Hardscape redlines from Zach and Danielle, completed them by the next day. ·      ...