Our July monthly meeting will be held at the Brown and Caldwell office in Walnut Creek! The address is 201 N Civic Dr Suite 300, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, and we will begin at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 8th, 2025. Take the South Lobby elevator to the 3rd floor.
The presentation will be provided by Xavier Irias, Senior Technical Practice Leader at Woodard & Curran, and is titled “The Seven Deadly Sins of Data Collection and Use”. Every day, in every city, field data are collected to support infrastructure projects: data such as storm drain inverts, locations of water valves, or key topo shots. And every day, one or more of the Seven Deadly Sins of Data Collection and Use are committed, resulting in the risk of design errors and construction snafus. The sins range from those made in the field during data collection, to those made in the office when using the data. This presentation will describe some common mistakes, aka “sins”, and provide straightforward ways to avoid them including proper use of standards.
