Engineering Newsletter - July, 2006

In the July NEWSLETTER we will wet your lips about colored and textured concrete surfaces. There are many products and services available for indoor use and a number of products and services that will allow you to install textured concrete colored to accent your building in and around your lot. The patterns have expanded a good deal in the recent years with new types of add mixtures available to help the product last in severe climate and sun conditions.

The design is based on visual as well as functional considerations and the input of the Architect and Landscape design team is required for exterior paved surfaces.

WEB LINK of THE MONTH,www.elitecrete.com Tells of the technical concerns of colored and textured concrete.

As always, you can count on McSteen and Associates, a multi-faceted second-generation family business that has been serving Northeast Ohio since 1970 to help you better design your project. The McSteen & Associates Engineering and Surveying Departments will design a quality product, using the experience gathered over many years of dealing with government agencies, in a manner readily accepted by the City Councils, County Engineers Office and the Recorders Office. The management team consisting of Terry Feller, President and Registered Professional Engineer and Surveyor, Tim Feller, Vice President and Registered Professional Surveyor and Debbie Feller CFO and Certified Public Accountant and the 62 employees in the offices in Cuyahoga, Lake, Summit, and Franklin counties will handle your project needs. A new office in western Cuyahoga County has recently been added to allow us to provide even more effective services. Local knowledge of the area, extensive records and experience with the area governments allows McSteen & Associates to go the extra mile to protect your investment.

Whether your needs are Mortgage Location and Boundary Surveys, Elevation Certificate, Commercial and Industrial Surveys or complete Engineering Design we are well staffed to provide the professional product you need. Each project will receive the personal service associated with working with a well-established family owned and operated business.

Thoughts for July

There are more than 4 Billion meteoroids that fall to earth each DAY…They are very small, travel at over 130,000 miles per hour and most often never make it to the ground.

Why is something secret on the QT? QuieT.

A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard tour when all of a sudden she hears music. She wanders away from the group and finds the music is coming from the ground under the headstone reading Ludwig van Beethoven. She realizes that the music is the famous Ninth Symphony, but being played backwards. Then she hears the 7th Symphony and then the 5th, each being played backwards. Confused she looks around and sees a grounds keeper. Walking up to him she explains what she has heard.

"Oh, it’s nothing to worry about." Said the grounds keeper. "He’s just decomposing."