Timothy Allinson

Designer's Guide

Copper Pipe Joints

Do you braze or solder copper pipe?

January 9, 2017

Timothy Allinson

First, I would like to start by wishing everyone a Happy New Year! We now have a new code in...

Designer’s Guide

Grease Interceptors 101

The basics of design and common mistakes.

December 5, 2016

Timothy Allinson

First, I would like to start by saying Happy Holidays and New Year to all. I don’t know about you,...

Designer’s Guide

An Engineering Marvel

The famous fountain at the Bellagio proves to be a feat of engineering.

November 7, 2016

Timothy Allinson

Last month, I had the good fortune to take a short vacation in Las Vegas. I stayed in the newly...

Designer’s Guide

Skydiving and Air Pistons: It’s Just Math

Addressing the challenge of designing a net for the ultimate skydive wasn’t a light task for this engineer.

October 7, 2016

Timothy Allinson

You may have seen that, back on July 31st, a daredevil skydiver named Luke Aikins performed a world record skydive...

Designer’s Guide

Compressed Air Solutions

September 6, 2016

Timothy Allinson

The woman I’m dating lives on the waterfront in Newport Beach, SoCal. Her unit faces a marina that separates Newport...

The green goo mystery is solved!

August 10, 2016

Timothy Allinson

Back in February 2016, I wrote about water quality and a recent phenomenon occurring here in Southern California on some...

Hybrid MPG

July 11, 2016

Timothy Allinson

The other day one of our estimators ran a gas system design past me that came across his desk from...

Water hammer arrestors

June 6, 2016

Timothy Allinson

In this world of entropy, where everything constantly gets more complicated rather than less, water hammer arrestors are no exception. For...

Open parking structures revisited

May 9, 2016

Timothy Allinson

When I first started writing this column back in September of 2002 my very first article was on open parking...

Pull planning

April 6, 2016

Timothy Allinson

As if we didn’t already have enough to do, I’m sure many of you are familiar with and frequently hampered...

Articles by Timothy Allinson

Copper Pipe Joints

Grease Interceptors 101

An Engineering Marvel

Skydiving and Air Pistons: It’s Just Math

Compressed Air Solutions

The green goo mystery is solved!

Hybrid MPG

Water hammer arrestors

Open parking structures revisited

Pull planning

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