Trisha Miller

Lochrane is fortunate to have Trisha Miller as our new Senior Utility Coordinator. Trisha's background is with the Florida Department of Transportation District 5, where she has worked for more than 12 years, and gained 7 years of Utility Coordination experience in the Utilities Department. She has managed and certified more than 100 projects over the last 4 years including:

• Central Florida Commuter Rail Transit
• SR 44, US 301 and SR 464 CSX Grade Separation Design Build
• SR 46 Lake Jesup Design Build
• SR 15 from SR 15 (Colonial Drive) to South of SR 423 (Lee Road) Resurfacing
• SR 500/US 192 Indian River Relief Bridge Design Build
• SR 40 From SR 45 (US 41) to CR 225A (SW 8th Avenue) Resurfacing
• SR A1A Indian River County Line to just North of Oak Street Resurfacing
• SR 442 @ Airpark Blvd. (Traffic Signal Update)
• I-4 Orlando Utilities Commission Substation Reconfiguration at SR 408

This is in addition to coordinating and managing value engineering contracts and 30 studies, as well as processing mapping coordination during the last year. Trisha has played a significant role in both the District 5 Annual Utility Liaison and Florida Utility Coordination Committee Events. As you can see her extensive experience has gained her knowledge of the requirements of the process of utility coordination for transportation and public projects. She now brings this experience to work for our clients as part of the Transportation Division at Lochrane.

Bringing Trisha on board reinforces Lochrane's commitment to this specialized service that supports the firm's seamless approach to providing top quality Subsurface Utility Exploration and Utility Engineering services to our clients. Lochrane's Utility Design and Engineering process focuses on the importance of minimizing impacts to utilities from the proposed drainage design in an effort to minimize costly project expenses and potential claims during construction.

In a never ending stride to keep up with the latest in technology, Lochrane Engineering, Inc. of Orlando, Florida has stepped forward to adopt the Apple iPhone for its business communications. As of August 4, 2008 Lochrane Engineering migrated all its Blackberry Users and Blackberry Enterprise Server to the Apple iPhone 3G with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007® as it Email Engine.  Since then, Lochrane Manager are not looking back and are conducting business with the world at their fingertips.

Since its release in May 2008 the Apple iPhone 3G® has emerged itself into the Business Market with immense pressure in an attempt to knock out Blackberry and the other various Smartphones. However, the Apple iPhone 3G is in a genre of its own. Like the Blackberries, iPhone users are able to access their Email, Calendars, and Contacts wirelessly, but without the need of an expensive 3^rd party or Middle Man application to make it all function.  Lochrane Engineering's IT Staff have noticed an increased speed in Synchronization in comparison to the Blackberries; therefore, iPhone users are now able to receive client email quicker and able to reply to clients on the fly.  Communication with clients is key in the Architectural, Engineering and Construction Industry, especially when the primary form of communication is strongly moving toward email. In addition, Managers are able to take project photos quickly and easily transmit them back to the design team immediately.

For Lochrane Engineering, training for all new iPhone Users was a snap, since the user interface of the iPhone is much more user friendly than that of the Blackberry.  Lochrane staff really warmed up to the iPhone quickly since it was easy to navigate around the iPhone's intuitive menu.

With the exploding and ongoing development of new Applications for the iPhone 3G, Lochrane Engineering looks forward to the future and all the rich features that Apple has to offer with the iPhone.