Speaker
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Brian Bresler PEAssociate | Freese and Nichols, Inc.Brian Bresler, P.E. joined FNI in the Corpus Christi office in June 2007 as a project engineer. Brian has been managing projects for FNI since 2008, and Brian became an FNI Associate in 2022. During his time at FNI, Brian has been the engineer of record for over $150M in assets owned and managed by various municipalities, counties, Ports, and other entities throughout the state. For three years, Brian was a program manager for engineering projects for departments including Solid Waste, Corpus Christi International Airport, and Parks and Recreation for the City of Corpus in their Engineering Services Department as a staff augment to the City three days a week, and while continuing to manage and design transportation, utilities, port, and water resources projects seven days a week for FNI. Brian’s technical expertise includes water and wastewater utilities design, street and storm drainage design, cargo yards and other port facilities design, rail track design and permitting, environmental and other permitting (USACE/TxDOT/TGLO/TDLR/TCEQ/other), subsurface utility engineering, construction cost estimating, contract document preparation, construction phase services, CIP programming, water planning, project funding, and public outreach. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Government from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. He earned his State of Texas Secondary Teacher Certification in 1994 from Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University – Kingsville, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2007.
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Sep 17 2026
- Time: 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
A Fancy Pile of Rocks: A Framework for Holistic Thinking about Pavement for Non-Technical Owners and New Engineers
Pavement structural strength is a sum of its various parts, not all of which are easily understood. As with all civil engineering, the structure is only as good as the weakest component, not least of which is the ground it stands on. Because ‘natural ground’ upon which structures are founded is described in geotechnical reports through a series of tests and parameters, and because paving solutions are explained in an array of choices based on various inputs, many parts of the narrative can seem mysterious and opaque to the non-technical or newly technical. ‘A Fancy Pile of Rocks’ is a framework for thinking about pavement and understanding some of the choices that are inevitably made during the planning, design, award, construction, and maintenance phases, so that the attendee is conversant in the terminology of the trade, and aware of the implications of decision making on the resiliency and serviceability of the owner’s roadway.
