Open a planning document and you’re greeted with more than words — you’re entering a designed experience. Every margin, line, and header quietly guides how you move through the information. When design is intentional, it transforms complexity into understanding. When it’s not, even the best ideas can get lost in translation.   When you open a planning document, what do you see first? Lots of text? Dense tables? Maybe maps? What you might not  notice right away is how the desi

Remote operations separate people from the point of ignition by using distance or shielding to mitigate exposure and risk.

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Explosives Safety SMEs from The Schreifer Group are completing a major worldwide project for the US Navy. We’ve worked at more than 30...

Introduction    I couldn’t hear myself think.    As our project team wrapped up the in-brief with stakeholders at Alaska’s Joint Base...

Explosives come in various forms, most commonly referred to as Hazard Divisions (HD). What categories of explosives exist and how are...

At The Schreifer Group, we aspire to a work environment that encourages health, wellness, camaraderie – and fun! Last summer, we embarked...

How can planning and design improve military mental health?

The intent of explosives safety site planning is to increase safety in all aspects of handling and storage of energetic items. But what...

Earth Covered Magazines (ECM) are a common feature at munitions storage locations. These facilities are often categorized as “7-Bar” or...

The Schreifer Group, along with JV partner JG&A and valued subcontractor Prospect Hill Consulting, is pleased to announce that we have...

A common way of measuring required standoff from explosives is the use of “K-factors,” also known as scaled distances. You might be in a...

The Schreifer Group is pleased to announce that we were recently recognized with two awards from the American Planning Association’s...

The rise of social media has sparked a profound shift in how we interact, establish connections, and distribute information. In recent...

If you’ve been around DoD planning or commercial munitions production for very long, chances are that you’ve seen a series of earth...

When asked what I do for a living, I usually reply, “I draw circles, lots of circles.” But what are those circles? What do they mean? Why...

In the car-dependent suburb I grew up in, everything we needed on a day-to-day basis was somehow fifteen minutes’ drive from each other....

The first thing I do when setting up my workstation is to put a small potted plant on my desk. I have many conversations with that plant...

Street Tree: a tree located within the public right-of-way, typically planted between the sidewalk and the street. I always loved the...

Finding the Planning Profession Being a self-proclaimed American Planning Association (APA) Geek, I know that October is National...