#558: PRO TALK With Civil Engineer Zachary Kuegler
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.6 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Patrick talks to Zachary Kuegler, an expert in water supply and distribution, about updating municipal water systems, the bad things that can be in your water, and what it takes to be a civil engineer.
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| 0:00.0 | You also hear from operators just in the past 20 years where they'll have a main break |
| 0:10.5 | and you know they'll dig it up and they'll find either an old piece of wooden water |
| 0:14.7 | main next to the newer pipe or kind of lure of just short sections of wooden pipe |
| 0:20.2 | that's still in service today. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry professionals. |
| 0:30.6 | This is Senior Editor Patrick McCombone. Today I'm joined by engineer Zachary Kubler. |
| 0:34.6 | You can find the Fine Homebuilding Pro Talk podcast and the original |
| 0:38.0 | Fine Homebuilding podcast at Fine Homebuilding.com slash podcast. You can leave feedback and ask questions |
| 0:43.6 | there too. Zach, it's a pleasure to have you on the show. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:47.9 | Thanks for having me. You know, I was reminded today of reading the intro to the show. I might |
| 0:52.7 | have to change it because you're not really affiliated with the home building industry somewhat related. But can you tell us what you do and how you came to do that work? |
| 1:03.1 | Sure. Absolutely. So I'm a civil engineer. I went to school for civil engineering. I focus in doing engineering for water utilities here in the state of Connecticut. |
| 1:15.4 | Kind of interesting how I got into it. |
| 1:17.5 | I was always hands-on growing up as a kid. |
| 1:20.3 | Didn't really know what I wanted to do, but was pretty good at science and math and school. |
| 1:24.8 | And one day I was trying to look at schools. My mom came |
| 1:28.6 | home from work and said, you know, I think you should be a civil engineer. So I looked into it. |
| 1:33.1 | It sounded good, you know, signed up for school in it and turned out to be a great profession for me. |
| 1:39.0 | It's a great mix of kind of the building concepts that we see here on the podcast. And I like to do on my home here and kind of the building concepts that we see around the podcast and I like to do on my home here |
| 1:45.5 | and kind of the engineering mind that I have as well. |
| 1:50.8 | We were talking ahead of the show. I observed that you had what looked like craft-faced |
| 1:55.0 | insulation behind you. You're currently remodeling a house you were telling me. |
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