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Future Forward: One Water: A Connected, Global System Requires Site-Specific Engineering

April 8, 2024 - in Articles, Profile

This interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3Pf40vR. Stacy Hutchinson, PhD, is the associate dean of research and graduate programs…

Bringing Harmony to Bustling Hangzhou: Archi-Tectonics Creates New Natural Landscape for 2023 Asian Games

April 8, 2024 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Given its rectangular footprint and startlingly verdant, sylvan hilliness amid densely clustered tall buildings, Hangzhou’s new Canal Asian Games Ecopark…

Waste Water Not an Option: 5D Technology Helps EchoWater Project Save $400 Million (and a Lot of Water)

April 8, 2024 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

  Getting Control of the Project To learn more about the 5D planning, scheduling and costing digital twin that was at the heart of the EchoWater…

Thoughts From Engineers: Designing for the Next Storm

April 5, 2024 - in Articles, Column

Civil engineers use a range of hydrologic methodologies and software—from the widely used Rational Method to U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s HEC-HMS to the Environmental Protection Agency’s SWMM and countless others—to model the flow of surface runoff…

Book Review: “How Infrastructure Works,” By Deb Chachra

April 5, 2024 - in Articles, Profile

Reviewed by Angus Stocking A much longer and more detailed review can be found online at bit.ly/3ThIJmM or by scanning the accompanying QR code. Deb Chachra’s “How Infrastructure Works” is a bestseller released to wide acclaim in late 2023.…

Engineering The Future: The Future Starts Now

March 29, 2024 - in Articles, Column

Maria Lehman will be writing a regular column for Informed Infrastructure, starting with this April 2024 issue. Shortly after becoming ASCE president, she was interviewed for an April 2022 cover feature: bit.ly/3IkrT1a. “Engineering” and “passion”…

Enriching Geotechnical Models via Real-time Sensor Data Analysis

March 16, 2024 - in Interview, Multimedia, Videos

To learn more about the work of Cristian de Santos and SAALG Geomechanics, as well as the growing role of IoT sensors in geotechnical analysis, Todd Danielson, editorial director of Informed Infrastructure, interviewed de Santos and PDH author Alan Jones,…

Book Review: “How Infrastructure Works,” By Deb Chachra

March 15, 2024 - in Profile

Reviewed by Angus Stocking As a land surveyor for 15 years and then an infrastructure writer for 22 years, I have understandably acquired hundreds of books relating to infrastructure. Sometimes purchased for professional reasons, sometimes as gifts from well-meaning…

One Water: A Connected, Global System Requires Site-Specific Engineering

March 13, 2024 - in Interview, Multimedia, Videos

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Stacy Hutchinson, PhD, the associate dean of research and graduate programs in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State as well as chair of the standing council of the…