Given its rectangular footprint and startlingly verdant, sylvan hilliness amid densely clustered tall buildings, Hangzhou’s new Canal Asian Games Ecopark invites comparison to New York City’s Central Park, especially when seen from above. But unlike Central…
Waste Water Not an Option: 5D Technology Helps EchoWater Project Save $400 Million (and a Lot of Water)
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
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…
Book Review: “How Infrastructure Works,” By Deb Chachra
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
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
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
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
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…
Getting Control of the EchoWater Project
To learn more about the 5D planning, scheduling and costing digital twin that was at the heart of the EchoWater Project and its ability to finish on time and under budget, Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure, interviewed Project…
