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Waskita Karya Designs Toll Road Network to Support Development of Indonesia’s New Smart Sustainable Capital City

December 6, 2023 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

The digital twin solution improved communication, eliminating 20,000 truck movements during initial construction, lowering diesel fuel consumption by 32,800 liters to save IDR 590 million. (Credit: PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk) Nusantara (IKN) is scheduled…

Historic Nantucket’s Sea Street Third Sewer Force Main Project

December 6, 2023 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Located about 30 miles south of Cape Cod off the coast of Massachusetts, the island of Nantucket—originally settled in 1641—is a long-time tourist…

Letters from December 2023 Issue

December 4, 2023 - in Articles, Letters

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With Modular Construction, Learn Through Creation

November 30, 2023 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

How can modular building systems change the way we think about building today? Ideas about prefabricated building systems have been in consideration for decades, and now these offsite-built solutions appear to be here to stay. Yet challenges persist in their…

Water Works: Making Stormwater Control Measures More Resilient

November 30, 2023 - in Articles, Column

Resiliency can be defined as the ability to bounce back under stress, and it’s an important topic as it relates to stormwater infrastructure. More-resilient stormwater control measures (SCMs) must be designed to meet tomorrow’s design needs. Across the…

From the Editor: We Need to Rapidly Replenish the Engineering Workforce

November 30, 2023 - in Articles, Column

In 1971, the year I was starting my career, the job market for civil engineers wasn’t very strong. I received one job offer and many letters stating the employer would keep my resume on file in case anything should turn up. Most of my colleagues from that…

Thoughts From Engineers: Gearing Up for Resilience

November 30, 2023 - in Articles, Column

The United States continues to move forward with plans to rebuild the country’s infrastructure with allocations from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Inflation Reduction Act and other sources. A critical shift also has been triggered to integrate…

Executive Corner: The Impact on Valuation of Section 174 Changes (R&D Expense Deductibility)

November 30, 2023 - in Articles, Column

Although the research and development (R&D) tax credit has existed since the 1980s, it’s only been during the last decade or so that evolution in the tax code has expanded eligibility for this credit and popularized the tax strategy among architecture,…

Transportation Troubleshooting: Coordinated and Adaptive Ramp Metering for Faster, Safer Highways

November 30, 2023 - in Articles, Column

I doubt any driver likes being held back by a traffic signal while trying to enter a highway. But from a regional traffic-management perspective, there’s a lot to like about the potential to use ramp metering to improve traffic flow along congested highway…