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ReEngineering the Engineer: Seeking ‘Five Reasons’ for Problems

April 28, 2022 - in Articles, Column

One of our integrated project delivery (IPD) projects finished at the end of 2021. It survived a COVID-19 shutdown, reduced productivity due to restrictions of personnel onsite, cost increases and material-procurement challenges. Everyone was looking…

High-Strength Steel Takes Salesforce Tower Chicago to New Heights

April 28, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Salesforce Tower Chicago anchors Wolf Point, a mixed-use development at the confluence of the Chicago River’s three branches. (Steelblue) The Chicago…

Help Wanted: Smart People; Transportation Industry Addresses Workforce Expansion and Diversification

April 28, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Bentley Education partners with the National Society of Black Engineers to engage with talented engineering students. The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure…

New Wittpenn Bridge Demonstrates the Criticality of Inspection

April 28, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

An estimated 178 million trips are taken across the nation’s more than 617,000 bridges, but approximately 7.5 percent of the nation’s bridges are considered structurally deficient, and 42 percent of all bridges are at least 50 years old. Considering recent…

Getting Geotechnical: The Making, Shaking and Remaking of San Francisco’s Treasure Island

April 28, 2022 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Treasure Island is a 400-acre artificial island in San Francisco Bay. San Francisco Bay’s Treasure Island—a flat, 400-acre, rather headstone-shaped island—is entirely artificial, “… constructed by emplacing 260,000 tons of quarried rock in the shoals…

Future Forward: Engineers Are Going To Be Busy for a Long Time

April 28, 2022 - in Articles, Profile

This particular webcam interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can view a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/35UCpNl . These profiles are based on interviews, and…

Executive Corner: A Peek Inside the Latest Data-Valuation Trends

April 28, 2022 - in Articles, Column

The latest valuation statistics from the recently released “A/E Business Valuation and M&A Transactions Study” reveals some interesting trends, including significantly higher valuation multiples for larger firms and higher equity values across the…

Thoughts From Engineers: On Shaky Ground: The Effect of Human Activity on Drinking Water

April 28, 2022 - in Articles, Column

The results of a study examining the relationship between land use and perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS) contamination were published in the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology in February 2022 (bit.ly/PFAS2022).…

Engineers Are Going To Be Busy for a Long Time

April 8, 2022 - in Interview, Multimedia, Videos

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Jay Rhame, the CEO of Reaves, an asset manager focused on utilities, infrastructure and renewable energy, via webcam.