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Goodbye, Flooding! Hello, Stormwater Master Plan!

July 27, 2021 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Photos show a “timeline” moving from severe flooding in Caruth Park before a new water-detention master plan was initiated, the StormTrap water-detention system being installed, and the final new field after project completion(below)   Aging infrastructure…

Municipal Sewer Cleaning: Train for Gain

July 27, 2021 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Best-practice techniques and equipment options help municipalities and contractors clean sewer, storm and sanitary lines more efficiently. For municipalities…

ReEngineering the Engineer: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore

July 26, 2021 - in Articles, Column

When I left my old firm in the early 2000s, my breadth of experience was mostly in hospitals and medical facilities—new and renovations. Having…

Advancing Composite Materials Assessments Into the 21st Century

July 23, 2021 - in Articles, Interview, Videos

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Dr. Bobbi Jo Merten, a civil engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation, via webcam.

The Future Is Robust for the Burgeoning U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Industry

July 23, 2021 - in Articles, Interview, Videos

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Jocelyn Knoll, a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney, and the chair of its Construction and Design Practice Group and co-chair of the firm’s Development and…

What Went Wrong At Surfside Collapse?

July 22, 2021 - in Articles, Interview, Videos

On July 6, 2021, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson interviewed Steven M. Baldridge, P.E., S.E., LEED AP, president of Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering (BASE), which he founded in 1995. A leading engineering firm in…

Letters from June 2021 Issue

June 4, 2021 - in Articles, Letters

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Clean Water Crisis: Solar Power Microgrids and Water Desalination Address Global Concerns

June 3, 2021 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Indirect desalination uses electricity generated by solar cells to power a membrane process. Collectively, humans are using Earth’s natural resources at a greater rate than it takes for nature to replenish them. This contention has been widely observed and…

Grand Paris Requires Grand Surveying

June 3, 2021 - in Articles, Feature, Featured

Advanced surveying solutions for tunneling and monitoring help speed construction of the largest regional transportation expansion in Europe. One of the most visited and beloved cities in the world, “The City of Light” began the Grand Paris initiative…