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/40AC7mK. John Ward is chairman of the American Coal Ash Association’s Government…
Mode Shift: High-Speed Rail Readies for Arrival Across California’s Central Valley
Stretching back to 2008 when Californians voted to invest in electrified high-speed rail, the plan for CA HSR is to connect each of the state’s major…
Needing Every Last Drop: Western States Are Recycling Wastewater in a Variety of Ways
A rendering shows the interior view of the membrane treatment area at the Advanced Water Purification Facility being developed in El Paso, Texas. As water…
An Ancient Concrete Technique Could Help Save the Future
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed John Ward, chairman of the American Coal Ash Association’s Government Relations Committee and executive director of the National Coal Transportation Association, via webcam.
Infrastructure Outlook: Real-Time Continuous Condition Monitoring Drives Safety and Environmental Integrity
Companies that build, operate or service large infrastructure installations such as dams, mines and transportation facilities must monitor the conditions within—and surrounding—those installations to look for signs of possible structural degradation or…
Do More Than ‘Check a Box’ to Meet Disability Requirements
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Mark Raymond Jr., a disability advocate as well as founder and CEO of Split Second Foundation, via webcam.
The Engineering Advantages of Being a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE)
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Greg Chismark, president of WBK Engineering; and Yemi Oyewole, board member and practice manager for transportation, WBK Engineering, via webcam.
Effects of the EPA WOTUS SCOTUS Decision on Engineering
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction over “adjacent wetlands” to those having a continuous surface connection to bodies that are “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) with no clear demarcation between…
Off Rope! Drones for Bridge Inspection Increase Safety, Decrease Costs
It requires a few things for a bridge engineer to become a rope-access technician and climb up and down the most-difficult and complicated bridges: • No strong fear of heights. The photos in this article show that to be obvious. • A lot of training. Any…
AI Brings a New Era of Sustainability to Structural Engineering
Construction workers put together a truss frame designed through AI. Every year brings new technological innovation to the engineering sector. For example, the industry now is in an age in which 3D-printed structural parts and generative-design artificial…
