When 4D Modeling Stops Working: A Focused Approach for Road Infrastructure Projects
Guyana, a small nation on the northern coast of South America, is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. According to the International Monetary Fund, Guyana recorded the highest real GDP growth rate in the world, averaging 47 percent per year between 2022 and 2024, driven by a significant oil boom that triggered an unprecedented wave of infrastructure investment. Roads, highways and civil works are being developed at a pace that demands speed and smarter construction methodologies....
When the Lights Stay On: Resilience for an Aging Grid
Resilience isn’t new, and the work has always looked similar. When electrons stop flowing, utilities work quickly to get the power back up and running as well as keep the problem from spreading. But the conditions around the system aren’t the same as they were 15 years ago. Much of the U.S. grid was designed around a 20- to 25-year life, with a lot of it still in service beyond that window. This wasn’t careless engineering; it was economics. Utilities built what their communities were willing to...
Pennsylvania’s Hawk Falls Bridge: Beautiful, Suited to Purpose and Built to Last
Two halves of the first completely assembled arch about to joined at the large-diameter ASTM A709 50CR hinge pin. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PA Turnpike) initiated the Hawk Falls Bridge Replacement to resolve serious deficiencies in a 1950s continuous deck truss—limited lane widths and shoulders, extensive deterioration and an end-of-life structure spanning a deep gorge within a heavily used state park. “The Hawk Falls Bridge Project is critical to enhancing safety and mobility along...
Dam Infrastructure Faces Off With Climate Change and Limited Funding
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, Water Resources Division The Tobacco River was diverted when the Edenville Dam spillway liquified and breached in 2020. The collapsed M-30 bridge is visible in the distance in the wider view. On May 19, 2020, a sandy section of the Edenville Dam in Edenville, Mich., underwent liquefaction following heavy rains, allowing the previously impounded Wixom Lake to breach the dam. The failure released a flood that then overtopped the downstrea...
Future Forward Powered by ACEC: The Grid Can’t Wait for Washington to Figure This Out
Powered By: There’s a version of the AI story that gets told almost exclusively in the language of software, through terms such as models, agents, tokens and parameters. It’s a compelling narrative, but it’s also incomplete. Behind every large language model or newly built data-center campus, there’s an infrastructure question that’s considerably harder to answer than the technology question: Where does the power come from? How does it get there? Who pays for what it takes to deliver it? These a...
Change Leader: Connecting Bikes and Transit Through Spatial Relationships
Johnny McGlone is the GIS Manager, Digital Solutions, STV This interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch the full interview above or by visiting iimag.link/FEPOM. Johnny McGlone has spent his career finding new ways to apply GIS across industries. At STV, a North American infrastructure-focused professional services firm, that means working at the intersection of data, infrastructure and mobility—often bringing together teams that...
Water Works: Go Big! A Case for Regional Stormwater Facilities to Address Existing Development
After what seemed like an eternity, the street redevelopment in front of my beloved downtown coffee shop is finally complete. It’s almost eerily quiet now that the fleet of excavators, dump trucks and compactors has moved on—most people would’ve simply gone elsewhere for their morning caffeine hit while the chaos was in full swing. As a true stormwater nerd, however, I dutifully braved the noise and dust to observe the refurbishment of the storm sewer, including the addition of small-media filte...
Code Update: ACI CODE-318-25: Updates You Need to Know
ANDREW TAYLOR, PHD, S.E., FACI GREG ZEISLER The American Concrete Institute (ACI) recently published the 2025 edition of ACI CODE-318, “Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete—Code and Commentary.” This latest version includes numerous changes, such as refinement of the one-way shear provisions introduced in ACI CODE-318-19, alignment with other ACI codes (e.g., ACI/PCI CODE-319-25, ACI/PTI CODE-320-25, ACI CODE-440.11-25), coordination with ASCE/SEI 7-22, and improved and clarified c...
Executive Corner: What the Tea Leaves Tell Us About the A/E Industry Outlook
With geopolitical instability, persistently high interest rates, tariffs and rising energy costs, the A/E industry, along with the overall U.S. economy, is certainly facing some significant headwinds. And yet, A/E industry results in 2025 generally were very strong, and year-end backlogs, along with business leaders’ sentiment, seem to point to continued growth in 2026. Poll Results We recently conducted an informal poll of client firms, including participants in our annual “A/E Business Valuati...
Thoughts From Engineers: Synthetic Storms for Flood-Risk Assessment
Important national efforts are underway to better prepare for the elevated flood risk strongly linked to a nonstationary climate. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, for example, is developing a new Atlas 15 to be better aligned with current and future flood risk. In addition, Stochastic Storm Transposition (SST) has emerged as a tool with the potential to help identify and assess flood risk under extreme conditions. The methodology uses high-resolution gridded radar data of recent stor...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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June Issue 2026
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