Thoughts From Engineers: Coastal Barrier Protection Informs Adaptation Strategies
We’ve closed out 2024 with record-breaking national disasters and, as a country, we’re starting to rethink foundational paradigms and long-established policies. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a new Federal Flood Risk Management Standard, effective Sept. 4, 2024, to better reflect current and future flood risks and fortify structures accordingly. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is revising precipitation forecasts to better integrate climate-scienc...
Executive Corner: Takeaways on 2024 A/E M&A Activity: The Supercycle Era
As 2024 concluded, many A/E leaders were basking in another year of strong growth and profitability. Record performance continues to be driven by escalating backlogs of traditional infrastructure, building and environmental projects as well as in the burgeoning “innovation revolution” consisting of new data centers, renewable energy, decarbonization and climate adaptation, and high-tech manufacturing facilities, among others. Despite persistent headwinds of acute talent shortages, a two-year lac...
Transportation Troubleshooting: Igniting Change: How EV Battery Blazes Are Revolutionizing Transit Facility Design
It’s encouraging to see U.S. transit agencies accelerating their transition to zero-emission battery electric bus (BEB) fleets. But that shift brings with it a need to rethink how bus garages and transit yards are designed to withstand vehicle fires. Fortunately, electric vehicles (EVs) are no more at risk of catching fire than their internal-combustion engine counterparts. But when an EV battery does ignite, it burns hotter and longer than a traditional vehicle fire with increased explosion...
Future Forward: Engineering 2025: Navigating Change, Seizing Opportunity, and Shaping the Future
For the engineering industry, 2025 will be a year of change, some uncertainty, but mostly tremendous opportunity. All told, there has never been a better time to be an engineer or an engineering firm. Metric by metric, market by market, and sector by sector, there’s reason for excitement about the future of the industry. The ACEC Research Institute is the thought leadership center for the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), the business voice of the nation’s engineering industry...
Change Leader: Research Into Dynamic Systems Will Lead to Better Structural Designs
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/3PAMLoB. Seth Guthrie, P.E., S.E., is the director of product management of Structural Engineering Products for Bentley Systems. Geoff McDonald is the senior product manager of Offshore Structural Engineering Products for Bentley Systems. The end products of engineering typically are very easy to obs...
Location Intelligence Helps Commercial Building Developers Work Smarter, Not Harder
Developers can access maps with layers featuring key datasets such as tree overhangs (green), solar panels (purple), buildings under construction (yellow), construction sites (blue) and roofs with permanent repair (red). (Image credit: Nearmap) With the volume of development projects for new skyscrapers, stadiums, strip malls and office buildings on track to return to pre-pandemic levels, AEC firms need the proper technologies to gain efficiency and provide decision support throughout a...
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Sensitive Situation: A Near Catastrophe Leads to Engineering Innovation at West Virginia’s Largest Airport
A photo shows the Yeager Airport with an 83-foot-tall, 400-foot-long reinforced retaining wall supporting the hillside beneath the restored EMAS system The situation at West Virginia International Yeager Airport in Charleston, W.Va., has always been sensitive. Locally billed as the gateway to the world, Yeager is West Virginia’s largest airport. Covering 767 acres, the airfield sits atop Coonskin Ridge in the Allegheny Mountains, and the airport’s existence remains an engineerin...
Yadkin Water for Yadkin Needs - Securing Union County’s Water Future
A high-level overview of the Yadkin Regional Water Supply Project through south-central North Carolina. The intake and pump station are in Norwood, the water-treatment plant is near Unionville, and the drinking-water pipeline connects to Union County’s existing distribution systems in Monroe. More than 20 years ago, Union County, N.C., nestled just south of Charlotte, faced a looming challenge: how to secure a reliable water supply for its surging population. The existing system soon would...
Iconic Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Turns 60
WSP’s History with Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge In writing this article, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson interviewed via webcam Jonathan Morey, P.E., senior bridge engineer at WSP USA; and Stuart Rankin, senior vice president at WSP USA, national bridges and structures practice. To learn more about this special bridge, its famous designer and what it meant to the engineers who worked on it as well as engineering details about orthotropic deck, Vierendeel trusses and...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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