Bringing Harmony to Bustling Hangzhou: Archi-Tectonics Creates New Natural Landscape for 2023 Asian Games
Given its rectangular footprint and startlingly verdant, sylvan hilliness amid densely clustered tall buildings, Hangzhou’s new Canal Asian Games Ecopark invites comparison to New York City’s Central Park, especially when seen from above. But unlike Central Park, everything on view in the 116-acre (47-hectare) Ecopark—every building, tree, slope, hill and waterway—is brand new, or at least in a brand-new location. Development of the park began in summer 2018 with three months of excavation an...
Waste Water Not an Option: 5D Technology Helps EchoWater Project Save $400 Million (and a Lot of Water)
Getting Control of the Project To learn more about the 5D planning, scheduling and costing digital twin that was at the heart of the EchoWater Project and its ability to finish on time and under budget, I interviewed Project Controls Cubed’s Jeff Campbell, director of virtual planning, and Serelle Corn, lead planner and managing member. Some excerpts from that interview made it into this article, but you can watch the full video interview above or at bit.ly/3Pc4LWB. In...
Thoughts From Engineers: Designing for the Next Storm
Civil engineers use a range of hydrologic methodologies and software—from the widely used Rational Method to U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s HEC-HMS to the Environmental Protection Agency’s SWMM and countless others—to model the flow of surface runoff and design stormwater management systems suited to a specific level of acceptable flood risk. So long as rainfall patterns remained consistent with historical Intensity Duration Frequency (IDF) curves, our models—and the resulting infrastructure—held...
Book Review: “How Infrastructure Works,” By Deb Chachra
Reviewed by Angus Stocking A much longer and more detailed review can be found online at bit.ly/3ThIJmM or by scanning the accompanying QR code. Deb Chachra’s “How Infrastructure Works” is a bestseller released to wide acclaim in late 2023. Adulation by the literary class isn’t necessarily a strong recommendation for infrastructure professionals, but on reading Chachra’s book, I find it’s indeed an information-rich and important contribution to infrastructural theory. And as...
Engineered Solutions: Planning for CAD Success in Four Phases
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Engineering The Future: The Future Starts Now
Maria Lehman will be writing a regular column for Informed Infrastructure, starting with this April 2024 issue. Shortly after becoming ASCE president, she was interviewed for an April 2022 cover feature: bit.ly/3IkrT1a. “Engineering” and “passion” are two words rarely seen together, so when they are used collectively, you can’t help but pay attention. I have an incredible passion for engineering and how it creates the foundation for a healthy, prosperous and resilient future. I’m very t...
National Climate Policy Aimed at Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gases Also Would Improve Water Quality
A climate policy that raises the price of carbon-intensive products across the entire U.S. economy would yield a side benefit of reducing nitrate groundwater contamination throughout the Mississippi River Basin. The Gulf of Mexico, an important U.S. fishery, also would see modest benefits from the nitrate reductions. These were among the conclusions of a recent study, “U.S. Climate Policy Yields Water Quality Cobenefits in the Mississippi Basin and Gulf of Mexico,” published in the Proceeding...
The Edge of Innovation: Geospatial Intelligence Reduces Need for Inference
A digital dig board is a vital resource on an active jobsite where many trades are coming and going on busy schedules. Brasfield & Gorrie can provide all site personnel with immediate access to the in-ground utility locations with touchscreen ease. (Brasfield & Gorrie) As the fundamental thread in a fabric of human cohesion, infrastructure in each of its many forms is as much an organism as it is a collection of systems. Organism or entity, in either case, change is inevitabl...
Transforming Empty Offices into Homes
Converting empty offices to housing isn’t a new concept. As shown here, 2040 Market, the five-story concrete former headquarters for the American Automobile Association in Philadelphia, was turned into a mixed-use residential building in 2013. But renewed interest in such conversions is allowing cities to leverage existing buildings and transform them to meet today’s housing needs without having to demolish and rebuild from scratch. Cities nationwide are exploring adaptive re...
GIS Solutions: Digital Innovation: HNTB’s Reality Mapping Evolution
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