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February 2, 2023 in Featured , Articles , Feature

Dueling Dinosaurs: Floor Reinforcement Needed for Monumental Exhibit

Buried side by side during the Late Cretaceous period on a subtropical coastal plain in what’s now Montana, the Dueling Dinosaurs are among the most complete skeletons ever discovered of two iconic dinosaurs. Montana’s Hell Creek Formation, a barren, rocky landscape of sandstone, shale and clay, is an unforgiving land, but the area has produced some of the most important dinosaur specimens ever discovered. One of its most famous discoveries is the “Dueling Dinosaurs,” a spectacularly pr...

February 2, 2023 in Featured , Articles , Feature

New Water Resource Recovery Facility for ‘Beer City USA‘

A Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) conditioning system recovers and conditions methane to pipeline-quality natural gas used by the city of Grand Rapids’ public transportation system and the city’s natural-gas-powered vehicles. With more than 40 breweries, the city of Grand Rapids, Mich., often has been called “Beer City USA.” While that distinction put Grand Rapids on the map for locals and tourists alike, it also created a unique wastewater stream that drove the city to open a...

February 2, 2023 in Featured , Articles , Feature

Panel Highlights: Infrastructure in the Spotlight

On Nov. 7, 2022, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson moderated a panel, “Spotlight Live: Delivering on America’s Infrastructure Promise,” featured at the annual Trimble Dimensions conference in Las Vegas. The session explored methods and technologies that are transforming transportation infrastructure projects—from digital as-builts for maintaining up-to-date records of assets to collaboration methods that connect stakeholders to a single source of truth. The panelists w...

February 2, 2023 in Articles , Letters

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February 1, 2023 in Articles , Engineered Solutions

Engineered Solutions: Aerial Photogrammetry: The Key to Reducing Design Rework and Increasing Revenue

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January 31, 2023 in Articles , Column

Infrastructure Outlook: How Technology Will Ensure $1.2 Trillion Worth of Infrastructure Projects

The United States currently ranks 13th in the world in overall quality of infrastructure. However, with the recent passing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the U.S. is poised to make a historic investment in improving the nation’s infrastructure. With an injection of $1.2 trillion into the country’s infrastructure systems during the next five years, it’s critical the funding is put to work in the most-effective manner possible. One key component in establishing maximum e...

January 30, 2023 in Articles , Column

ReEngineering the Engineer: Celebrate the Clever Things

I have worked my entire career at two small firms, and I really enjoy working on a diversity of projects. My previous firm, at that time, had a relatively small band of project types it worked on. When I started out on my own in 2004, my main goal was diversity. I’d been around long enough to see other firms (engineering and architectural) get hurt by lack of diversity when certain building types went out of favor. Although diversity requires different building types and materials, there is c...