Living Breakwaters Support Staten Island’s Shoreline Resilience
Triton Marine Mattresses were chosen to help build a system of living breakwaters in the Raritan Bay off the coast of Staten Island. When it comes to the myriad problems resulting from climate change, it’s difficult to overstate the gravity of the problems facing coastal communities worldwide. Coastal erosion costs roughly $500 million per year for property loss in the United States. Scientists are confident sea levels will continue to rise through the end of this century and beyond. Where...
Future Forward: GIS and Cloud Computing Are Rapidly Changing Infrastructure Management
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch the full video interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3dhQJD9. Jason Griffin, P.E., leads the municipal, field services and water resources teams in OHM Advisors’ Nashville office, and Helen Scales is a senior GIS analyst at OHM Advisors. It’s no surprise that Jason Griffin and Helen Scales believe aging infrastructure is a major problem facing utiliti...
Change Leader: It’s Time to Design Infrastructure With People in Mind
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can listen to a podcast of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3QZcgyt. Tawkiyah Jordan is the senior director of housing and community strategy for Habitat for Humanity International. In her work with Habitat for Humanity, Tawkiyah Jordan has noticed that in many lower-income neighborhoods, heavy infrastructure was designed and built without the c...
Letters from October 2022 Issue
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Engineered Solutions: Septic Tanks Pose Serious Threats to Health and Quality of Life for Millions
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Transportation Troubleshooting: Helping Transportation Agencies Overcome Rising Threat of Heat Waves
When I look at the challenge of making America’s transportation infrastructure more sustainable, climate-friendly and resilient to the weather extremes becoming more problematic with climate change, I find hope in how fast the policy landscape is changing. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, exemplifies this change. Supported by more than two-thirds of the U.S. Senate, the BIL embraces sustainability, greenhouse gas mitigation and...
Thoughts From Engineers: Data for a New Era in Water Management
Engineers are trained to solve for unknowns, but we absolutely need solid facts elsewhere in the equation. Data are key, folks, and we all know our solutions are only as good as what we have to work with. The Internet of Water (IoW), a concept first articulated in 2017 (bit.ly/IOWater), tries to tackle some of these issues, recognizing that water data are more useful when brought together into one consistently formatted, widely accessible and integrated platform. Knowledge is power, as they say,...
Executive Corner: Plowing through the Economic Headwinds
Like any good New Englander, I always await the release of the Farmers’ Almanac this time of year to help plan for the upcoming winter. Based on this year’s ominous predictions from the oracles up in Lewiston, Maine, I’m considering upgrading the snowblower and buying stock in Canada Goose. According to the Farmers’ Almanac, “… This winter will be filled with plenty of shaking, shivering and shoveling.” Economic Winter Is Coming? So far, 2022 has certainly ushered in some economic headwind...
ReEngineering the Engineer: Don’t Just Say No
One of my long-time architect colleagues teaches a graduate-level architecture class at a local university. One part of their curriculum requires them to talk to their students about soils-related items in their projects. Rather than fumble through that discussion himself, my friend asked me to spend some time with his class explaining a soils report. The point wasn’t to explain the process of gathering soil samples or classifying the soils or determining the area’s geology—a geotech expert w...
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