From the Editor: It’s Time To Get Back to School (And That’s a Good Thing)
This time of year always brings mixed emotions. I’m definitely a summer person and have a difficult time realizing summer is about to end. But it’s also the start of another school year, which is still an exciting time of year for me. I’m almost jealous of students everywhere as they begin another year of study and learning. So let me take a few minutes of your time to compare some campus observations now vs. what I remember as a student. The Different Now a few weeks into this fall semest...
Engineered Solutions: ARMORMAX Stabilizes Slopes in San Francisco Island Development
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Change Leader: Climate Change Necessitates ‘Safe to Fail’ Engineering
This particular webcam interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can view a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3QyEfF4. For additional related information, read "The Role of Engineering to Address Climate Change," a new report the from Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) Mikhail Chester is associate professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State Universit...
From the Editor: A Travelog from a Summer EV Road Trip
This issue of Informed Infrastructure is focused on Sustainable Engineering. As I write this column, there’s news about the U.S. Senate passing a climate, tax and healthcare package. While there are many details to be worked out, it’s encouraging that something positive is happening, in particular regarding a focus on climate change. I noted in the August 2022 issue of this column that I was planning a road trip to the East Coast in our electric vehicle (EV). I spent a lot of time planning th...
ReEngineering the Engineer: Get the Whole Job Done Right the First Time
Modeling and design software has made our design life really simple these days. The ability to add or modify loads and reconfigure framing provides a lot of flexibility in determining the best system for floors and lateral systems. However, at the end of the day, someone still has to be able to build it. BIM software has made it easy to convert 3D models into a bunch of framing plans on sheets of paper, and you can make a lot of sheets in a hurry. But that’s only part of our job. We’re still...
Executive Corner: A New Age of A/E Entrepreneurship Is Here
With industry headlines everywhere addressing severe talent shortages, rampant consolidation, record backlogs, digital transformation, inflation and private-equity involvement, one intriguing development has quietly gone under the radar. During the last five years, some of the industry’s brightest young leaders have formed a growing number of startups. And given A/E demographics, coupled with a healthy long-term infrastructure and building outlook, we believe we’re on the verge of a boom in newl...
Thoughts From Engineers: Urban Heat Islands Grab the Latest Climate Headlines
Extremely high temperatures searing U.S. and European cities in recent weeks invariably focuses the world’s attention on the “urban heat islands” that cities by and large represent. With rising temperatures of late, cities are literal hotbeds for experiencing the first-hand effects of a changing climate. According to a number of recent studies, due to a variable combination of site-specific factors—from building materials to placement of buildings and patterns of air circulation to the absenc...
Transportation Troubleshooting: Cascadia Innovation Corridor Partnership: Balancing Growth and Livability through Ground Transportation
As a resident of Olympia, Wash., I live in one of the most attractive, economically vigorous and culturally rich regions of the United States: the Cascadia Corridor. While not as fast-growing as the Texas Triangle or as large as SoCal, our Pacific Northwest megaregion possesses a dynamic knowledge economy of high-tech employers and universities, a vast land-marine border that saw $12 billion in Canada-U.S. trade in 2017, and coastal ecosystems and cultures that draw millions of tourists annually...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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