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How To Invest Best in Bridge and Road Infrastructure
Autonomous flying laser scanners capture structures and environments to create 3D point clouds while flying, allowing for the scanning of hard-to-reach places while offering a lightweight, easy-to-use experience. The Leica BLK2FLY uses omnidirectional radar and LiDAR to avoid obstacles for accurate, uninterrupted and safe scanning. The March 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after a cargo ship crashed into it might be a turning point in how the country looks at its infrastruc...
Future Forward (Powered by ACEC): Workforce Shortage: It’s Not a Mystery—It’s Math
In a time when attention is pulled in many directions, one critical issue often goes under the radar. Talk to colleagues across sectors, and you’ll hear a consistent message: the skilled workforce is shrinking, the pipeline is tightening and the impact is already showing up in our economy. As director of workforce development with the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), I hear every day from our firm and industry leaders who are sounding the workforce-shortage alarm with increasing...
Change Leader: TYLin Engineer Walks Through Modern Bridge-Inspection Process
This interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can listen to the full interview embedded above or by visiting https://iimag.link/NjAGM. Atiq Alvi is vice president, national lead for bridge rehabilitation, Florida bridge sector manager, TYLin, a part of Sidara’s global collaborative. A True Expert With 34 years of professional experience in bridge engineering, with the last 15 years at world-renowned bridge-engineering specialists TYLin, Ati...
Infrastructure Outlook: Wastewater Treatment Technologies Transforming Water Management
Industrial wastewater treatment is more important than ever. Stricter environmental rules and the push to save water are driving industries to upgrade their treatment methods. This column looks at the latest equipment reshaping how factories clean and manage wastewater, helping them meet regulations while cutting waste and costs. You’ll learn about the tools making a real difference in keeping water safe and industries running smoothly. The global industrial wastewater treatment equipment market...
Executive Corner: 2025 A/E M&A Year in Review
As we prepare to formally wrap up 2025, the big-picture story for the A/E industry largely remains the same. Firms across every discipline, size and geography are churning out yet another strong year of growth, revenue, profitability and backlog. In fact, leaders largely shrugged off the tax, tariff and policy reverberations and instead focused on an emerging 21st-century capex-driven design and construction landscape of AI-led data centers, energy infrastructure and manufacturing hubs. Organiza...
Thoughts From Engineers: Projects and Partnerships that Inspire
In 2012, I visited the construction site of Deep Space, one of the largest underground auditoriums in the world. It was the latest project at the 1,100-acre “Intergalactic Headquarters” of Epic Systems, a medical software company in Verona, Wis., just outside Madison, Wis. The auditorium spans 1.2 million square feet and seats up to 11,400 people. With three massive LED screens—including one that stands 68 feet tall—the space generates significant heat during events. To maintain comfortable temp...
Transportation Troubleshooting: Game Changer: How Cities Rise to the Challenge of Large Events
When a major event comes to town, it’s not just about the game, concert or convention—it’s about moving thousands of people safely and efficiently while keeping everyday life on track. For cities and transit agencies, these moments are high-stakes tests of planning, coordination and creativity. Los Angeles is preparing for an unprecedented run of global events: the 2026 FIFA World Cup, 2027 Super Bowl and 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Beyond adding thousands of buses to its fleet, Los Angel...
Engineering The Future: Choose the ‘Yes, And’ Rather Than the ‘No, But’ Category
As we start a new year, we’re filled with hope and the promise of change. Our firms, agencies, universities and organizations look at our mission, vision and strategic plans to measure how we did in 2025 as well as what adjustments we need to make to ready for the future. In previous columns, I’ve discussed streamlining permitting and delivery, the reality of the workforce shortages that will get worse during the next decade, and the growing needs of U.S. infrastructure. With a $3.7 trillion bac...
From the Editor: Are We Looking in the Right Places To Lower Construction Costs?
At Valparaiso University, our senior civil and environmental engineering students work together in teams on projects that involve structural, transportation, water resources and environmental engineering disciplines. Each team has a representative from each discipline. The first semester takes them through the proposal stage, some preliminary design and evaluation of alternatives. At the end of the semester, each team must come up with a cost estimate for their project based on general square fo...
Podcast with JMT Vice Presidents Nick DiPaolo and Nate Reck
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed JMT's Nick DiPaolo, Vice President, Digital Transformation, and Nate Reck, Vice President, GIS and Asset Management. They note the importance of defining the problem to solve first, and then see which technologies may be a good fit for that use case, rather than starting with a particular technology and trying to force it into a client's application. The discussion also unveils an important three-step progression from "pro...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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June Issue 2026
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