Executive Corner: How Private Equity Is Quietly Transforming the A/E Industry
Whether in nature, design, health or business, lasting and significant changes seldom occur quickly, but often steadily through time. You open your eyes years later to a new paradigm or landscape that has unfolded, which ultimately requires recognition and adaptation. For the A/E industry, the most-dramatic shift in ownership models is coming from a new class of outside investors: private equity. Ten years ago, the notion of a sophisticated financial coterie joining forces with creative and cere...
Infrastructure Outlook: ASCE Statement on House Passage of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Editor’s Note: The following statement was made on Nov. 5, 2021, when the infrastructure bill was passed by Congress. ASCE issued a follow-up statement (available on www.informedinfrastructure.com) on Nov. 15, 2021, when the bill was signed into law by President Biden. It is a great day for the nation as the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), fulfilling President Biden’s vision with a historic piece of legislation that will have monume...
Plotting For Growth: Geospatial Technology Boosts Efforts To Rebuild Forests And Reestablish Landscapes
Imagine planting enough new trees to cover a plot of land the size of Switzerland. Now do it again and again, nearly 500 times, until you’ve covered 2 billion hectares. It’s a huge, seemingly overwhelming effort. Yet a Dutch company is using advanced geospatial technologies to make it happen. From its base in Amsterdam, Land Life Company works to restore lands degraded by natural or human activities such as wildfire, desertification, agriculture and urbanization. It’s one of a small handf...
Reality Now: Turning Data into Actionable Information
Much industry media coverage has been given to the capabilities of current reality capture (recap) tools such as drones, mobile lidar scanners, hand-held SLAM devices and even smartphone-based capture technology. And surely most readers of this publication are at least casually familiar with recap terminology such as point cloud, photogrammetry, orthomosaic, lidar and 3D mesh. It seems nearly every AEC and Infrastructure (AEC/I) software and hardware vendor has joined the chorus extolling the...
From the Editor: Finally! An Infrastructure Bill Passes!
“It always seems impossible until it is done.” That’s the quote from Nelson Mandela the The New York Times chose for its article about the infrastructure bill. As I write this column, the long-awaited infrastructure bill is reality. I’ve been rerouting my trips on highways; waiting in lines at airports; and standing in crowded, noisy, slow-moving subways for years now. (About as long as I’ve been writing about the need for an infrastructure bill.) I’ve only had time to read highlights of t...
Thoughts From Engineers: Stepping Up Source-Water Protection
If a watershed was the subject of a play, this one could fill the house. Set in southwestern Wisconsin in a watershed known as Black Earth Creek, the plot has some interesting elements: a failing landfill; a Class 1 trout stream; development pressure from a bustling urban area nearby; and a cast of supporting characters that includes farmers, a few quirky residents, developers, local officials and more. But if you thought this play would be all downhill from here (no pun intended), you would be...
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Knock on Wood: California’s Mass Timber Regulation Changes Expand the Building Material’s Viability
A project developed by SKS Partners and designed by Perkins&Will, this 134,000-square-foot triangular building is San Francisco’s first CLT building and California’s first multi-story fully mass timber building. (Image) Recent changes to California’s mass timber regulations have expanded opportunities for building design and construction that increasingly leverage the benefits of wood. Code changes went into effect July 2021 as an early adoption of what will be in the next formal code...
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