Executive Corner: 2021 Mid-Year Executive Outlook
As the disruption and severity of the global pandemic continues to fade, A/E leaders across the country are ready to take on the challenges and opportunities left in its wake. I recently connected with several CEOs from coast to coast for our annual Mid-Year Outlook to glean insights as to what they’re facing today. I asked how they’re handling office-reopening efforts, which client and business opportunities are emerging, how the pandemic shaped them as leaders, and what their plans are for the...
Sustainability in the Solar Industry
Figure 1. Projected growth of various fuels. By Chris Kline and Dan Salas Utility-scale solar power in the United States is projected to continue growing for the next several decades in support of national energy goals. The primary purpose of utility-scale solar is to produce safe electricity at scale while reducing greenhouse-gas emissions as compared to emissions from fossil-fuel-powered facilities that solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is replacing. However, solar PV growth is c...
Managing Water Assets with Reality-Capture Technologies
Maintaining water and wastewater infrastructure often is challenging. Water facilities rely on large, often-complicated networks of piping, steel structures, equipment and tanks that aren’t always easily accessible. These elements often are located in areas difficult to reach, and therefore it can be difficult to confirm measurements and verify accuracies of existing drawings. They also can be located underground and behind facility walls, and it can be difficult to create maintenance schedules...
Return to Glory: Notre Dame’s Restoration Is On Track
Interior bracing was installed during the safety phase to stabilize stone arches. Notre Dame de Paris is not the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, or in France. It’s not even the largest cathedral named for “Our Lady” in France; Notre Dame de Amiens, Notre Dame de Chartres and Notre Dame de Reims are all larger and considered (by many) to be finer examples of Gothic architecture. And, to continue running down this UNESCO World Heritage Site for one more sentence, it’s not the olde...
Lessons Learned from Campus RainWorks 2020 Winners
The University of Pennsylvania redesigned a K-8 campus in West Philadelphia with green infrastructure, raised garden beds and a food forest. At college and university campuses throughout the United States, students compete in the Campus RainWorks Challenge, an annual green infrastructure design challenge from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create innovative stormwater management techniques. In so doing, the challenge engages the next generation of environmental profession...
Adapting to Climate Change
New York City projects protect against rising tides and ensure long-term usability. On Aug. 9, 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the first part of its much-anticipated “Sixth Assessment Report” (www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1), which reinforced the fact that sea-level rise is leading to substantial impacts on coastal communities, including a near-doubling in the frequency of coastal flooding since the 1960s in many sites around the world. The report confirmed...
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Thoughts From Engineers: Microplastics: An Unavoidable Reality of Modern Life?
There’s nothing like the widespread use of plastic by all—and for nearly all purposes—to thwart any ambitions we may have as a society to live more sustainably. Plastic is indisputably fundamental to the world’s economy. The material’s strength, flexibility and durability make it indispensable in virtually all fields, from the delivery of vaccines to the manufacture of auto parts and ordinary household gadgets. But after the object’s useful life is over, the plastic invariably lives on, often...
The Future of Heat Transfer May Lie Underground
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Charlie Copeland, the president and CEO of Goldman Copeland, via webcam.
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