From the Editor: Smart Engineering Urgently Needed to Improve Our Infrastructure
The American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently published its “report card” for America’s infrastructure. I read through the summary, and this is what I learned: We received an overall grade of C-. That’s an improvement from D+ in 2017, but not much of an improvement, especially when the total investment gap grew to more than $2.5 trillion through the next 10 years. The United States scores mediocre at best (and we’re the ones doing the scoring). Of the 17 categories graded, the best...
Change Leader: Smart Engineering and Infrastructure Funding Desperately Needed
These profiles are based on interviews, and the opinions and statements are those of the subject and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by this publication. Barry B. LePatner is the author of Too Big to Fall: America’s Failing Infrastructure and the Way Forward. He is founder of the New York City-based law firm LePatner & Associates LLP; and for more than three decades has been prominent as an advisor on business and legal issues affecting the real estate, design and constru...
Thoughts From Engineers: All Sensors (and Eyes) on the Water
The city of Virginia Beach, Va., was recognized in November 2020 with a Digital Cities award for the municipality’s adoption of StormSense, a multi-award-winning initiative that harnesses data streamed from a network of smart sensors and uses the resulting analytics in city-specific applications. Stationed along waterways and bridges, these Internet of Things (IoT) sensors analyze rain, storm and tidal data in real-time for purposes of hydrodynamic model development, forecasting, city resilience...
GIS Solutions: A Flying Start for Data Integration
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Engineered Solutions: Enabling an Increasingly Mobile Workforce
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Engineered Solutions: Two Decades of Resilient Flood Mitigation
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ReEngineering the Engineer: Fostering Personal and Corporate ‘Sustainability’
When I started my firm in 2004, I had a decent idea of the corporate inner workings. I had been a partner at my previous firm for more than 15 years, but I had not started a company from scratch. Dealing with the engineering registrations was an obvious first task, but I also needed to set up a company and, most of all, a bank account. The logical first choice for banking was to approach the bank I had been using for my personal account. After all, I had been a customer there for 20-plus year...
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Video Interviews: 2021 IECA Award Winners
The International Erosion Control Association (IECA) announced winners or a variety of awards during the virtual IECA Annual Conference and Expo held in February 2021. The IECA awards program recognizes outstanding achievements in the erosion and sediment control and stormwater industries. This year’s awards recognized young professionals under 30 and under 40, sustained partners, outstanding professional, sustained contributor and the environmental excellence award. Todd Danielson, the ed...
Dream Team Turns Challenges into Assets at 110 N. Wacker Drive
Image Credit: Ulivieri Stainless-steel panels originally part of the Morton Salt Headquarters (top) were installed at the lower level of the new building (bottom).Goettsch Partners When the development team of Riverside Investment and Development (Riverside) and the Howard Hughes Corporation made the decision to build a trophy-class skyscraper on 110 N. Wacker Drive in Chicago, they knew they would face several challenges. They also knew just the team who could sol...
Video: New Roundabout Under Construction at McIver and Old Florence Roads in Darlington County
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