Pigs in the Water? Houston’s Largest Surface-Water Project Brings Engineering Value and Confidence
By Josh Tebbe and Wayne Biery The Greater Houston region’s reliance on groundwater created the nation’s largest areas of ground subsidence and placed the metro area on a path toward a potential water shortage as its population grows. Recognizing these issues, district officials established the Surface Water Supply Project and required Harris and Fort Bend counties to convert from using groundwater to surface-water sources such as lakes and rivers. The goal of the initiative is to have...
Engineered Solutions: Remote Design Collaboration as the New Norm
Sponsored By: How Design Teams of All Sizes Are Remaining Connected and Keeping Productive By James Kelly Facing the New Industry Challenges in this New Normal During the last few months, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted business across numerous industries and caused firms to reevaluate and adjust their practices to keep up. In the AEC industry, this situation has accelerated an existing, growing trend toward remote design collaboratio...
Change Leader: Designing Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Requires Coordination
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. Justin Merkel, P.E., is a senior distribution engineer in HDR’s Missoula office. Transportation departments worldwide are transitioning (or at least looking into) fleets to all-electric systems. However, this involves a lot more than buying new vehicles and accepting the charge they provide. There are many infrastruct...
Code Update: CJP HSS Welds: Be Informed Before You Specify
Weld design isn’t exempt from the numerous differences between wide-flange (WF) and hollow structural section (HSS) connection design. Unlike open sections where welding is possible on both sides of the flanges and web, the interior of HSS sections commonly used in building structures can’t be accessed. Complete joint penetration (CJP) welds are unquestionably the least-preferred weld type from a fabrication and cost point of view. Unfortunately, they tend to be a frequently specified weld fo...
Engineered Solutions: BIM Methodology Helps Design the World’s Longest Double-Decker Bridge, Saving Time and Costs
OpenRoads helped WIKA review the alignment of the main road, ramps and approaching structures. Sponsored by: Connecting a Patchwork of Highways When PT. Wijaya Karya (WIKA), an Indonesia-based company that provides construction, mechanical and electrical services to the civil construction industry, was contracted to design the Design and Build Harbour Road 2 Project in North Jakarta, Indonesia, budgeted at USD $530 million, the project team quickly realized...
Executive Corner: Growth 2.0: The A/E Industry Reflects and Restarts
It’s been approximately 100 days since the United States joined nations around the world in an unprecedented series of events to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Societal norms and business practices were overturned almost instantaneously, while slogans such as “flatten the curve,” “social distancing” and “shelter in place” became part of the national conversation. The A/E community was no different, mobilizing workforces and operations at lightning speed as well as undertaking a “hunker dow...
Future Forward: Most People Want to Help You
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. Erin Rothman is the founder of StormSensor and an environmental consultant. She didn’t invent the technique, but Rothman is finding success launching and building a new infrastructure sensor company, StormSensor, via a commitment to a simple concept: asking for help. An extremely shy person by nature, she has stead...
Future Forward Full Interview: Most People Want to Help You
Erin Rothman is the founder of StormSensor and a former environmental consultant. V1 Media: Please provide a brief background of your education and career before StormSensor. Rothman: I received my undergraduate degree at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in environmental science, and technical and scientific communication. I received my master’s degree in natural resources and wetland ecology at The Ohio State University, and then I spent about 15 years as an environmental consultant....
BIM Methodology Helps Design the World’s Longest Double-Decker Bridge, Saving Time and Costs
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Central Park Tower Pushes the Limits of Skyscraper Design
New York City’s Central Park Tower, the tallest residential building in the world, reflects state-of-the-art engineering techniques and environmentally conscious construction. For more than a century, New Yorkers have found space by building upward. Now Central Park Tower, a new sky-piercing megastructure soaring 1,550 feet above Manhattan, is the latest in a series of super-slender residential towers to appear on the New York City skyline, as developers seek to drive value from sma...
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