Supercomputing that Supports Infrastructure
Argonne National Laboratories Makes Climate Modeling Practical for Regional Infrastructure Asset Management Argonne National Laboratory, located in Lemont, Ill. (just outside Chicago), has some of the trappings of an outstanding Bond villain lair, including its own 0.7-mile-circumference electron storage ring (a bit like a CERN-style particle accelerator); the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS), which is the “first superconducting linear accelerator for heavy ions at en...
Project Management Insights: Project Management or Else
A contact of mine was considering an administrative assistant position with an engineering firm this summer and wanted my opinion on the job description. She isn’t an engineer but has served in several marketing and support roles throughout her career. The list of responsibilities was typical: some marketing coordination, time at the reception desk, assisting HR, and other assorted generalist duties. The firm was expanding to the city where she lived, and she was looking for a new opportunity....
Executive Corner: Is Your Company’s Stock a Good Investment?
"The best investment I ever made!” I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard owners in the architecture, engineering and environmental consulting industries say something to this effect when I’ve asked about the performance of their company stock. There are exceptions, of course, but this is by far the more-common refrain. Yet many firms struggle with their ownership transition plans due to a lack of demand for stock among their next generation of leaders. Competing Capital When a company...
Thoughts From Engineers: Water Scarcity is Common: The Grim Reality of Freshwater Supplies Worldwide
Most news headlines barely get my attention, but it was startling to come across a list of 11 cities projected to experience serious water shortages within the next 50 years due to a combination of polluted and diminishing water supplies, climate change and population growth (bbc.in/2Mj16HR). Some of the major urban centers at risk for severe water shortages won’t surprise you; others surely will. The mix of cities with looming water shortages include Beijing, Cairo, Cape Town, Tokyo, London, Mi...
‘Science Gateway’ Emerges from Former Naval Compound
Maryland’s Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center opened in August 2019. The hospital cost $400 million and will include 180 private patient rooms. Image Courtesy of Adventist HealthCare A new hospital in Maryland’s Montgomery County is part of a master plan to rejuvenate a long-neglected neighborhood. When the Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center opened in Maryland in August 2019, it became the newest addition in the development of a parcel that has arisen from the...
Change Leader: Use Familiar Tools to Achieve Public Support
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. The video discussed in this interview can be viewed at wp.me/p8dJln-bXo Doug Taylor is vice president and transportation practice leader for Stewart, an engineering, design and planning firm located in Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte and Wilmington, N.C.; and Columbia, S.C. A successful project requires much m...
Change Leader Full Interview: Use Familiar Tools to Achieve Public Support
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. Doug Taylor is the vice president and transportation practice leader for Stewart, an engineering, design and planning firm located in Raleigh, Durham and Charlotte, N.C. V1 Media: Can you describe your education and career before Stewart Engineering? Taylor: In 1983, I graduated from Asheville–Buncombe Technical College with...
From the Editor: It’s Time to Think About More Than Financial Costs
As I scanned the Table of Contents for this October 2019 issue of Informed Infrastructure, I noticed the article title “Brick Sewer Rehabilitation in Nation’s Capital.” My first thought was that it didn’t read “Brick Sewer Replacement.” I’m sure that cost was a major (and perhaps only) factor in the decision to rehabilitate rather than replace. But I also thought that we’ve approached the time when cost should only be one of many factors in such decisions. As we continue to engineer our way i...
Future Forward: Harnessing Ocean Waves to Add Another Piece to the Renewable Energy Equation
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. Christopher Ridgewell is the CEO at AW-Energy, a Finnish company developing the patented WaveRoller concept and product design to utilize ocean wave energy. After working in marine technologies for nearly 30 years, Ridgewell was exposed to the potential of WaveRoller technology, and he was hooked. “Wave energy has always been the ‘...
Future Forward Full Interview: Harnessing Ocean Waves to Add Another Piece to the Renewable Energy Equation
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. Christopher Ridgewell is the CEO at AW-Energy, a Finnish company developing the patented WaveRoller concept and product design to utilize ocean wave energy. V1 Media: Can you describe your education and career before AW-Energy? Ridgewell: I studied Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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