One River North: A Unique Engineering Challenge in Pursuit of the Best Building Possible
Unmistakable for the living fissure within, One River North dazzles as a vibrant exploration of the possibilities that exist at the intersection of nature and time. Designed by MAD Architects with support from Davis Partnership, residents will enjoy more than 13,000 square feet of open-air amenity space carving a canyon through the westward façade. Art, science, mental amusement or proof positive—in architectural engineering, math isn’t the only thing, it’s everything. Such is the...
Free the Fish: New Culverts Open the Pepin Creek Fish Passage
An aerial view of the installation site for Pepin Creek Fish Passage in Bellingham, Wash. In March 2013, the U.S. District Court in Washington state ruled in favor of 21 Native American tribes and required the state to significantly increase the existing effort to remove all state-owned culverts that blocked salmon and steelhead migrations by 2030. Washington state’s mandate: replace the old structures with a larger solution that supported the native stream beds, including using rock an...
Hardware Update: The Evolution of Construction Cameras
By consistently measuring site activity over time, industry professionals have access to insights that will inform future planning. By Chandler McCormack The power of an image is well established. Images and video are an unbiased source of truth; capturing views of time that human memory can’t reliably recall. For decades, leaders across all industries have used photos to see, understand and act upon insights appropriately. Yet the information within an image isn’t always so evident...
Protecting Precious Water: Miami Conservancy District Embraces Data Management in the Cloud
A photo shows MCD flood-protection levees in downtown Dayton at the RiverScape MetroPark. By Tony Ulrich Miami Conservancy District (MCD) was created in response to the devastating floods of 1913 when the Great Miami River burst its banks, killing 360 people and devastating the Dayton region of Ohio. Under the engineering direction of Arthur Morgan, MCD built a comprehensive flood-protection system that was completed in 1922. The system still protects the communities along the Great Mi...
Water Utility Enhances Reliability with Integrated Technology Upgrades
Technology convergence providers can help the public utility sector integrate key technology infrastructure, including phone, security and network systems. By Del Williams For public utilities that provide water while maintaining the physical infrastructure, it’s critical to ensure reliable, uninterrupted service and data integrity. This includes water metering/billing, compliance reporting, IT network cybersecurity, physical security of local and remote sites, and data collection for...
The New Hong Kong Palace Museum: A Brilliant Example of Outstanding Engineering in Service of Grand Architectural Vision
Heavy-duty steelwork taking place with one of the world’s finest (and most-expensive) views. The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM), a $450-million, seven-story, 30,000-square-meter architectural masterpiece designed by Rocco Yim and his firm, Rocco Design Architects (RDA), opened to great acclaim on July 3, 2022, and 115,000 visitors bought tickets and braved long lines in the opening month. The appeal is obvious; HKPM was designed and built specifically to display a highly sp...
BrIM Bridges the Gap Over the Mississippi
The Third Avenue Bridge crosses the Mississippi River near Minneapolis. MnDOT Renovates Historic Third Avenue Bridge To learn more about this project from the engineers’ perspective, Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Keith Molnau, P.E., major bridge projects engineer with MnDOT Bridge Office; and Chris Hoberg, P.E., construction engineer with MnDOT Bridge Office, via webcam. To watch the full interview, visit bit.ly/3owhr...
Executive Interview Series: Jack Dangermond, Founder and President, Esri
In February 2023, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson went to the GeoWeek conference in Denver where he interviewed Jack Dangermond, Esri founder and president. The full video interview can be viewed at bit.ly/41kfgvh but we also wanted to include some excerpts in this issue of the print magazine. Danielson: You just delivered the keynote address at GeoWeek. Can you provide a summary of some highlights? Dangermond: People in the geospatial world are m...
Sea to Sea on the Scottish Canals: Centuries of Infrastructure Innovation Culminate in the Ever-Changing Now
Creating a ‘Smart Canal’ In September 2022, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson went to the Autodesk University conference in New Orleans where he interviewed Colby Manwaring, vice president of water solutions at Autodesk. They discussed in detail the sensor and digital twin technology behind the Scottish Canals renovation, which created a “smart canal” that can protect against stormwater flooding. The full video interview can be viewed at bit.ly/3LXyfX4...
Wildfire Endangers Drinking Water: Lessons from Colorado’s Marshall Fire
Private wells are particularly vulnerable to contamination from wildfires. Whelton and his students spent a week in January 2023 conducting free water testing for these wells in the Louisville, Colo., area. Pictured is Kristofer Isaacson, a Purdue graduate student in Environmental and Ecological Engineering. (Purdue University photo/Andrew Whelton) Globally and domestically, wildfires can cause public health and safety risks and are increasing in intensity as well as the number of a...
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