The Power of Education to Change Lives
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Vinayak Trivedi, the vice president of Bentley Education, via webcam.
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.
Podcast: Bentley Transportation Software for Small Business
Traditionally, many have viewed Bentley software as a solution for large organizations and megaprojects. Until now many small businesses believed that their projects were too small for the same technology and that the cost was unsustainable for their business model. Bentley’s transportation software was developed by engineers to improve road projects both small and large and Virtuosity, a Bentley Company, has now made it accessible and affordable for small businesses. Whether you are loo...
Advancing Composite Materials Assessments Into the 21st Century
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Dr. Bobbi Jo Merten, a civil engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation, via webcam.
The Future Is Robust for the Burgeoning U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Industry
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Jocelyn Knoll, a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney, and the chair of its Construction and Design Practice Group and co-chair of the firm’s Development and Infrastructure Industry Group, via webcam.
What Went Wrong At Surfside Collapse?
On July 6, 2021, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson interviewed Steven M. Baldridge, P.E., S.E., LEED AP, president of Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering (BASE), which he founded in 1995. A leading engineering firm in areas of high natural risk, the company now has offices in Hawaii, Chicago, Florida, Guam and India. The topic of the interview was the deadly June 24, 2021, failure and collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla.
Video: Converging Technologies Create Smart Infrastructure
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Ruth Gratzke, president and CEO of Siemens Smart Infrastructure USA, via webcam.
Podcast: Mobility Digital Twins
Recently, Bentley Systems announced the acquisition of transportation modeling and Mobility Simulation Leader INRO Software to enable digital cities to simulate multimodal transportation scenarios, and model resilience and sustainability outcomes in mobility digital twins. Combining the capabilities of INRO’s advanced traffic and vehicle simulation with Bentley’s passenger and pedestrian simulation and civil design software, including CUBE, Streetlytics, LEGION and OpenRoads, places Bentley in a...
Podcast: An Open, Dynamic Platform for Digital Twins
Infrastructure professionals are quickly catching on to the significant gains that can be realized by digital twins with more than half of all large industrial companies expected to use digital twins in some form by 2021. The concept of an infrastructure digital twin is simple. If you have a physical asset and a digital asset that can represent everything in the physical asset, you can join them together, then use the digital asset to understand what is happening with the physical asset in th...
Change Leader Full Interview: Smart Engineering and Infrastructure Funding Desperately Needed
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 three decades has been prominent as an advisor on business and legal issues affecting the real estate, design and construction industries. V1 Media: Please briefly summarize your industry education and professional background. LePatner: By education, I am a lawyer licensed in the state of New York...