Take Sustainability and Adaptive Reuse to a New Level
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Angela Whitaker-Williams, AIA, LEED AP, is a principal at Perkins&Will, via webcam.
Video: How State DOTs Address Risk and Resilience
State DOTs are no strangers to extreme weather, from wildfires to floods and snowstorms. To understand how they're responding to this risk and enhancing resilience, tune in to AASHTO Transportation TV's Special Report on the Knowledge Session - Addressing Risk and Resilience Sponsored by the American Concrete Pipe Association (ACPA). This knowledge session moderated by Josh Beakley, vice president of engineering at ACPA, examines how state DOTs are addressing risk and resilience through their...
Podcast: Fighting to Stop Fraud in the Steel Industry
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Dale Crawford, the executive director of the Steel Tube Institute (STI) as well as director of its Conduit Committee.
Video: AASHTO 2022-23 Presidential Profile - Roger Millar
Roger Millar, secretary of the Washington State Department of Transportation, was unanimously elected 2022-2023 president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials by the association’s board of directors in October at the 2022 AASHTO Annual Meeting. As a seasoned land use planner and transportation engineer, Millar is focused on transportation system resilience—building, maintaining, and operating a system that is safe, sound, and smart. Through this focus, Millar...
Executive Interview Series: Keith Bentley, CTO, Bentley Systems
In November 2022, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson went to Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards in London where he interviewed Keith Bentley, a company founder and chief technology officer.
Video: On the Ground in Türkiye: Eyewitness Account of a Structural Engineer
The recent devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria have affected more than 20 million people, with approximately 2 million people losing their homes or being forced to evacuate, further compounding the region's humanitarian crisis. In response to requests from international agencies and the United Nations, Miyamoto has sent a team of engineers from its Türkiye and California offices to assess the cause of the disaster and the recovery process. The level of pain and suffering is immense,...
Panel Highlights: Infrastructure in the Spotlight
On Nov. 7, 2022, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson moderated a panel, “Spotlight Live: Delivering on America’s Infrastructure Promise,” featured at the annual Trimble Dimensions conference in Las Vegas. The session explored methods and technologies that are transforming transportation infrastructure projects—from digital as-builts for maintaining up-to-date records of assets to collaboration methods that connect stakeholders to a single source of truth. The panelists w...
New Tools Needed To Take Full Advantage of Big Data
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Dr. Mike Flaxman, a geospatial expert and product manager at HEAVY.AI, via webcam.
Road to Resiliency: Episode 2 - The Deadline
Then-Governor John Hickenlooper set a nearly impossible goal for re-opening all the roads after the 2013 floods in Colorado. See how that went over at CDOT in this latest episode.
Road to Resiliency: Episode 1 - Bad Things Were About to Happen
The Colorado Department of Transportation recently began releasing episodes from a new video series called “The Road to Resiliency” that documents the agency’s infrastructure response and recovery efforts in the wake of major flooding nine years ago. The first video highlights how almost one week worth of non-stop rain in September 2013 caused flooding that shut down more than 400 miles of roads and 200 bridges, forced the evacuation of 19,000 peopled, and stranded 3,000 people who ultimately...