Change Leader: Pursuing P3 Partnerships
Skanska is a global construction and development company with a long history of public-private partnerships (P3) to design, build and operate large infrastructure projects. The company is working on the I-4 Ultimate Project in Orlando, Fla., which currently is the state’s largest transportation project, and recently opened the Elizabeth River Tunnels project underneath the Elizabeth River in Virginia. Most recently, the firm reached a financial close and executed a lease agreement with the Port...
Future Forward: Advancing Construction Monitoring
Mani Golparvar-Fard is associate professor of Civil Engineering and Computer Science as well as the director of the Real-time and Automated Monitoring and Control (RAAMAC) lab at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His award-winning work in the area of automated construction performance monitoring using video and imagery inputs and 4D building information models has been strengthened by partnering with construction companies to put these approaches into practice. Organization The R...
Change Leader: Retooling the Structural Engineer, Detailer and Fabricator Relationship
Douglas G. Fitzpatrick, P.E., is the founder, president and a practicing engineer of Fitzpatrick Engineering Group, a 10-year-old structural engineering firm specializing in commercial and healthcare building design. He has 32 years of commercial structural engineering experience and has been a user and system administrator of MicroStation-based software for more than 25 years. Fitzpatrick has a BSCE and MSCE from Virginia Tech and is currently registered in 20 states from the south to northeast...