Change Leader: Creating Change Requires Persistence … and Time
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/46k3WSM. Ted Goldstein, P.E., is the Shuriken business development engineer for Atlas Tube. When Ted Goldstein began his engineering career in New York City, he never imagined he’d be living in Tokyo while inventing a new product that could change—perhaps even revolutionize—an industry that hasn’t...
Future Forward: Build Better Than the Local Code
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/44wGBMo. Aris Papadopoulos is the founding chair of the Resilience Action Fund and a distinguished expert in resilience at Florida International University. “A house built to a building code is the weakest house you can legally build,” notes Papadopoulos. “It’s minimum wage, so to speak. In what pa...
Future Forward: Utilities Can Use Technology to Gain Holistic Views of Entire Systems
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can listen to an audio recording of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3BjUwbG. Tiffany Gispanski is Schneider Electric’s national software strategic pursuits leader for the water/wastewater industry. Through her work in the water/wastewater industry, Gispanski knows the threat of climate change makes water management one of the largest challenges...
Change Leader: Focused on Collaboration and Information Management
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/41Agu56. Slater Latour was chief marketing and product officer at Newforma. Slater Latour believes design firms, particularly engineering firms, have a unique role in the infrastructure industry: they’re involved from the early planning stages all the way through project closeout. Their pr...
Change Leader: Fighting to Stop Fraud in the Steel Industry
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can listen to the audio of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3IGhf4T. Dale Crawford is the executive director of the Steel Tube Institute (STI) as well as director of its Conduit Committee. Now the executive director of STI, Dale Crawford has been advocating for the steel industry for about five years. He helps monitor imports and other competing...
Future Forward: Take Sustainability and Adaptive Reuse to a New Level
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3F7Lq44. Angela Whitaker-Williams, AIA, LEED AP, is a principal at Perkins&Will. Whitaker-Williams has a definitive opinion on using adaptive reuse of existing infrastructure for her projects. “I think adaptive reuse is pretty amazing,” she says. “You get to keep the history of the site, a...
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.
Change Leader: Moving Asset Management in a Better Direction
Didem Cataloglu is the CEO of DIREXYON Technologies. Infrastructure is an organism; an ever-changing amalgam of past, present and future. For most, the task of developing, delivering and maintaining the built environment relies on logical inference rather than data-driven determinations drawn from the interconnected whole. Didem Cataloglu, CEO of DIREXYON Technologies, takes aim at that distinction as the company she leads dives into the challenge of asset management for large-scale inf...
Future Forward: New Tools Needed To Take Full Advantage of Big Data
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3CVk7sl. Dr. Mike Flaxman is a geospatial expert and product manager at HEAVY.AI. It’s often assumed that cloud computing is the solution to properly using Big Data, the massive amount of information available on the internet. What can’t fit on a desktop computer or even much-larger company IT serv...
Future Forward: Infrastructure Technology Ready for Another Leap Forward
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3DW5S7N. Sam Hendrick is a MicroStation technologist and senior consultant with Bentley Systems. Technology means everything to Sam Hendrick. It’s his passion and why he calls himself a “technologist” even though his official title is “senior consultant” with Bentley Systems. “For me, tech...