Change Leader: Better Designs Improve Inspections; Better Inspections Improve Designs
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/3N77jmG. Nagesh Goel is the president and co-founder of Atlas Evaluation & Inspection Services (AEIS). It’s commonly understood that infrastructure elements are regularly inspected by experts—failed inspections lead to unwanted costs and notoriety. Less understood is who performs such inspect...
Future Forward: GIS and Cloud Computing Are Rapidly Changing Infrastructure Management
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch the full video interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3dhQJD9. Jason Griffin, P.E., leads the municipal, field services and water resources teams in OHM Advisors’ Nashville office, and Helen Scales is a senior GIS analyst at OHM Advisors. It’s no surprise that Jason Griffin and Helen Scales believe aging infrastructure is a major problem facing utiliti...
Change Leader: It’s Time to Design Infrastructure With People in Mind
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can listen to a podcast of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3QZcgyt. Tawkiyah Jordan is the senior director of housing and community strategy for Habitat for Humanity International. In her work with Habitat for Humanity, Tawkiyah Jordan has noticed that in many lower-income neighborhoods, heavy infrastructure was designed and built without the c...
Change Leader: Climate Change Necessitates ‘Safe to Fail’ Engineering
This particular webcam interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can view a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3QyEfF4. For additional related information, read "The Role of Engineering to Address Climate Change," a new report the from Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) Mikhail Chester is associate professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State Universit...
Future Forward: A Life’s Work in Sustainability
This particular webcam interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can view a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3BRWzoJ. Dr. Christy Slay is the CEO and vice president, Science and Impact, The Sustainability Consortium (TSC). Dr. Christy Slay has been involved with The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) since it was just a concept—even before it officially was born 12 years ago. TSC consists of univ...
Change Leader: Extensive Planning Leads to More Grants, Better Research
This particular webcam interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can view a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3NqR5Dj. Dr. Sarah Orton is an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri College of Engineering. Dr. Sarah Orton has been conducting important academic engineering research for more than 20 years. Her specialty is reinforced conc...
Future Forward: Artificial Intelligence Can Transform the AEC Industry
This particular webcam interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can view a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3OvDsUP . Mehdi Nourbakhsh, Ph.D., is the CEO of YegaTech, a technology consulting company in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. The AEC industry is notorious for being slow to adopt new technology. It’s also prone to a high-risk, low-profit business model....
Change Leader: Water Infrastructure Needs New Policies To Match New Technology
This particular webcam interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can view a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3sDfez4 Colby Manwaring is a vice president at Autodesk and the former CEO of Innovyze. After more than a decade focused on the water industry with Innovyze and now Autodesk, Colby Manwaring has seen a variety of projects and implementations—some very successful and others not at all. To better he...
Future Forward: Use Technology to Achieve a ‘Digital Transformation’
This particular webcam interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can view a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3Ngn7m0. Brad Barth is the chief products officer at InEight. Brad Barth grew up in a family centered around heavy civil construction, where he acquired a passion for the process and particularly the technology. That interest persists today, where he tries to help owner/operators and co...
Change Leader: Modernize How You Perform Site Selection and Monitoring
These profiles are based on interviews, and the opinions and statements are those of the subject and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by this publication. This particular webcam interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can view a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3uigsB1. Tony Agresta is the executive vice president and general manager of the Nearmap North American division. Site se...