Engineered Solutions: Steep Railway Corridors
Custom Requirements No Problem for Rail Line Revegetation North Dakota’s Bakken oilfields experienced a boom in production in 2013. With oil prices soaring, production of crude was reaching 2 million barrels per day. Pipeline infrastructure was not in place at that time, requiring 95 percent of the oil to be shipped via rail. The single rail line into the region was quickly overtaxed, prompting The Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad to begin construction on a second rail line. As...
Change Leader: Insurance and Risk Management Is Crucial for Construction
Andrew Sims (top) is senior vice president, Head of Property and Construction, at Generali Global Corporate & Commercial U.S.A. (GC&C), with more than two decades of experience executing underwriting strategies and processes across U.S. and international underwriting platforms as well as within middle, corporate and national account market segments. Greg Mason (left) is vice president of construction for Generali GC&C, with 26 years of experience in the construction insurance industry...
Infrastructure Showcase: 2016 Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners Ranking
Normally in an Infrastructure Showcase, we profile unique, fascinating and/or award-winning projects that had a major impact on design and engineering. For this issue, we wanted to highlight an endeavor that goes beyond attractive photos and defines just how important infrastructure is worldwide. The Bentley Infrastructure 500 annually ranks the top owners of infrastructure from public and private sectors to help compare investment levels across types of infrastructure, world regions and organi...
Sponsored Content: BIM Boost - Essential Techniques for Infrastructure
Everybody is talking about BIM, but how many have actually taken the time to learn the latest technologies and techniques? After all, continual learning is the key to keeping up—and staying ahead. Whether it’s aerial surveys by drone or point cloud extraction, technological advances in civil engineering keep marching right along. So if you’re still on the fence, it’s time to take your data to the next level. It’s time for a BIM breakthrough. Start with Surveys Let’s start at the beginning:...
Technical Perspectives: Making a Case for Dynamo in 2017
After graduating with a Master’s degree in structural engineering, I anxiously began in 2006 what many would consider a traditional career path in the industry. I started working with a 2D CAD-based company that had a laser focus on everything that dealt with material properties, load cases and building codes, but never gave technology a second thought. However, I occasionally would hear discussions about transitioning from CAD to Autodesk’s Revit, which made me curious about how technology coul...
2017 Infrastructure Industry Outlook
Each year, the Informed Infrastructure editorial team reaches out to members of its Editorial Advisory Board to take the pulse across civil and structural engineering practices. The board includes a diverse range of practitioners with a wealth of experience in project and technology development. For this year’s outlook, we asked the same questions of each board member to see how different people with different perspectives would respond to the same questions. Our goal is to help find common gr...
Sponsored Content: Attend the IECA Environmental Connection Conference
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From the Editor: Start the New Year Looking Back to See Forward
With 2016 in the rearview mirror, it’s a great time to reflect on our accomplishments and failures as well as look ahead at the potential 2017 holds for us as individuals and for our industry as a whole. Look Back Professionally, 2016 was a busy and exciting year for me. As regular Informed Infrastructure readers know, my column moved to the very front of this magazine, exposing me to a much wider range of practical applications of emerging technology and forcing me think more holistically abo...
January – February 2017 TRENDS
In this section, Informed Infrastructure compiles infographics from trusted sources that reveal insight on infrastructure spending. We also compile some of the top infrastructure stories that shouldn’t be missed. For ongoing news coverage, turn to Informed Infrastructure online (www.informedinfrastructure.com), our Twitter feed (@IInfrastructure) and our weekly e-newsletter. USDOT Report: America Needs $926 Billion Infrastructure Investment U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Fo...
Use the Cloud to ‘Make It Rain’
By Mark Scacco, P.E. Hybrid cloud solutions provide immediate access to project data regardless of internet connectivity Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock or locked in an abandoned MySpace chat room for the last several years, you’ve undoubtedly come across the buzz surrounding “the cloud” and how everything, including your toaster, soon will be connected to it and doing all sorts of wonderful magic. And although using the cloud to determine which bathroom stall is available i...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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