GIS Solutions: Mind the Gap: Esri Is Fundamental to HDR’s Cutting-Edge DOT Deliverables
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Bendable Concrete and Carbon Sequestration
A specimen of bendable concrete is bent in a fixture in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department lab at the University of Michigan. Anyone who deals with infrastructure knows concrete is an excellent construction material. It ranks as one of the most-used resources on Earth, with an estimated 26 billion tons produced annually worldwide. It works well for constructing bridges, roads, dams, airports and buildings, and we know it lasts, as evidenced by the concrete structures...
Smart Ponds: Hurricane Ian Tests Stormwater Technology
A Smart Pond installation at Babcock Ranch in Florida. Just a few months after Florida’s Port Tampa Bay installed National Stormwater Trust (NST) Smart Pond technology, Hurricane Ian made landfall in the area, causing extensive flood and wind damage—but not at Port Tampa Bay. NST is a stormwater-focused company that assumes responsibility for the operation of existing stormwater ponds and deploys technology to provide state-of-the-art stormwater management and treatment services to impro...
Engineering A More Just Tomorrow: P3 Contracting and Construction Innovation Combine to Catalyze Central 70
A more just tomorrow starts with equitable access to life’s simplest treasures, and a good day at the park certainly qualifies. CDOT’s Central 70 project replaces an intrusive infrastructure with a crown jewel that reconnects life-long neighbors, families and friends in north Denver. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act to launch what was at the time the largest public-works project in American history. With an original authorization of $25 billio...
Engineered Solutions: Back on Track: Geosynthetic Reinforcement Solves for Soft Subgrade
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GIS Solutions: Esri: The OG of Digital Twins
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Infrastructure Outlook: Drones Have Changed How Engineers Capture Data on the Jobsite
Through the years, drones and civil and structural engineers’ attitudes toward these tools have changed. Previously viewed as a gimmick, drones have proven to be indispensable, dynamic and flexible tools helping to lead the technological and autonomous revolution on the modern jobsite. The number of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has continued to grow, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports more than 314,600 commercial drone registrations in the United States. Struct...
Future Forward: Five Ways AI Is Going to Shape the Future of Water and Resilient Infrastructure
For quite some time, we’ve been aware of artificial intelligence (AI). But for most of us, AI was limited to fantastic science fiction tales in the movies or large-scale experiments conducted by scientists and engineers. Certainly, who thought it would be something of significance that would directly touch our daily lives? Recently there has been a shift in that perception, with a surge in popularity among individuals and organizations discovering ways to utilize AI in one form or another to be...
ReEngineering the Engineer: Making It Buildable
Through the years, I’ve noticed my firm does a lot of additions to existing buildings. In the early days, much of it was driven by our hospital work. Hospitals are constantly growing—expanding emergency departments, adding beds, increasing diagnostic capabilities, offering new services, etc. Most campuses we work on still have enough real estate that allows them to expand horizontally. But even as our breadth of project types expanded, we still had to deal with expansions. Private schools add n...
From the Editor: No Surprise, but Engineering Gets ‘Smarter’ Every Year
In this annual Smart Engineering issue of Informed Infrastructure, you will read about great new ideas and products that are not only more efficient and economical, but also better for our environment. Isn’t this the definition of a win-win-win proposition? I always appreciate the advances being made in the engineering world. As I quickly reviewed some of the topics in this issue, I realized that a lot has changed in our profession—even in the last decade, let alone when I started as a new engi...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
