New Water Resource Recovery Facility for ‘Beer City USA‘
A Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) conditioning system recovers and conditions methane to pipeline-quality natural gas used by the city of Grand Rapids’ public transportation system and the city’s natural-gas-powered vehicles. With more than 40 breweries, the city of Grand Rapids, Mich., often has been called “Beer City USA.” While that distinction put Grand Rapids on the map for locals and tourists alike, it also created a unique wastewater stream that drove the city to open a state-...
Panel Highlights: Infrastructure in the Spotlight
On Nov. 7, 2022, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson moderated a panel, “Spotlight Live: Delivering on America’s Infrastructure Promise,” featured at the annual Trimble Dimensions conference in Las Vegas. The session explored methods and technologies that are transforming transportation infrastructure projects—from digital as-builts for maintaining up-to-date records of assets to collaboration methods that connect stakeholders to a single source of truth. The panelists wer...
Letters from February 2023 Issue
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Engineered Solutions: Aerial Photogrammetry: The Key to Reducing Design Rework and Increasing Revenue
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Infrastructure Outlook: How Technology Will Ensure $1.2 Trillion Worth of Infrastructure Projects
The United States currently ranks 13th in the world in overall quality of infrastructure. However, with the recent passing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the U.S. is poised to make a historic investment in improving the nation’s infrastructure. With an injection of $1.2 trillion into the country’s infrastructure systems during the next five years, it’s critical the funding is put to work in the most-effective manner possible. One key component in establishing maximum eff...
ReEngineering the Engineer: Celebrate the Clever Things
I have worked my entire career at two small firms, and I really enjoy working on a diversity of projects. My previous firm, at that time, had a relatively small band of project types it worked on. When I started out on my own in 2004, my main goal was diversity. I’d been around long enough to see other firms (engineering and architectural) get hurt by lack of diversity when certain building types went out of favor. Although diversity requires different building types and materials, there is cro...
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Engineered Solutions: Montana DOT Mobilizes Quickly Using All-Digital Modeling and Delivery to Rebuild a Vital Wildfire-Damaged Bridge While Gaining Insight into Expanding Digital Delivery Agency-Wide
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Engineered Solutions: An Engineer Explains Nearmap’s AEC Content Stack
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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, technologist...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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