Better Gardiner: Two Deteriorating Bridges Rapidly Replaced
(Image Credit - MaineImaging.com) Gardiner, Maine, is a small city (population less than 6,000) in Kennebec County. Founded in 1754 on the banks of the Kennebec River near the furthest point upriver that deep-draft vessels can reach, it’s a nationally accredited Main Street America community, and was initially famous for cutting, warehousing and shipping pristine Kennebec ice throughout the United States and internationally. A perfect storm of quaint, in other words, and the quaint exte...
The Proper Tools Help Ohio Contractor Prevent Ditch Bank Erosion
Werk-Brau buckets and attachments are used all over the world, but when the project is in your own hometown … well that hits a little differently. So when The Weber Company of Archbold, Ohio, recently embarked on a project to control erosion along a drainage ditch that ran through nearby Findlay, Ohio, Werk-Brau employees were proud to see their handiwork used to improve their local community. The drainage ditch in question, the Dalzell Ditch, is roughly three miles long and winds its way thr...
Collaborating for Success: Q&A with the Moynihan Phase 2 Quality Team for New York’s New Moynihan Station
A Q&A with Nagesh Goel, President, AEIS; John Carlson, Technical Manager and Project Manager, AEIS; and Dan Gorman, Quality Manager, Skanska Having opened last year, the historic James A. Farley Post Office Building’s redevelopment into the Moynihan Train Hall has created a new 255,000-square-foot station for Long Island Rail Road and Amtrak passengers, representing the busiest rail station in the country. The $1.6 billion project transforms the 100-plus-year-old block-long property into a mo...
Artificial Intelligence Can Transform the AEC Industry
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Mehdi Nourbakhsh, Ph.D., the CEO of YegaTech, a technology consulting company in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, via webcam.
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From the Editor: Message to Graduates (and All Engineers): Go Out and Do Good
I was pleased to attend the annual meeting of the Indiana Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which included a competition among college students who presented their senior design projects to an audience and a panel of judges. The senior civil engineers in the four colleges—University of Evansville, Purdue University, University of Notre Dame and Valparaiso University—showed a wide range of civil knowledge, and their presentation skills were admirable. The design projects includ...
Executive Corner: An Inside Look at the Landmark ESOP Valuation Case
For over a decade, the Department of Labor (DOL) has carried out a controversial and aggressive enforcement effort targeting valuation issues in employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). The DOL did not lose a major ESOP case on a valuation issue until the recent case of Walsh v. Bowers. The case involves many key valuation issues, and BVR was fortunate enough to have two of the testifying experts for the defense give the inside story of the case. Background. The case involves Bowers + Kubota, an...
Thoughts From Engineers: When Cities in the Midwest Run Dry
The states surrounding the Great Lakes have always been a bit smug about the bounty of freshwater on their doorstep. These states have been equally vigilant about keeping this resource close and have drafted laws to protect this enormous concentration of freshwater from being siphoned off or sold to thirsty neighbors. Many cities in Wisconsin and Illinois fueled their growth with the region’s seemingly limitless supply of groundwater. At the turn of the last century (1900s), after many of these...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
