From the Editor: Finally, No More ‘Kicking the Infrastructure Can’ to Future Generations
I was about halfway through reading the April 2022 issue of Informed Infrastructure when I realized that, besides the obvious choices of “the” and “and,” one of the most-used words was “infrastructure.” It’s even on the cover—twice. (This is not an official count. It’s just my reaction to the number of times writers are covering this topic.) The word often was followed by the words act or bill or law, and sometimes preceded by crumbling or poor or outdated. In the Text The first mention was a...
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‘Adaptive Reuse’ Leads to Innovative Partnering Opportunities
Where the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino once stood, Atlantic City will create a development corridor to connect a convention center to retail space, boardwalks and beaches. (Wikimedia Commons) As public assets become weathered through time, repair and maintenance costs accumulate. Without attention, the assets lose value and eventually become inefficient and unsafe. With local-government budgets stretched to the breaking point, thousands of public assets throughout the country have spiraled...
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 select...
ReEngineering the Engineer: Seeking ‘Five Reasons’ for Problems
One of our integrated project delivery (IPD) projects finished at the end of 2021. It survived a COVID-19 shutdown, reduced productivity due to restrictions of personnel onsite, cost increases and material-procurement challenges. Everyone was looking forward to getting this one over the finish line. The project included some health-care-related components and required some final inspections by a governing authority. Through several months, the owner had planned grand-opening activities right on...
High-Strength Steel Takes Salesforce Tower Chicago to New Heights
Salesforce Tower Chicago anchors Wolf Point, a mixed-use development at the confluence of the Chicago River’s three branches. (Steelblue) The Chicago River has been transformed into a vast recreational park, with opportunities for residents and visitors to access and enjoy the river at almost every mile. The most-notable stretch is the Chicago Riverwalk, which extends about 1.25 miles from Lake Michigan to Wolf Point. Here, an extraordinary mixed-use development is being completed that feat...
Help Wanted: Smart People; Transportation Industry Addresses Workforce Expansion and Diversification
Bentley Education partners with the National Society of Black Engineers to engage with talented engineering students. The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is a generational investment, promising impactful progress in rebuilding and modernizing America’s aging infrastructure, tackling the climate crisis, improving road safety, and more. Infrastructure owners are actively launching “shovel-worthy” projects for designers and contractors to deliver on IIJA’s promise,...
New Wittpenn Bridge Demonstrates the Criticality of Inspection
An estimated 178 million trips are taken across the nation’s more than 617,000 bridges, but approximately 7.5 percent of the nation’s bridges are considered structurally deficient, and 42 percent of all bridges are at least 50 years old. Considering recent incidents of bridge collapses in the news as well as the ‘C’ grade the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gives the nation’s bridge infrastructure, the criticality of bridge inspection can’t be understated. A prime example of an aging...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
