Video: Developing 110 N. Wacker Drive
To learn more about the building and its development, Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Chris Payne, vice president at Riverside Investment & Development, via webcam. They discuss the structural engineering challenges at the project as well as what owners and developers look for when choosing its team.
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Map Your City, Even from the Comfort of Your Home
It’s possible to make data accessible by anyone and get the job done anywhere, anytime. If 2020 taught us anything, it taught us that we must be remote. Many involved in mapping and planning cities are realizing that not only do things change, they change fast. With that change comes a massive amount of new and updated data, and staying current requires the skillful deployment of digital data management. For cities—where more than half of the world’s population lives—that data and cadastral i...
A Big Deal by Any Measure: Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Opens for Business
Currently clunkily named, but impressive by every other measure, the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement opened all six vehicle lanes to traffic on Oct. 5, 2020, marking the triumphant conclusion to a seven-year, $1.47-billion project that may well turn out to be the most significant and successful infrastructure achievement in California this decade. Headlining superlatives include the following: • With two towers reaching 515 feet into the sky, it will be the second-tallest cable-stayed br...
Technical Standards: Benefit or Hindrance to Progress?
Technical standards are meant to protect the safety and welfare of the general public by providing uniform product design and performance requirements for the manufacturer. However, when narrowly written, a standard can unnecessarily impede technological improvements and restrict competition in the marketplace. Technical standards, such as those published by ASTM International as well as Canadian Standards Association (CSA), communicate consistent methodologies for product design, testin...
North Dakota Wildlife Crossing Improves Highway Safety for Animals and People
To help reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and protect North Dakota’s bighorn sheep population, a wildlife underpass was completed recently as part of a $38.5 million project along U.S. 85 that replaced the historic Long X Bridge over the Little Missouri River south of Watford City. From the American antelope to white-tailed deer, every western U.S. state has migratory big game herds, and many of these migrations cross a major transportation corridor. The loss can be hundreds of animals eac...
Infrastructure Finance: Milestone Bond Issuance for Jamaica Toll Road
The issuance of $225 million 5.75% senior secured notes in February 2020 by TransJamaican Highway Limited (TJH), the Jamaican toll road concessionaire, followed by the initial public offering of shares in TJH in March 2020, were watershed events for the capital markets in Jamaica and the Caribbean region. DANIEL P. WHITMORE TJH is the concessionaire to develop the East-West Highway, the first stage of Jamaica’s Highway 2000 Project. The toll road is an essential, proven asset for Jamaica w...
Code Update: IAPMO 2021 Uniform Codes and Standards
The International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) continues to protect the public through its ANSI-approved development process where third-party oversight ensures a true consensus document. The Uniform Codes maintain the necessary balance between prescriptive requirements and allowable performance standards; it details exactly how a system needs to go together. The provisions in the Uniform Codes are specifically written to protect the public and aid jurisdictions thro...
Project Management Insights: PM Resolutions for a New Year
We’ve recently completed an interesting and challenging year, and there appears to be resounding energy and positivity to turn the calendar and move forward. Firms still are conducting strategic planning, transitioning ownership and focusing on improvements within operations. These all are good activities. The show must go on—maybe a little differently and more remotely, but it must go on. Transitioning from year to year often brings resolutions to mind and—even if you don’t pledge them in y...
Executive Corner: Five Takeaways on 2020 A/E M&A Activity
The 2020 global pandemic will forever be remembered as when the simplest of norms and patterns across everyday family and office life were turned upside down. A/E leaders, whose patience and determination were tested just as they were 10 years ago during the depths of the Great Recession, once again rose to the occasion. Through care and compassion, instinct and intellect, they led our resilient design and construction industries, the steady and steely backbones of the country, to even greater h...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
