What Is the P3 Model? Can It Save Infrastructure?
Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure, spoke with several private-sector infrastructure executives to learn more about the public-private partnership (P3/PPP) model, how it works and if it can be part of the solution to the massive infrastructure problem in the United States and beyond. Danielson: What’s the status of infrastructure in the United States? Hopping: I think most of us agree, even Congress agrees across the aisle, that our infrastructure is rea...
Drones Are Transforming Infrastructure Design
By Hugh McFall It’s increasingly common to hear the steady hum of a drone flying on a construction site. They’re being used to share progress updates, manage earthworks, perform cut-and-fills and much more. But there’s also an emerging use case for drones within the civil engineering space: as designers move from 2D toward 3D design and BIM workflows, the reality-capture data that drones provide are making a huge impact on their projects. In short, drones are the latest tool in the civil...
SunTrust Park: Project Collaboration Helps Meet Opening Day Deadline for Atlanta Braves
Contractor: American Builders 2017 Architect: Populous Structural Engineer: Walter P. Moore Fabricator: Hirschfeld Industries Modeler/Detailer: BDS VirCon A photo shows the erection of the left-field terrace-level trusses. Architectural renderings describe the exterior east side. The Atlanta Braves called Turner Field home for nearly 20 years, but time had taken its toll on the stadium, and the team was faced with a structure that needed nearly $150 million in major...
Sustainable Restoration: Engineers Look to Stabilize and Revitalize Historic North Carolina Farm
By Scott King, Project Manager Vertical, unstable, eroding stream banks will be cut back and vegetated for stabilization. The historic Lochill Farm, nestled in the rolling hills of the Piedmont in the heart of North Carolina, has been a regional treasure for more than 200 years. Located just outside the town of Hillsborough, N.C., in the Upper Neuse River basin, the farm offers a unique landscape along Finches Branch stream and its tributaries, where horseback riders can enjoy leisur...
Engineered Solutions: Fugro Completes B-Directional Working Pile Load Tests for Triple-Deck Roundabout
Pile testing by Fugro using the Osterberg Cell (O-cell®) bi-directional technique saved time, reduced safety risks and overcame space constraints during piling for Highways England’s A19/A1058 junction improvements near Newcastle, United Kingdom. A three-tier interchange is being created by the construction of an underpass below the existing A19 roundabout, including three new single-span bridges and slip roads. Fugro was appointed by Bauer Technologies, the foundation's contractor for critical...
Renewable Energy: Apple Park Construction, Tech Leaders Make Huge Strides
Clean energy has been an increasingly important topic in the United States. Recent attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget have created more fuel for the flame of environmental activism. Although there’s much confusion and concern, there’s still major progress being made in renewable energy. Private-sector tech leaders such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple are pushing for 100-percent clean-energy-run operations. Making headlines and inspiring activists, Apple’s new headqu...
Penguin Perfect: Providing a Picturesque ‘Penguins Plus’ Path and Pavilion
Consultants employ the latest in design technology to create a non-invasive world-class viewing area and walking path for the Penguins Plus View Experience at Phillip Island Nature Parks in Victoria, Australia. Phillip Island is located in the southeast corner of Australia. Every evening at sunset on the coastal beaches about an hour and a half’s drive south of Melbourne, Australia, something magical happens. Located on the southeastern tip of Australia on the Summerland Peninsula, Phillip...
Long Island Rail Road Builds an Award-Winning New Bridge
The Long Island Rail Road Company (LIRR) was chartered in 1834, and is one of the few railroads that survived as an intact company from its original charter to the present. Like any transportation network—especially those that have been around for 183 years—LIRR deals constantly with aging infrastructure. In 2015, this was nowhere more true than in the Village of Thomaston on the North Shore of New York’s Long Island. The village’s two-lane Colonial Road Bridge had spanned track for 115 years, w...
Engineered Solutions: New San Francisco 49ers Stadium Scores Big with BioMod® Stormwater Management System
Sponsored By: A large construction project such as a major-league sports stadium can include significant expanses of runoff-generating hardscape. A venue capable of seating nearly 70,000 people requires large parking areas and other impervious grounds. If rainwater can turn a football field into a muddy swamp, it can also turn a parking lot into a floodplain. Draining that area effectively and treating the runoff is a basic necessity that should be provided from the very beginn...
Sponsored: Organizational Risk Management Practices Survey
Informed Infrastructure shares with its readers a strong belief that liability and risk mitigation are serious issues that must continue to be addressed and scrutinized to make infrastructure projects as safe and successful as possible. Recent examples of our content in these areas include columns by Douglas Fitzpatrick, P.E., founder and president of Fitzpatrick Engineering: “Managing Risk through Careful Planning,” March/April 2016, page 14; and “Picking Partners to Manage Risk,” May/June 201...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
