DeSimone Celebrates Grand Opening Of The Statue Of Liberty Museum
Image: View of the new Statue of Liberty Museum from New York Harbor DeSimone Consulting Engineers, a leading engineering firm with offices worldwide, recently celebrated the completion and grand opening of the new Statue of Liberty Museum. DeSimone worked closely with FXCollaborative, the National Park Service (NPS), and the Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation (SOLEIF) to design and complete the new cultural facility located just steps away from the iconic national monument on...
Baylor University Joins Research Team Seeking to Transform U.S. Water System
Mikhail Shmurygin (Baylor Computer Science masters student), Molly Klanderman (Baylor Statistics Ph.D. student) and Kathryn Newhart (Colorado School of Mines Civil & Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student) visit Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the “NextGen” workshop to prepare for the grant. (Courtesy of Amanda Hering) WACO, Texas – Baylor University has partnered with four Department of Energy laboratories and more than a dozen universities in a research alliance to address the cou...
Feature Article Follow Up: 167 N. Green St.
To complement a feature published in the April 2019 issue of Informed Infrastructure, "Making Everyone Happy: Early and Effective Collaboration to Realize a Beautiful Building," Todd Danielson, the magazine's editorial director, went to the Chicago office of Forefront Structural Engineers and interviewed Steve Franckowiak, S.E., P.E., associate, and Amanda Featherstone, S.E., P.E., project engineer.
Making Everyone Happy: Early and Effective Collaboration to Realize a Beautiful Building
To complement this feature, Todd Danielson, the magazine’s editorial director, went to the Chicago office of Forefront Structural Engineers and interviewed Steve Franckowiak, S.E., P.E., associate, and Amanda Featherstone, S.E., P.E., project engineer. Click here to watch the video. Structural engineers occupy a difficult niche in high-rise construction; too often, their role is perceived as a “reality check” on the actual cost-effective constructability of beautiful, ambitious buildi...
Tunnel Vision: Blended Technologies for Tight Schedules and Tighter Conditions
By John Stenmark John May is accustomed to taking on challenging projects, but he soon recognized that this one would be different. Meeting the project requirements would involve multiple technologies, advanced software and a team of dedicated and—quite literally—flexible surveyors that would spend days working in a cramped underground pipe built to carry water, not humans. The work originated from a utility owner in Northern California who needed to rehabilitate a 90-year-old buried water...
Aiming for Net Zero in Public Buildings: 8 Principles
Buildings account for as much as 40 percent of all energy consumed in the United States. To increase the efficiency of buildings and address climate-change issues, government programs increasingly promote “net zero energy” (NZE) goals for public buildings. The following eight guiding principles for project design phases will help produce buildings that generate energy onsite using clean renewable resources through the course of a year that are at least equal to the total amount of energy consu...
Aging Infrastructure Weighs Heavily on Water Utilities, J.D. Power Finds
COSTA MESA, Calif. — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that $473 billion in drinking water infrastructure investment will be needed during the next 20 years as aging pipes and treatment and storage facilities require upgrades and replacement. According to the J.D. Power 2019 Water Utility Residential Customer Satisfaction Study,SM released today, the ability of water utilities to successfully manage that process will increasingly be determined by how well they communicate with...
After the Wildfire: Soil Stabilization Key to Recovery Efforts
Fiber-reinforced matrix products are designed to give seed a stable growth medium on particularly steep slopes. Hydromulch was used on hillsides in the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles following the La Tuna Fire, which started Sept. 1, 2017, and burned 7,194 acres. It was the city’s largest wildfire in 50 years. Soil erosion is a common concern after a wildfire—just ask Logan Moore, a landscape associate with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) North Region. Moore w...
AW-Energy’s WaveRoller Using the Endless Energy of the Ocean’s Waves to Generate Electricity at New SURGE 2 Project in Peniche, Portugal Manufacturing Certificate Issued by Lloyd’s Register
WaveRoller provides a reliable and predictable source of renewable energy to the energy system that compliments more intermittent technologies such as wind and solar. WaveRoller taps the unused ocean energy resource that is readily available also for many locations where other renewable energy sources cannot be fully utilized due to limited available on-shore area or other considerations. A manufacturing certification milestone from Lloyd’s Register Lloyd’s Register surveyors inspecte...
Biogas Energy Storage System Launches at Wastewater Plant
A commercial thermal energy storage system that converts biogas from a wastewater treatment plant has begun operating in South Australia. Energy storage company 1414 Degrees switched on its gas thermal energy storage system (TESS) at the Glenelg Wastewater Treatment Plant in Adelaide today, its first commercial pilot site. The company says the technology is the first in the world to solve the issue of effectively storing biogas as thermal energy to produce heat and electricity on demand. T...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
