Podcast: Mobility Digital Twins
Recently, Bentley Systems announced the acquisition of transportation modeling and Mobility Simulation Leader INRO Software to enable digital cities to simulate multimodal transportation scenarios, and model resilience and sustainability outcomes in mobility digital twins. Combining the capabilities of INRO’s advanced traffic and vehicle simulation with Bentley’s passenger and pedestrian simulation and civil design software, including CUBE, Streetlytics, LEGION and OpenRoads, places Bentley in a...
Podcast: An Open, Dynamic Platform for Digital Twins
Infrastructure professionals are quickly catching on to the significant gains that can be realized by digital twins with more than half of all large industrial companies expected to use digital twins in some form by 2021. The concept of an infrastructure digital twin is simple. If you have a physical asset and a digital asset that can represent everything in the physical asset, you can join them together, then use the digital asset to understand what is happening with the physical asset in th...
Change Leader Full Interview: Smart Engineering and Infrastructure Funding Desperately Needed
Barry B. LePatner is the author of Too Big to Fall: America’s Failing Infrastructure and the Way Forward. He is founder of the New York City-based law firm LePatner & Associates LLP; and for three decades has been prominent as an advisor on business and legal issues affecting the real estate, design and construction industries. V1 Media: Please briefly summarize your industry education and professional background. LePatner: By education, I am a lawyer licensed in the state of New York...
Future Forward Full Interview: Lobbying for the Future of Engineering
Linda Bauer Darr is president and CEO of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). V1 Media: Please briefly summarize the ACEC, what it does, as well as your role in the organization. Darr: The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) is the voice of the business of engineering. We have approximately 5,500 firms that we represent, mostly in the civil engineering space, infrastructure, buildings, facilities, just a whole range of things that are in the built environm...
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.
Video: The Digital Capabilities of US Water Utilities SmartMarket Brief
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Gregg Herrin, the vice president of water infrastructure at Bentley Systems, via webcam. They discussed a new study and report, "The Digital Capabilities of US Water Utilities SmartMarket Brief," jointly published by Dodge Data & Analytics and Bentley Systems, which established a benchmark for municipal water systems and the readiness of this market for digital transformation.
Video: Changing Practices for a Changing World
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Tom Lewis, the executive lead for the National Business Line for Climate, Resilience and Sustainability within WSP USA; and Michael Mondshine, the senior vice president and director, Sustainability, Energy and Climate Change, WSP USA.
Future Forward Full Interview: Transform Vacant Singular-Use Buildings for Year-Round Occupancy
Nicole Keeler is the director of sustainability at NELSON Worldwide. V1 Media: Please provide a brief background of your education and career before NELSON Worldwide. Keeler: I studied interior and environmental design in college, so I have a Bachelor’s degree as an interior designer, mainly focused on the architectural side of interiors. And then I interned with a company right out of college at Griswold Heckle & Kelly and worked with them on their workplace services, which just meant...
Video: Hearing the Voice of the Customer
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Katriona Lord-Levins, the chief success officer for Bentley Systems, via webcam.
Change Leader Full Interview: Utility Providers Increasingly Turn to Third-Party Private Contractors
Keith Oldewurtel leads Veolia North America’s (VNA’s) municipal water and energy business. V1 Media: Please provide a brief background of your education and career before Veolia. Oldewurtel: I have 42 years of experience in water, wastewater, energy, utility, management and operations. I joined Veolia about 12 years ago as general manager of a district energy system in Michigan. Prior to that, I spent 20-plus years working for a large engineering, construction and environmental firm, i...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
