Video: Testing Our Infrastructure: Hydro Poles
Just like you would perform regular checks on your vehicle, your furnace or your health, Hydro Ottawa regularly inspects all of our equipment across the city, including our 50,000 hydro poles. On average, a wooden hydro pole has a lifespan of about 40 years, but sometimes damage from water, woodpeckers and other elements can cause issues with poles, which could potentially lead to outages. Our pole inspection program decreases the chance of pole-related outages through annual inspections. We...
Renovation Completed of Bridge with Unique Tensile Forces
This week the Managing Contractor, a joint venture of Royal HaskoningDHV and Arup, handed the fully renovated Tacitus Bridge over to the national transport authority Rijkswaterstaat. The renovation of this bridge near Ewijk (The Netherlands) has been officially fully completed. With a length of more than one kilometer, the suspension bridge in the A50 near Ewijk is a key project because of the strategic location in the Dutch road network. The renovation has significantly improved the traffic...
Dewberry Selected to Perform Force Main Replacement Along Highway 274 in South Carolina
Dewberry has been selected by York County, South Carolina, to perform a force main replacement along Highway 274 from Crowder's Creek Pump Station to the Big Allison Creek Pump Station. The firm's Charlotte, North Carolina, office is providing design, permitting, bid, and construction administration services. Due to substantial development along the South Carolina Route 274 corridor and in the Lake Wylie community, the county has identified 28,000 feet of force main for replacement to meet in...
Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Urbahn Architects Complete Renovation of Historic Morgan Avenue Subway Station in Brooklyn, NY
Photo by Peter Wilk/Wilk Marketing Communications Brooklyn, NY – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the New York City architectural and planning firm of Urbahn Architects have completed the renovation of the historic Morgan Avenue subway station house. Serving the L train line, Morgan Avenue station house is located on the west side of Bogart Street, at the intersection of Harrison Place, in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. MTA served as project manager as well as s...
EPA Guidance Provides New Options for Meeting TMDL Goals
The goal of the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program is arguably simple - to develop watershed level conservation plans designed to restore impaired waters and attain applicable water quality standards – but its development and implementation has not been simple. In an attempt to bring new clarity to the process of incorporating TMDLs into stormwater permits, the EPA issued a revised guidance document last November entitled “...
Philadelphia Water Streamlines Operations with Enterprise Data Management System
The Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) is a municipal utility providing a population of nearly 1.7 million people in three eastern Pennsylvania counties with integrated water, wastewater, and stormwater services. The utility is responsible for planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the necessary infrastructure. By integrating the rapidly growing ProjectWise data management system with the city’s geospatial database and Capital Program Integrated Tracking (CAPIT) database,...
Three Things You Should Know About Managed Services
The simplicity of the user experience that we have grown accustomed to with our smartphones and tablets is in stark contrast to the growing complexity of the cloud computing technology that makes it possible. Enterprise information technology has experienced a series of disruptions and an increasing rate of change over the last ten years that indicate we have entered into a whole new era of computing. Small wonder then that the IT shop in the typical architecture, engineering and construction...
Improving Pipeline Information Sharing
On September 9, 2010, a section of natural gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded leading to significant property damage and the death of 9 people. The cause of the explosion was ultimately traced to defective welds and a decision to increase the pipeline operating pressure. Legal action was taken against the operating company, and a number of its executives are facing criminal indictments. Of particular interest is the charge, under the U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968,...
Top Five Trends in Managed Services
Bentley users attend an informative discussion on industry trends. During the last 18 months we have seen a steady increase in the number of requests that we have received from architecture, engineering and constructions companies to manage their software applications for them. The scope includes project design collaboration and work-sharing applications through to construction work packaging and asset management. What is motivating them is the increasing complexity of the information techn...
Developing a GIS Web Presence: The Audience-Focused Approach
In the old days, when you wanted to find a restaurant or other business, you had to flip through the yellow or white pages, read each entry, maybe call a few to check their hours, then use an atlas or printed map book to find out how to drive there. The process was long, methodical, and not user-friendly. Fast forward to today and this same process often takes just seconds. You simply open an app on your smartphone and, with a few taps on the screen, find a business, read reviews on it and ge...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
