Executive Interview Series: Keith Bentley, CTO, Bentley Systems
In November 2022, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson went to Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards in London where he interviewed Keith Bentley, a company founder and chief technology officer.
Video: On the Ground in Türkiye: Eyewitness Account of a Structural Engineer
The recent devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria have affected more than 20 million people, with approximately 2 million people losing their homes or being forced to evacuate, further compounding the region's humanitarian crisis. In response to requests from international agencies and the United Nations, Miyamoto has sent a team of engineers from its Türkiye and California offices to assess the cause of the disaster and the recovery process. The level of pain and suffering is immense,...
Panel Highlights: Infrastructure in the Spotlight
On Nov. 7, 2022, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson moderated a panel, “Spotlight Live: Delivering on America’s Infrastructure Promise,” featured at the annual Trimble Dimensions conference in Las Vegas. The session explored methods and technologies that are transforming transportation infrastructure projects—from digital as-builts for maintaining up-to-date records of assets to collaboration methods that connect stakeholders to a single source of truth. The panelists w...
New Tools Needed To Take Full Advantage of Big Data
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Dr. Mike Flaxman, a geospatial expert and product manager at HEAVY.AI, via webcam.
Road to Resiliency: Episode 2 - The Deadline
Then-Governor John Hickenlooper set a nearly impossible goal for re-opening all the roads after the 2013 floods in Colorado. See how that went over at CDOT in this latest episode.
Road to Resiliency: Episode 1 - Bad Things Were About to Happen
The Colorado Department of Transportation recently began releasing episodes from a new video series called “The Road to Resiliency” that documents the agency’s infrastructure response and recovery efforts in the wake of major flooding nine years ago. The first video highlights how almost one week worth of non-stop rain in September 2013 caused flooding that shut down more than 400 miles of roads and 200 bridges, forced the evacuation of 19,000 peopled, and stranded 3,000 people who ultimately...
Video: Hawaii DOT Talks Transportation Resiliency
AASHTO’s Transportation TV interviewed Edwin Sniffen, Hawaii DOT deputy director for highways, as part of its “2 Minute State DOT Update” video news series that illustrates how state departments of transportation build, maintain, and improve America’s multimodal transportation network. During the interview, Sniffen explained what making a transportation system “more resilient” means and how Hawaii DOT incorporates that philosophy into its infrastructure planning, construction, and delivery pr...
Association Update: Steel Tube Institute Hires New Director
On Oct. 14, 2022, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson interviewed Holly Schaubert, P.E., Institute Director: HSS for the Steel Tube Institute (STI).
Montana DOT Mobilizes Quickly Using All-Digital Modeling and Delivery to Rebuild a Vital Wildfire-Damaged Bridge While Gaining Insight into Expanding Digital Delivery Agency-Wide
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Montana Department of Transportation’s Patrick Lane, Lenci Kappes and Brandon Jones, via webcam.
Video: How to Build a Wood Skyscraper
Mass timber has gone from novelty to trend. But how does it change the construction process? Is there a way to replace steel and concrete with wood? That’s the idea behind mass timber — a relatively new construction technique that’s making its way from Europe to the United States. In the above video, you can learn how mass timber changes the construction process. Vox’s Phil Edwards visited Ascent Milwaukee, the tallest mass timber building in the world, to see how it all comes together....