Change Leader: The Engineering Advantages of Being a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE)
This interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/45RjICS . Greg Chismark is president of WBK Engineering; and Yemi Oyewole is board member and practice manager for transportation, WBK Engineering. Based on news announcements and industry proclamations, it seems there’s currently a never-ending supply of engineering and design work, and every firm has more p...
Change Leader: Do More Than ‘Check a Box’ to Meet Disability Requirements
This interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3QLUz8F. Mark Raymond Jr. is a disability advocate as well as founder and CEO of Split Second Foundation. Mark Raymond Jr. has spent most of his life advocating for a more-equitable world. He started by raising awareness of systemic racism he saw firsthand and in the communities around him in New Orleans....
Future Forward: An Ancient Concrete Technique Could Help Save the Future
This interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/40AC7mK. John Ward is chairman of the American Coal Ash Association’s Government Relations Committee and executive director of the National Coal Transportation Association. If you watch the video associated with this profile, you’ll see that John Ward knows a lot about coal fly ash, a waste product from burni...
Change Leader: Sustainability Needs to Be Part of Any Infrastructure Project
This interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/461fcmx. Rodrigo Fernandes is the Director of ES(D)G - Empowering Sustainable Development Goals for Bentley Systems. It may be paraphrasing a bit, but Rodrigo Fernandes hopes he’s out of a job within five years. “The ultimate outcome for a chief sustainability officer would be to disappear in a couple of yea...
Future Forward: Prepare for the Future in the Beginning Design Phase
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/44LLRLl. Ari Raivetz is the founder and CEO of Transcend. According to Ari Raivetz, many of the problems in our current infrastructure stem from poor designs that had to be made quickly, under deadline, without considering all the uncertainty and change that will inevitably happen. “We’re not cons...
Change Leader: Sustainability Needs to Be the New Normal
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3sd2qlM. Jennifer Hara is vice president for JLL’s Clean Energy and Infrastructure Advisory team. Jennifer Hara is a self-proclaimed “infrastructure nerd.” It may have started in her blood, with her father being an elected politician in the state of Washington, but it certainly developed through her educ...
Future Forward: Key Themes to Build Sustainable Transportation Networks
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/447Hf1R. Cathy Choi, PhD, is the chief sustainability officer and vice president of engineering at ClearFlame. Backed by a PhD in mechanical engineering and three decades of experience in the energy and transportation sectors, Cathy Choi co-chaired a task force and helped create a report for the Engineer...
Change Leader: Creating Change Requires Persistence … and Time
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/46k3WSM. Ted Goldstein, P.E., is the Shuriken business development engineer for Atlas Tube. When Ted Goldstein began his engineering career in New York City, he never imagined he’d be living in Tokyo while inventing a new product that could change—perhaps even revolutionize—an industry that hasn’t change...
Future Forward: Build Better Than the Local Code
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch a video of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/44wGBMo. Aris Papadopoulos is the founding chair of the Resilience Action Fund and a distinguished expert in resilience at Florida International University. “A house built to a building code is the weakest house you can legally build,” notes Papadopoulos. “It’s minimum wage, so to speak. In what part of...
Future Forward: Utilities Can Use Technology to Gain Holistic Views of Entire Systems
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can listen to an audio recording of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3BjUwbG. Tiffany Gispanski is Schneider Electric’s national software strategic pursuits leader for the water/wastewater industry. Through her work in the water/wastewater industry, Gispanski knows the threat of climate change makes water management one of the largest challenges in th...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
