Change Leader: Focused on Collaboration and Information Management
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/41Agu56. Slater Latour was chief marketing and product officer at Newforma. Slater Latour believes design firms, particularly engineering firms, have a unique role in the infrastructure industry: they’re involved from the early planning stages all the way through project closeout. Their projects a...
Change Leader: Fighting to Stop Fraud in the Steel Industry
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can listen to the audio of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3IGhf4T. Dale Crawford is the executive director of the Steel Tube Institute (STI) as well as director of its Conduit Committee. Now the executive director of STI, Dale Crawford has been advocating for the steel industry for about five years. He helps monitor imports and other competing produ...
Future Forward: Take Sustainability and Adaptive Reuse to a New Level
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/3F7Lq44. Angela Whitaker-Williams, AIA, LEED AP, is a principal at Perkins&Will. Whitaker-Williams has a definitive opinion on using adaptive reuse of existing infrastructure for her projects. “I think adaptive reuse is pretty amazing,” she says. “You get to keep the history of the site, and it’s...
Podcast: Fighting to Stop Fraud in the Steel Industry
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Dale Crawford, the executive director of the Steel Tube Institute (STI) as well as director of its Conduit Committee.
Change Leader: Moving Asset Management in a Better Direction
Didem Cataloglu is the CEO of DIREXYON Technologies. Infrastructure is an organism; an ever-changing amalgam of past, present and future. For most, the task of developing, delivering and maintaining the built environment relies on logical inference rather than data-driven determinations drawn from the interconnected whole. Didem Cataloglu, CEO of DIREXYON Technologies, takes aim at that distinction as the company she leads dives into the challenge of asset management for large-scale infra...
Future Forward: New Tools Needed To Take Full Advantage of Big Data
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/3CVk7sl. Dr. Mike Flaxman is a geospatial expert and product manager at HEAVY.AI. It’s often assumed that cloud computing is the solution to properly using Big Data, the massive amount of information available on the internet. What can’t fit on a desktop computer or even much-larger company IT servers su...
Future Forward: Infrastructure Technology Ready for Another Leap Forward
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/3DW5S7N. Sam Hendrick is a MicroStation technologist and senior consultant with Bentley Systems. Technology means everything to Sam Hendrick. It’s his passion and why he calls himself a “technologist” even though his official title is “senior consultant” with Bentley Systems. “For me, technologist...
Change Leader: Better Designs Improve Inspections; Better Inspections Improve Designs
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/3N77jmG. Nagesh Goel is the president and co-founder of Atlas Evaluation & Inspection Services (AEIS). It’s commonly understood that infrastructure elements are regularly inspected by experts—failed inspections lead to unwanted costs and notoriety. Less understood is who performs such inspections a...
Future Forward: GIS and Cloud Computing Are Rapidly Changing Infrastructure Management
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can watch the full video interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3dhQJD9. Jason Griffin, P.E., leads the municipal, field services and water resources teams in OHM Advisors’ Nashville office, and Helen Scales is a senior GIS analyst at OHM Advisors. It’s no surprise that Jason Griffin and Helen Scales believe aging infrastructure is a major problem facing utilities, de...
Change Leader: It’s Time to Design Infrastructure With People in Mind
This particular interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can listen to a podcast of the full interview above or by visiting bit.ly/3QZcgyt. Tawkiyah Jordan is the senior director of housing and community strategy for Habitat for Humanity International. In her work with Habitat for Humanity, Tawkiyah Jordan has noticed that in many lower-income neighborhoods, heavy infrastructure was designed and built without the conside...