The Future Is Robust for the Burgeoning U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Industry
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Jocelyn Knoll, a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney, and the chair of its Construction and Design Practice Group and co-chair of the firm’s Development and Infrastructure Industry Group, via webcam.
What Went Wrong At Surfside Collapse?
On July 6, 2021, Informed Infrastructure Editorial Director Todd Danielson interviewed Steven M. Baldridge, P.E., S.E., LEED AP, president of Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering (BASE), which he founded in 1995. A leading engineering firm in areas of high natural risk, the company now has offices in Hawaii, Chicago, Florida, Guam and India. The topic of the interview was the deadly June 24, 2021, failure and collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla.
Video: On the Job at Townsite Solar Project
Secretary Granholm rolls up her sleeves and gets a behind-the-scenes look at just some of the good-paying, union jobs that the American Jobs Plan will create.
Video: UCR School of Medicine Education Building II
UCR School of Medicine Education Building II from CO Architects on Vimeo. The Regents of the University of California have given final approval for the construction of the School of Medicine’s new $84-million Education Building II at UC Riverside. The Regents confirmed the selection of Hensel Phelps + CO Architects as the design-build partner for the project. The team was selected by the School of Medicine Education II working group and the UCR Office of Planning, Design, and Construction fo...
Video: Why Congress Needs A Nonpartisan Committee for Climate Crisis
This animated PSA is urging Americans to demand that Congress forms a nonpartisan infrastructure board to combat the climate crisis. » Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: https://go.nowth.is/KnowThis
Video: Official One Vanderbilt Construction Timelapse Movie
EarthCam has been working alongside SL Green Realty Corp. for over six years to showcase footage of another incredible addition to the NYC skyline. One Vanderbilt, Midtown's tallest commercial tower completed construction in late 2020. Eight webcams and almost 2 million images were used to deliver this timelapse movie. Watch this luxurious skyscraper earn its place as a 'shining beacon' on the New York City skyline! Credit: Courtesy of EarthCam
Video: All About the Future of Transport
The latest projections for future transport activity and CO2 emissions … and ways to reshape transport in the wake of Covid-19 featured in the 2021 edition of our flagship publication, the ITF Transport Outlook, launching at the #ITF21 Summit on Monday, 17 May. ITF Secretary-General Young Tae Kim and Jari Kauppila, Head of Secretary-General's Office and Head of Quantitative Policy Analysis and Foresight, showcase the Outlook's main findings and policy implications. https://www.itf-oecd.o...
Video: Converging Technologies Create Smart Infrastructure
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Ruth Gratzke, president and CEO of Siemens Smart Infrastructure USA, via webcam.
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...