The sun never seems to fully set in Abilene, Texas. During the day, the West Texas sky is broad and blue, but when night creeps in, darkness never quite swallows the northern edge of town....
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A new study warns that the waters of the Gulf are poised to swallow up New Orleans, but that the challenges posed by Louisiana’s shifting coastline could position the state to become a global leader in climate adaptation strategies. The...
When Otto Lynch began his career as a transmission designer in the early 1990s, laying out the 500-kilovolt power loop around Washington, D.C., required a team of 30 engineers and six months of handwritten calculations. Today, Lynch says he could...
Every time you drive over a bridge, turn on a tap for a glass of water, or flip a light switch, you are placing your trust in a complex system of infrastructure. You trust that the engineering was sound, the...
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In 2032, Poland will open Port Polska, a single multimodal transit hub that neatly ties together a massive infrastructure package, including an airport that will ultimately handle 60 million passengers per year; roughly 500 kilometers of new high-speed rail linking...
With its extreme heat, seismicity, and salt-rich corrosive soils, the Saudi Arabian port city of Jazan is no easy place to build. So, when a huge grain warehouse in the city started to sink, crack, and warp, it presented a...
Illuminate 2026 Berlin, April 28-30 at the Hotel Adlon Kempinski, is the third stop in Bentley Systems’ 2026 infrastructure conference series after Sydney and Mumbai. Hundreds of engineers, government officials, contractors, and technology leaders will gather in Berlin—the teams who...
The call came before construction began, before cranes and iron workers arrived, before a single cubic yard of concrete was poured. Fabricators reviewing a digital model of the soon-to-be-rebuilt Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River had spotted a problem:...
Oliver Thomas spent two decades watching architects struggle with their software—so he started a movement. The British architect, who worked at major global firms before launching his own companies, founded the Archi-Tech Network (ATN), a global community for architects, technologists,...
When engineers from Collins Engineers arrived to inspect the landmark Robert Street Bridge in St. Paul, Minnesota, they already knew where to spot the problems because the century-old bridge had first been inspected by artificial intelligence (AI). A thorough bridge...