Twenty-six years ago, on the first construction project of his career, Ricardo Munguia Alvarez asked for the drawings of the building he was working on. When he laid his engineering plans for the structure, utilities,...
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Philippe Block stood on stage inside the cavernous Truman Brewery in London’s hip Brick Lane district. It was a warm Friday evening in mid-July, prime pub hours in this corner of East London. Yet architects, founders, students, and curious visitors...
Twenty-six years ago, on the first construction project of his career, Ricardo Munguia Alvarez asked for the drawings of the building he was working on. When he laid his engineering plans for the structure, utilities, and mechanical systems over the...
Louis-Martin Losier watched as a transparent box full of delicate gears turned, and in turn recreated the motions of the cosmos. Mercury rushed around its orbit, Saturn barely crawled, and the Sun circled the Earth, like clockwork. He was running...
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Louis-Martin Losier has given this tour many times. When visitors come to Quebec City, he walks them from the historic Château Frontenac hotel to the Plains of Abraham battlefield, then heads down to the Quebec Bridge, which crosses the St....
Look at a vacant lot in a growing or desirable location, and you may be looking at a problem. The easiest parcels have already been developed. What remains are sites with unusual topography, drainage challenges, or buried infrastructure that complicates...
Alyson Miller had never been on a plane before. The senior from Tecumseh, Mich., had also never stood before a panel of state transportation commissioners, never rendered a 3D bridge model in professional CAD software, and never watched something she...
The Gulf of Mexico is coming for New Orleans, and the global infrastructure sector is paying attention. Roughly 125,000 years ago, the shoreline sat about 30 miles north of the city. Recent research predicts that rising seas could push the...
Before the London office tower had a name, it had a shape. Rising 41 stories, wrapped in a steel lattice, and clad in shaded glass that tapered to a point at the top, it looked like a futuristic Easter egg....
A road sign clipped by a passing truck shouldn’t be hard to replace, but the reality is not so simple. The maintenance crew is often left guessing: What were the sign’s dimensions, its federal code, the grade of reflective film...