When you walk into Bentley Systems’ Dublin office on most weekdays, you’ll likely find Julien Moutte exactly where you expect him: at a desk, made from light wood, located in the middle of the open-plan...
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Brett Taig has found a way to stabilize the fault lines where infrastructure megaprojects so often start to unravel. His weapon of choice? Data moving like clockwork between teams. Taig is the digital engineering manager on the North East Link...
Around the world, Sydney is instantly recognizable from a single image: the white sails of the Sydney Opera House rising from the edge of a picturesque harbor. But the city is far more than a postcard. Built along one of...
In central Kentucky, the farming town of Burgin has a four-way stop and not much else. It’s the kind of place where everyone knows each other, where families help their neighbors solve whatever problems come their way. It’s also where...
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Once upon a time, there lived a scientist with a flair for the theatrical. Blending education with entertainment, John Henry Pepper entranced audiences across Victorian England with demonstrations of scientific innovations. Then, one Christmas Eve, Pepper unveiled his most sensational...
From wildfires in California to hurricane-strength storms in the mountains of North Carolina, climate hazards are growing more intense. More frequent and costly disasters are also exposing the fragility of interconnected infrastructure networks, triggering cascading failures, economic disruption, and threats...
In Colombia, geography can be destiny. Steep ridgelines, dense jungle, and narrow valleys carve parts of the South American country into isolated pockets of civilization where roads can’t always follow. In many communities, a town’s main street doubles as its...
Good data means money well spent for Morgan Musick, an engineer at the Alabama Department of Transportation. High on her wish list is reliable, up-to-date information about the condition of every guardrail, road sign, and median strip marking Alabama’s 11,000...
As summer temperatures in northern Portugal increasingly push past 38°C (100°F), water providers can’t afford to treat heat waves and demand spikes as outliers. When water tanks run low, pumping costs surge and pressure drops threaten service to major cities...
In early February, the Khronos Group, the open standards consortium which counts Google, Nvidia and Apple among its members, released a candidate for a new extension that could reshape how the world captures and shares three-dimensional reality. The extension, called...