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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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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...
Bentley Systems is opening a regional headquarters in Tokyo and plans to more than double its workforce in Japan over the next three years. Bentley (NASDAQ: BSY), which makes engineering software used around the world to design, build, and operate...
Try The Visualization The American story is, at heart, a building story. It’s 250 years of believing that what looked impossible was merely difficult. Crews strung bridges across straits deemed uncrossable, raised towers that shattered records year after year, and...
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America has more than 600,000 bridges, and a growing number are approaching the end of their useful life. More than a third, some 220,000, need major repairs or outright replacement, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers, which gave...
There is a cost that does not appear on your project budgets. It does not show up in your maintenance accounts. It is not captured in your risk registers. And yet it compounds, quietly, with every capital project your organization...