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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...
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...
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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...
In the early 1990s, I was part of a team of about 30 engineers working in Washington, D.C., on its power loop—a 500-kilovolt transmission line looping around our nation’s capital through Virginia and Maryland. We spent six months on that...
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...
Sydney is famous for the billowing roof of its Opera House and the graceful curve of the Harbour Bridge. Less visible, but no less essential, is the infrastructure that keeps cities like it running: the tunnels, ports, water mains, and...