A century ago, this picturesque Canadian city perched above the wide expanse of the St. Lawrence River gave the world the Québec Bridge. Still in service today, the massive steel bridge with the longest cantilever...
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Standing in her home on a leafy Dublin street, Liana O’Cleirigh sees what anyone else would: a red-brown armchair, a desk, and a window view of a neatly trimmed front lawn and the occasional passerby. Then there’s the 3D model...
A century ago, this picturesque Canadian city perched above the wide expanse of the St. Lawrence River gave the world the Québec Bridge. Still in service today, the massive steel bridge with the longest cantilever span in the world was...
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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...
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...
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. That’s where crews are building...
A Warning From 20 Feet Below In 2010, workers rebuilding the World Trade Center in New York City uncovered an unexpected piece of the past. About 20 feet below ground, excavation machinery struck weathered timber buried at the edge of...