When Hurricane Sandy struck New York City in 2012, nature exposed the fragility of one of the world’s greatest cities. The storm flooded a critical power station and knocked out electricity across a large section...
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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....
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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...
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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...
When Hurricane Sandy struck New York City in 2012, nature exposed the fragility of one of the world’s greatest cities. The storm flooded a critical power station and knocked out electricity across a large section of Manhattan. In neighborhoods throughout...
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...
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Some have called it Europe’s answer to the Suez Canal. The Seine-Nord Europe Canal in northern France is the largest construction project of its kind on the continent. When complete, the €7.3 billion waterway will connect France to Belgium, the...