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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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...
The Gulf of Mexico is coming for New Orleans, and the global infrastructure sector is paying attention. Roughly 125,000 years ago, the shoreline sat about 30 miles north of the city. Recent research predicts that rising seas could push the...
Before the London office tower had a name, it had a shape. Rising 41 stories, wrapped in a steel lattice, and clad in shaded glass that tapered to a point at the top, it looked like a futuristic Easter egg....
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A road sign clipped by a passing truck shouldn’t be hard to replace, but the reality is not so simple. The maintenance crew is often left guessing: What were the sign’s dimensions, its federal code, the grade of reflective film...
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...
In the Swiss Alpine village of Mulegns, a bone-white tower rises 30 meters from the valley floor. Skeletal in its design, Tor Alva is the tallest 3D-printed structure in the world—each component fabricated by robots in Zurich, then trucked 175...
At the Bentley Systems Illuminate Berlin 2026 conference, infrastructure engineers and technology leaders met to confront a massive infrastructure challenge already visible in the numbers: Europe faces €12 trillion in infrastructure investment needs by 2040. Independent research and advisory firm...
Artificial intelligence is beginning to change the daily work of civil and structural engineers. But where do AI capabilities actually stand in the industry? More than 1,000 engineers from around the world recently gathered for a Bentley Systems event to...
