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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Twenty-six years ago, on the first construction project of his career, Ricardo Munguia Alvarez asked for the drawings of the building he was working on. When he laid his engineering plans for the structure, utilities, and mechanical systems over the...
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...
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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Look at a vacant lot in a growing or desirable location, and you may be looking at a problem. The easiest parcels have already been developed. What remains are sites with unusual topography, drainage challenges, or buried infrastructure that complicates...
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...
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....
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...