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,...
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
Brett Taig has found a way to stabilize the fault lines where infrastructure megaprojects so often start to unravel. His weapon of choice? Data moving like clockwork between teams. Taig is the digital engineering manager on the North East Link...
Around the world, Sydney is instantly recognizable from a single image: the white sails of the Sydney Opera House rising from the edge of a picturesque harbor. But the city is far more than a postcard. Built along one of...