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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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...
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...
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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...
The call came before construction began, before cranes and iron workers arrived, before a single cubic yard of concrete was poured. Fabricators reviewing a digital model of the soon-to-be-rebuilt Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River had spotted a problem:...
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...
In central Kentucky, the farming town of Burgin has a four-way stop and not much else. It’s the kind of place where everyone knows each other, where families help their neighbors solve whatever problems come their way. It’s also where...