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Before the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church gathered in the Vatican to elect the leader of the world’s largest Christian church—ultimately choosing Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV—they attended a special Mass...
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David Settlemyer had a distinct knack for making the impossible seem inevitable. Armed with a Southern drawl and an arsenal of folksy colloquialisms — “as useful as socks on a rooster” was a favorite — the Kannapolis, North Carolina native...
Some engineering marvels were once highly controversial projects. As the Empire State Building grew above Manhattan during the Great Depression, many New Yorkers complained that the iconic Art Deco skyscraper was a waste of money. Throughout the 1990s, security-conscious Brits...
Before the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church gathered in the Vatican to elect the leader of the world’s largest Christian church—ultimately choosing Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV—they attended a special Mass in the imposing grandeur of...
With staggering results, Serelle Corn and Jeff Campbell are reshaping how billion-dollar infrastructure gets planned and delivered. And it all started with an office printer and a love story that’s pure Hollywood rom-com. These days, billion-dollar infrastructure projects are the...
James Bowles has always loved building things. As a child, he spent hours with Lego, piecing together miniature cities brick by brick. As a teenager, he became fascinated by skyscrapers—their design, engineering, and sheer scale. It wasn’t just their height...
I traveled to the U.S. in November to meet my team at Bentley Systems headquarters just outside Philadelphia. I am a senior product marketing manager in Europe at Bentley, the infrastructure engineering software company, and I specialize in software for...
Clarity is invaluable for a project as staggeringly complex as the international fusion experiment. The project, also known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), is being built in France and is one of the most ambitious scientific collaborations in...
On Saturday, Everton FC played Manchester United for a final time at Goodison Park—the historic Liverpool stadium where the Premier League rivals first squared off in 1892. One of the world’s oldest and most storied football clubs is now preparing...
I love my adopted City of London. English poet John Davidson described it far better than I can in the final verse of his poem ‘London’, written over 125 years ago: The parks, the squares, the thoroughfares,The million-peopled lanes and...
