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From wildfires in California to hurricane-strength storms in the mountains of North Carolina, climate hazards are growing more intense. More frequent and costly disasters are also exposing the fragility of interconnected infrastructure networks, triggering cascading...
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Once upon a time, there lived a scientist with a flair for the theatrical. Blending education with entertainment, John Henry Pepper entranced audiences across Victorian England with demonstrations of scientific innovations. Then, one Christmas Eve, Pepper unveiled his most sensational...
From wildfires in California to hurricane-strength storms in the mountains of North Carolina, climate hazards are growing more intense. More frequent and costly disasters are also exposing the fragility of interconnected infrastructure networks, triggering cascading failures, economic disruption, and threats...
In Colombia, geography can be destiny. Steep ridgelines, dense jungle, and narrow valleys carve parts of the South American country into isolated pockets of civilization where roads can’t always follow. In many communities, a town’s main street doubles as its...
When you walk into Bentley Systems’ Dublin office on most weekdays, you’ll likely find Julien Moutte exactly where you expect him: at a desk, made from light wood, located in the middle of the open-plan floor. There’s no corner office,...
On a brisk November morning, Julien Moutte walked through Dublin Docklands with a small camera crew in tow for a film being produced for Bentley Systems by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions. Over the last two decades, the area has been...
On the second morning of the Bentley Tech Summit in Berlin, Marina Savenkova looked around a crowded conference room and paused. “I totally can say one Bentley,” said Savenkova, an Ireland-based senior application engineer at Bentley Systems. “Yeah, one Bentley...
Each January, Washington becomes the global hub for the future of transportation. Thousands of policymakers, researchers, engineers, and industry leaders gather in the U.S. capital for the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). The gathering is widely regarded...
Hawai‘i is so rich in natural beauty that in parts of the world its name is shorthand for paradise. But exploring that paradise depends on something far more prosaic: roads. Maintaining them is anything but easy. Sun, salty air, torrential...
Often called the world’s largest machine, the power grid is an engineering marvel that helped supercharge modernity and bring electricity to homes and businesses. Cellular networks come close to the grid in size and importance. They revolutionized communications, banking, transportation,...
Protecting sub-sea level New Orleans from flooding. Building atop the shifting, salt-rich soil in Saudi Arabia. Reviving gold mines mothballed decades ago. These are just some of the challenges that engineers are successfully taking on around the world with help...