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Try The Visualization The American story is, at heart, a building story. It’s 250 years of believing that what looked impossible was merely difficult. Crews strung bridges across straits deemed uncrossable, raised towers that shattered...
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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...
Digital twins have quietly become one of the most consequential technologies shaping modern infrastructure and industry. Yet formal training in how they are designed, deployed, and evaluated has lagged behind their adoption. Louisiana State University is aiming to close that...
This December, the crowds at Berlin’s Christmas markets will be admiring more than the festive stalls and delicious Glühwein. With over 500 infrastructure professionals in town for the Bentley Tech Summit 2025 (BTS25), the city’s bridges, stations, tunnels, and trams...
How can a city keep first responders safe? Which streets are more prone to fires and flooding? How much rain keeps cyclists off the roads? How often do city dwellers really use walking paths? For cities eager to improve their...
Jack Kavanagh is leading an effort to make municipal data work harder. As the open data lead at Smart Dublin, a joint initiative of the Irish capital’s four local authorities, Kavanagh manages a portal that consolidates public datasets ranging from...
What makes a city smart? For Luke Antoniou, senior editor at SmartCitiesWorld, it’s using data and technology to improve how people live, work, and move through urban spaces. We caught up with Antoniou in Dublin in May at the first...
Tomas Ward isn’t your typical computer science professor. A self-described “noob,” Ward heads up data analytics at the School of Computing at Dublin City University and serves as site director of Insight, one of Ireland’s largest AI research centers. But...
At Google AI for the Planet, an event recently held during London Climate Action Week in the British capital, Google’s global leaders in sustainability came together to explore a pressing question: How can artificial intelligence (AI) help us create a...
Straight lines may be efficient, but in Barcelona, they’re practically a provocation. The chaotic and curvy forms of the city’s iconic buildings are now part of its identity — from the jagged columns of La Sagrada Familia, which stretch heavenward...
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...