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When visitors come to Quebec City, Louis-Martin Losier likes to show them the Quebec Bridge. Losier works on design software at Bentley Systems, the global tech giant developing solutions for infrastructure engineers, and the bridge...
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When visitors come to Quebec City, Louis-Martin Losier likes to show them the Quebec Bridge. Losier works on design software at Bentley Systems, the global tech giant developing solutions for infrastructure engineers, and the bridge is a marvel of his...
Philippe Block stood on stage inside the cavernous Truman Brewery in London’s hip Brick Lane district. It was a warm Friday evening in mid-July, prime pub hours in this corner of East London. Yet architects, founders, students, and curious visitors...
Louis-Martin Losier watched as a transparent box full of delicate gears turned, and in turn recreated the motions of the cosmos. Mercury rushed around its orbit, Saturn barely crawled, and the Sun circled the Earth, like clockwork. He was running...
Look at a vacant lot in a growing or desirable location, and you may be looking at a problem. The easiest parcels have already been developed. What remains are sites with unusual topography, drainage challenges, or buried infrastructure that complicates...
Bentley Systems is opening a regional headquarters in Tokyo and plans to more than double its workforce in Japan over the next three years. Bentley (NASDAQ: BSY), which makes engineering software used around the world to design, build, and operate...
When Hurricane Sandy struck New York City in 2012, nature exposed the fragility of one of the world’s greatest cities. The storm flooded a critical power station and knocked out electricity across a large section of Manhattan. In neighborhoods throughout...
The Gulf of Mexico is coming for New Orleans, and the global infrastructure sector is paying attention. Roughly 125,000 years ago, the shoreline sat about 30 miles north of the city. Recent research predicts that rising seas could push the...
A road sign clipped by a passing truck shouldn’t be hard to replace, but the reality is not so simple. The maintenance crew is often left guessing: What were the sign’s dimensions, its federal code, the grade of reflective film...
There is a cost that does not appear on your project budgets. It does not show up in your maintenance accounts. It is not captured in your risk registers. And yet it compounds, quietly, with every capital project your organization...
In the Swiss Alpine village of Mulegns, a bone-white tower rises 30 meters from the valley floor. Skeletal in its design, Tor Alva is the tallest 3D-printed structure in the world—each component fabricated by robots in Zurich, then trucked 175...