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A century ago, this picturesque Canadian city perched above the wide expanse of the St. Lawrence River gave the world the Québec Bridge. Still in service today, the massive steel bridge with the longest cantilever...
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A century ago, this picturesque Canadian city perched above the wide expanse of the St. Lawrence River gave the world the Québec Bridge. Still in service today, the massive steel bridge with the longest cantilever span in the world was...
When Otto Lynch began his career as a transmission designer in the early 1990s, laying out the 500-kilovolt power loop around Washington, D.C., required a team of 30 engineers and six months of handwritten calculations. Today, Lynch says he could...
Every time you drive over a bridge, turn on a tap for a glass of water, or flip a light switch, you are placing your trust in a complex system of infrastructure. You trust that the engineering was sound, the...
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...
Oliver Thomas spent two decades watching architects struggle with their software—so he started a movement. The British architect, who worked at major global firms before launching his own companies, founded the Archi-Tech Network (ATN), a global community for architects, technologists,...
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...
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,...