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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,...
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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...
Artificial intelligence is beginning to change the daily work of civil and structural engineers. But where do AI capabilities actually stand in the industry? More than 1,000 engineers from around the world recently gathered for a Bentley Systems event to...
Standing in her home on a leafy Dublin street, Liana O’Cleirigh sees what anyone else would: a red-brown armchair, a desk, and a window view of a neatly trimmed front lawn and the occasional passerby. Then there’s the 3D model...
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...
In 2032, Poland will open Port Polska, a single multimodal transit hub that neatly ties together a massive infrastructure package, including an airport that will ultimately handle 60 million passengers per year; roughly 500 kilometers of new high-speed rail linking...
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...