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Volaree Rendon’s career in civil engineering started with a crush. A straight-A high school student in Seattle, Rendon earned enough credits to spend part of her junior and senior years at a local vocational technical...
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Ever since she was a little girl in Canada, in the early aughts, Geneviève “Gen” Taurand loved math and technology. “I became fascinated with all of the new types of cellphones that were coming out,” Taurand said. “It amazed me...
Having a solid plan and the ability to assess risk while preparing to enter uncharted waters has helped Steve Ross become a successful scuba diver. The same skills guide him when he changes from his wetsuit into a suit and...
I love my adopted City of London. English poet John Davidson described it far better than I can in the final verse of his poem ‘London’, written over 125 years ago: The parks, the squares, the thoroughfares,The million-peopled lanes and...
In the ever-evolving landscape of the global infrastructure sector, the journey to the future is defined by digital transformation, and infrastructure digital twins are playing the leading role. Squeezed between a resource capacity gap and growing demand, the sector...
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) concluded last month after 14 days of negotiations. While opinions on its success may vary, I view the outcomes of COP28 as a historic and significant stride towards achieving net zero by 2050....
At Bentley, we have always valued the diversity, creativity, and innovation that come from collaborating across global teams, geographies, and backgrounds. We recognize that over the past three and a half years, the world of work has rapidly changed, and...
The last few decades have been largely defined by the digital revolution. Personal computing has evolved from basic gaming and word processing on a monochrome display, to journeying to distant websites and databases on an early version of the internet,...