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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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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...
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...