For this midwestern city located in Iowa, it all started with a need for accessibility. Sven Peterson, city administrator for Perry, wanted to make sure his rural town of 7,929 people met Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements so that...
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One day a decade ago, when Mark Pittman was a student at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, he got caught in a snarl of traffic caused by a broken traffic light. The...
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The benefits of a walkable city are well known. According to the Climate Reality Project, not only does encouraging pedestrian travel lessen the need for more expensive or carbon-emitting forms of transportation, but walkable cities also promote active living, reduce...
Kaustubh Page, Bentley’s Director of iTwin Platform Management, also contributed to this post. The race to cut carbon in half by 2030 is starting to heat up. According to a recent report by the UN’s World Meteorologist Organization, the world...
Uganda’s Kidepo Valley National Park covers two major river valley systems, the Kidepo and the Narus, creating a prime oasis in the country’s otherwise arid northeastern savanna. Visitors to the park can see some of Africa’s most iconic creatures, including...
TSA – Tecnologia em Saneamento Ambiental (which translates to Technology in Environmental Sanitation in English) has a passion for the betterment of the communities they serve. TSA’s headquarters are in Porto Alegre, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul...
Growing up in a small town in eastern India, we followed the ritual of walking to the nearest hand pump water station twice a day to fill up buckets of drinking water. The alternate water sources were the nearest river...
“I want the face of transportation, leadership and its workforce, to reflect the communities we serve, and we want equity, diversity, and inclusion to become more than buzzwords,” said April Rai, president and CEO of COMTO.Understanding the importance of access...
Every once in a while, I hear someone saying that digitalization (or going digital) is the next big thing in the water industry. Don’t look now but digitalization is here, and it has been here for a few decades. At...
In January, Claire Rutkowski, Senior Vice President and CIO champion, sat down with Scott Seltz, publisher of Engineering News Record for an in-depth conversation about how AEC firms can thrive despite the challenges they face in 2023. Below is a...
