Insights from Pennoni: How OpenSite+ Is Changing Site Design As a child, Joe Viscuso, senior vice president and director of strategic growth at Pennoni, was always interested in building things, which led him to a career in civil engineering. Over...
Todd Danielson, editorial director of Informed Infrastructure, sat down with Geoff McDonald, senior product manager for offshore structural engineering products; and Seth Guthrie, P.E., S.E., director of product management for structural engineering, to discuss advancements in offshore structural products. They...
Project Building and transporting heavy platform jackets is a complex process under normal conditions. However, Sapura Energy Berhad had just one year to build three jackets in Malaysia and transport them to Al Shaheed Field, Quatar’s largest offshore oil field....
An important step in selecting pumps is developing the system head curve, which gives the head needed to move various flow rates through a pumped system. The shape of this curve depends on The lift to be provided between tank...
If you pick up most water-related journals these days, it seems as if half the papers are devoted to applying some optimization techniques to solve some real problem. However, almost none of these methods actually find their way into water...
Flow control valve (FCV) elements are the most abused elements in WaterGEMS/WaterCAD. If I had my way, I would eliminate them as model elements. In the many years I have been working with water and wastewater systems, I can’t recall...
One of the more common questions I get is, “What is the target velocity I should achieve when I’m flushing a water main?” As with most questions I’m asked, the initial response is, “It depends. Why are you flushing in...