Infrastructure professionals are quickly catching on to the significant gains that can be realized by digital twins with more than half of all large industrial companies expected to use digital twins in some form by 2021. The concept of an infrastructure digital…
Change Leader Full Interview: Smart Engineering and Infrastructure Funding Desperately Needed
Barry B. LePatner is the author of Too Big to Fall: America’s Failing Infrastructure and the Way Forward. He is founder of the New York City-based…
Letters from Smart Engineering 2021 Issue
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Future Forward Full Interview: Lobbying for the Future of Engineering
Linda Bauer Darr is president and CEO of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). V1 Media: Please briefly summarize the ACEC, what it does, as well as your role in the organization. Darr: The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)…
How to Manage Routine Maintenance Work on a Busy Construction Site
With multiple contractors and disciplines working separately yet simultaneously, a construction site can be a hectic place. It can be difficult for a construction manager to keep up with everything that’s happening, including budget, schedule adherence,…
Dubai: Mapping the Smart Path to Happiness
The city of Dubai takes its smartness and its happiness very seriously. In fact, happiness is the stated end goal of all the ambitious and clever initiatives the city launched since the start of its Smart Dubai program in 2013. The all-encompassing strategy…
Automation Is Coming to Your CMT Lab
In the field, technicians sample fresh concrete and cast cylinders to cure in the testing lab. Specimens tagged by hand. Results written on clipboards. Data entered, line by painstaking line. Materials testing has always been overly manual. Then COVID-19…
Digital Twins: Cutting Through the Hype From Concept to Operations
A digital twin of a pump room and its operations dashboard. (KCI Technologies, Inc.) The Future, Now In a brand-new highrise office building in the heart of Chicago, a facility-maintenance manager gets a notice on her cellphone that a pump is operating…
Future Forward: Lobbying for the Future of Engineering
Linda Bauer Darr is president and CEO of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). The ACEC represents approximately 5,500 firms, associations and organizations in the civil engineering and infrastructure space. It works to market its…
Code Update: Updates to ACI 301-20: Specifications for Concrete Construction
In October 2020, the American Concrete Institute (ACI) published ACI 301-20: “Specifications for Concrete Construction,” which expanded and revised many of the requirements in previous versions of the standard. A notable change was the specification’s…
