In 2009, the construction and engineering industry was in a freefall, yet Kim Shinn, the chief sustainability consultant with TLC Engineering for Architecture, was focused on a much smaller problem: How to give a presentation that wouldn’t put his audience to sleep.
A series of demonstration projects, which will complete at the end of 2016, will set the stage for a project to restore water quality in more than 300 canals in the Florida Keys, with a conceptual cost estimate of between $300 million and $600 million.
From its humble beginnings in 1967, when construction teams were mustered at the owner’s home, to being ranked 254th on ENR’s Top 400 Contractors list in 2015, Indianapolis contractor Bowen Engineering Corp. has grown strategically while playing to its strengths.
Process-industry engineering and construction firms can save significant amounts of time and money, optimize process designs, gain access to thousands of analyses of global production and property databases and achieve significant competitive advantage through the use of model-based software applications for modular process design
Piling works on the 319-meter-high Australia 108 tower, which is set to become the tallest residential building in the southern hemisphere, passed a milestone mid-February with a 175-cu-m concrete pour, the project’s biggest to date.
From buildings to bridges, the built environment would benefit from a stronger design collaboration between structural engineers and geotechnical engineers.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. (LACSD) accused two phony engineers of using stolen software to forge the engineering seal and signature of a former employer.