Articles by Tom Sawyer

A sewer line project in Doha, Qatar, completed in April on time and within budget, is the first phase of the public works authority’s Doha South Sewage Infrastructure Project.

For the opening stage of an ambitious metro system development project planned to unify all of the railway networks in Qatar by 2030, Madrid-based FCC Construcción built the south portion of one of three lines in the 85- kilometer-long first phase of the program, and three of the first phase’s stations.

Jacobs Engineering’s comprehensive service as EPC contractor on a $700-million pharmaceutical complex for Bristol-Myers Squibb just northwest of Dublin gives it bragging rights for the extremely fast-track 26-month delivery of a facility to begin production of a life-saving anti-cancer drug on schedule, with more such drugs on the horizon.

As Bahamas death toll mounts, engineers and policymakers highlight growing risk from bigger storms

If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration must be its father. For civil engineer Javier Devesa, a highway construction project manager in Washington, D.C., his frustrations with manually planning and filing lane closure requests with the DOT have inspired him to invent a better way.

In Sweden, a partnership between MIPS Corp., a company that specializes in helmet-liner systems for protecting the brain, and Guardio Safety AB, a Swedish industrial safety firm, has led to the release in June of a construction hardhat, or helmet, designed to mitigate brain-damaging forces that often are suffered in construction falls.