A star of the CONEXPO/CON-AGG show in Las Vegas in early March was an unassuming, unbranded mini excavator busily moving dirt around in a corner of the show.
Suthan S. Suthersan, executive vice
president and chief technical officer of
ARCADIS North America, died suddenly on Feb. 20 at age 60 in Yardley, Pa., the company said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named former Ontario pension-fund giant CEO Jim Leech as special adviser to Canada’s newly authorized, but still unlaunched, federal infrastructure bank.
Teams of international researchers are converging on a valley in eastern Portugal this spring to capture granular data on wind moving over rough terrain.
In a recent presentation at a San Francisco conference on optics and photonics, researchers presented papers describing their successful tests of optical data transmission tools, which soon may replace current data centers’ thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables with overhead layer of infrared laser beams, lenses and mirrors.
In today’s world of readily available aerial imagery from satellites and drones, the future of high-resolution aerial imagery taken from manned, fixed-wing aircraft might be questioned, but consumers of all three types of images say there is still a big role for manned-aircraft imaging services.
Applying the appropriate level of engineering effort and resources to accomplish a task exemplifies efficiency and professionalism in the construction industry.
This year’s judges for ENR’s photo contest were shadowed by a machine-learning, artificial-intelligence system being developed to flag safety hazards in construction photos and video.
