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Sidebar: Secure structures

The Nixon Forensic Center is an interesting combination of a health facility and detention center. The state of Missouri and WSP worked together to provide an environment in which patients would not feel as though they were in a typical incarceration environment. This had to be combined with consideration for the security and safety of patients and staff. Each of the six main living units

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Accelerating through adversity

Some critical civil engineering projects have been completed faster than expected during the pandemic. The culprit? Fewer people on the roads

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Sidebar: Civil support

The design and construction of the new Nixon Forensic Center represented big changes for the site of the new psychiatric hospital—both in terms of the modern facilities that were planned and the changes that were necessary to prepare the physical site for those facilities. Most dramatically, the site featured a 60 ft drop in elevation from its high end on the northeastern edge of the

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Delivering a masterpiece

New York’s new Kosciuzsko Bridge links Brooklyn and Queens, reshaping the skyline of the boroughs it connects

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By engineers, for engineers

The Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence at Toronto’s York University brings together students of civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering in a structure designed with innovation and collaboration in mind

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