Five years in, the ASCE Innovation Contest has produced a remarkable legacy of bright ideas and infrastructure solutions.
Among the most successful of success stories is RoadBotics, a Pittsburgh-based company that uses smartphone and artificial intelligence technology to help monitor and maintain infrastructure assets.
At the 2018 ASCE Innovation Contest, RoadBotics earned five honors, including Greatest Impact on Delivering the ASCE Grand Challenge Award.
Two years later,...
THE FULL IMPACT of the COVID-19 global pandemic on the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry will not be known for many years. Yet it is already clear that many construction projects are experiencing partial delays or full stoppages as the pandemic spreads across the globe. In North America, associations and companies have organized surveys and created tools to help the AEC industry better...
In 30 years, the world’s population is expected to reach 9.8 billion. And three-fourths of us – nearly 6.8 billion people – are projected to live in urban areas.
It’s safe to say that transportation engineers have their work cut out for them.
In this episode of the ASCE Interchange, Jeremy Chrzan, P.E., PTOE, LEED AP, M.ASCE, the multimodal design practice lead at Toole Design, discusses...
John Barton, P.E., M.ASCE, serves as HNTB Corporation's national DOT market sector leader and senior vice president. Barton's experience includes nearly 30 years at the Texas Department of Transportation, including his most recent role as deputy executive director.
Today, he shares some of the wisdom born of that experience to outline how he thinks DOTs across the country can streamline their practices.
Defining streamlining
The term streamlining...
