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2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement: Water/Stormwater

Civil + Structural Engineer

Design enhancements for the new structure included installing a sharp-crested, straight drop principal spillway, training/retraining walls, grading, native stone rock riprap and stream enhancements. C Below, Inc., Terracon Consultants, Inc.,

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Bagnell Dam

Civil + Structural Engineer

A new $52 million stabilization project began in 2017 adding 27 new high capacity post-tensioned anchors in the dam’s west retaining section, 33 anchors in the spillway, and eight anchors in the east retaining section. SCS provides a load-bearing structure for supporting single-sided, non-tied, or two-sided, anchored wall formwork.

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DFI Announces 2023 Outstanding Project Award Winner

Civil + Structural Engineer

This project ranks among the largest Thornton Tomasetti has designed for a tied back soldier pile and lagging system and is the most complex with regards to numbers and complexity of tieback installation. “We Its 65 ft (20 m) deep perimeter foundation wall system presented many challenges. vice president, Thornton Tomasetti.

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Commercial Construction Trends: Highs and Lows of 2017

Commercial Construction Blog

As we close in on the final days of 2017, it’s time once again for our annual commercial construction blog post reflecting back on the positives – and the negatives – that have impacted our business and the industry as a whole over the last 12 months. Low – The Labor Shortage: It’s Real, and It’s Not Going Away.

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2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement: Transportation & Infrastructure

Civil + Structural Engineer

It features elements that maximize the safety, security, and efficiency of the travel process including 100 percent automated screening lanes, 100 percent facial recognition “e-gates” for international departure, an innovative landside terminal design, and 100 percent trackable RFID Independent Carrier System.

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Revit 2017 - New Features and Enhancements

Revit OpEd

Last night I was able to download and install Building Design Suite 2017 from my Autodesk subscription account. With little fanfare Revit 2017 is here, brandishing a slightly changed big R logo. We'll see a need for upgrading from 2016 to 2017 files but not from 2016 to 2016 R2 files. Long Post Warning, worth it I hope.

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Simpson Strong-Tie Participates in 7.7 Moment Magnitude Earthquake Test of 10-Story Mass Timber Building

Civil + Structural Engineer

Mass timber is part of a massive trend in architecture and construction, but the seismic performance of tall buildings made with these new systems is not as well understood as other existing building systems,” says Shiling Pei, principal investigator and associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado School of Mines.