They discussed how Arup's digital team collaborates with subject matter experts (SMEs) and clients to solve challenges using a suite of applications based on ArcGIS infrastructure. Ubhi goes into specific details of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension (ECWE) transit project in Toronto.

They discussed how the City of Altamonte Springs is redefining urban management with a dynamic, photo-realistic 3D digital twin of Cranes Roost Park.

They discussed how DFW International airport uses digital models to advance asset data collection, real-time visualization, analytics and proactive maintenance to drive efficiency and foster cross-departmental collaboration in an ever-changing environment. 

The discussion focuses on the technologies that are making digital twins a vital tool for all aspects of utility asset management.

The discussion focuses on the technologies that are making digital twins a vital tool for all aspects of utility asset management.

Learn approaches for securing longer service lives from wastewater infrastructure assets to help stretch municipal budgets by selecting the right coating materials for new constructions and rehabilitations. We discuss the importance of getting the materials–and the applications–right as well as how working directly with qualified suppliers and certified applicators can mean the difference between realizing long service lives or encountering premature deterioration and early repairs.

The interview covers important considerations for installations and rehabilitations, from specification to surface prep to coatings applications to final holiday testing. It also notes the importance of working with trained and certified crews and how the Sherwin-Williams Certified Applicator Program (CAP) helps ensure applicators can deliver improved reliability, minimized maintenance and extended service lives for critical infrastructure assets.

They had a wide ranging and detailed discussion of bridge engineering, including the fragile state of U.S. bridges, how engineers can help improve the situation, and some of the latest and most-useful bridge technology as well as how Alvi has used them throughout his extensive career. 

Every bridge engineer should listen to this conversation.

They discussed the emerging Career and Technical Education (CTE) space that’s trying to develop a pipeline for much-needed new engineers.

Use the following link to contact PERENfra about The Fund: https://perenfra.com/contact/.

This follows an interview conducted exactly one year ago at GeoWeek 2024, below, which discussed the “built world” and the role of geospatial technologies in the AEC community.

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Sivan Zamir, vice president of innovation & corporate venture at Xylem and leader of Xylem Innovation Labs, the company’s venture arm.

Executive Vice President, Architecture, Engineering and Construction Solutions

Seth Guthrie, Director of Structural Product Management, shares how leveraging the analytical power of ADINA software can help you perform more flexible analysis of your nonlinear systems.

This follow-up podcast, also featuring Bentley’s Senior Industry Strategy Manager David Settlemyer, focuses on Disadvantaged Business Enterprises and how they can take advantage of the massive funding in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

• COVID has changed the game for many industries and their workforce, and this has had an impact on water utilities and the experts who serve them.
• Water utilities are able to use software to operate smarter, in terms of both saving operational time and expense as well as preparing for anomalies and emergencies.
• The “brain drain” of retiring workforce can result in lost expertise about how the water system responds to operational stresses and where vulnerabilities exist.
• You do not have to be an expert in hydraulic modeling to gain value from a hydraulic model.

In this podcast, Todd Danielson, the editorial director for Informed Infrastructure, interviews Joel Johnson, Manager of Engineering for Water, Wastewater and Stormwater for Bentley Systems; and Angela Suarez, Product Consultant for the OpenFlows product line at Bentley Systems.

Whether you are looking to grow your business, qualify for DOT subcontracts, or simply improve workflows for your current workload, join this podcast to learn more.  Listen as Senior Industry Strategy Manager David Settlemyer discusses his small business background and how Bentley and Virtuosity will help your small business sustain long term stability.

This podcast session will unpack the application capabilities for transportation planning including the pains that each of these applications address for its users. And we unpack this very advanced topic of mobility digital twins, including the need to be multimodal, having detailed dynamic traffic assignments and agent-based methods for veracity, and the need to scale up to systemwide and regionwide—and much more.

Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure, interviews Bentley Systems’ Michael Clarke, senior director of Mobility Analytics, and Daniel Florian, senior director of Mobility Modeling.

The concept of an infrastructure digital twin is simple. If you have a physical asset and a digital asset that can represent everything in the physical asset, you can join them together, then use the digital asset to understand what is happening with the physical asset in the real world. But the data required to create a digital twin lives in different data repositories, by different vendors and in incompatible formats, and is constantly changing. To aggregate and visualize this data is no easy task. And that’s where open platforms become part of the conversation.

Listen as Bentley Systems’ Adam Klatzkin, VP, iTwin Platform and Sheena Gaynes, Director, Business Development, talk with Todd Danielson, editorial director at Informed Infrastructure, about the Bentley iTwin Platform and how you can get started.

Marie Schleicher, GIS Analyst

Matthew Starley, Long Range Planner

James Burton, Senior GIS Analyst

This follow-up podcast, also featuring Bentley’s Senior Industry Strategy Manager David Settlemyer, focuses on Disadvantaged Business Enterprises and how they can take advantage of the massive funding in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

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