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How Smart-Water Technology Is Helping Solve the Water Crisis—One Drop at a Time

Places all over the world are running out of water. Large swaths of South Africa, Brazil, India, and Australia—17 countries in all, representing a quarter of the world’s people—face “extremely high”...

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Modular Bridges Provide On-Demand Infrastructure for Disaster Relief

Invented in 1936 by civil servant and novice bridge designer Donald Bailey and pressed into service during World War II, the Bailey Bridge was critical to sustaining the pace of Allied advances in...

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Railroad Design Chugs Along Faster and Wins Over Neighbors With VR, GIS, and BIM

Throughout his career, Mantas Smidtas—a technology leader at global engineering, design, and consultancy firm Ramboll—has learned some important lessons about how to quell public concerns while...

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Brazilian Army Battles Pollution in Rio’s Toxic Guanabara Bay Using BIM

There’s something in the water in Brazil—lots of things, actually. In the Amazon River, pink dolphins, giant otters, electric eels, enormous anacondas, and knife-toothed piranhas are present. But the...

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10 Best Practices to Support a Remote Workforce—and Ease Stress—During COVID-19

Seemingly overnight, an unexpected and unprecedented crisis hit the world: The coronavirus known as COVID-19 spread from country to country, leaving public and private sectors to scramble for solutions...

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BIM for All: Brazilian Construction Company Champions Industry Transformation

As COVID-19 continues to keep people around the world close to home (and, in many cases, sheltering in place), thoughts of travel and adventure are just a dream—for now. But at some point in the...

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4 Tips to Administer PPP Funds and Relieve Fears About Loan Forgiveness

As COVID-19 shut down the nation during the first half of 2020, the US government responded with the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, a stimulus package designed to inject...

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Connected Construction: Redefining the Built World Through Collaboration...

The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry has traditionally been anything but connected. If you work in the industry, you’re all too familiar with the impact of disconnected...

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Auckland Public Transport Project Lays Digital Tracks to the Future

When considering the impact of coronavirus on various sectors around the world, one industry that will undoubtedly face some tough challenges is public transportation. A mainstay of cities worldwide,...

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Tech Leadership in the Next Normal: Prakash Kota on Returning to the Workplace

Autodesk CIO Prakash Kota heads a workforce of more than 1,000 people in 21 countries around the globe. In the past four months, Kota and his team have spoken with hundreds of customers and employees...

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What’s Good Failure? 5 Things Research Scientists Reveal About Business...

In research, goals are often amorphous. Work doesn’t follow the traditional business sequence of setting time-based objectives. Instead, innovative products require open-ended exploration and...

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Digitizing the Eiffel Tower: Inside the World’s Largest Urban 3D Model

Since the invention of photography, the Eiffel Tower has been immortalized from every angle—a symbol of Paris around the world. Thanks to BIM (Building Information Modeling), this collective memory of...

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6 Reasons Why Returning to the Workplace Doesn’t Mean Discarding Desks

As companies strategize returning to the workplace, I’ve heard leaders across many industries express the idea that returning means removing half of the desks. That sounds straightforward: Fewer desks...

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Location, Location, Relocation: Swedish Town in the Arctic Is Moving—Literally

Winters in windswept northern Sweden are cold and dark, with Arctic storms posing a constant challenge to daily life. Below the earth’s surface, however, lies a highly sought-after resource: one of the...

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Why It’s Important to Walk the Talk: 3 Brand Truths for Business Success

The world is living through a cataclysmic change moment—one that leads people to talk about life in “before/after” terms. Things are shaping up so differently in the aftermath that there’s a clear...

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Indonesia Has a Bold Infrastructure Plan—and Is Using 5D BIM to Drive It

In 2019, Indonesia laid out an ambitious plan to invest $412 billion in its infrastructure. By dedicating funds to numerous projects—from roads, bridges, highways, and dams to ports, airports, power...

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Paving a Path Toward Infrastructure Improvements Through Unlikely Alliances

When Zach Schafer, CEO and executive director of United for Infrastructure (UFI), talks about the nonprofit’s name, he focuses on the word united: His mission is to build “partnerships across business,...

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Fix Those Pipes! Water Infrastructure Is Key to a Fast-Flowing Industrial...

The hubs of American manufacturing—from shop floors and assembly lines to high-tech labs and chemical facilities—are connected by webs of rail, roads, and electrical power. In the popular imagination,...

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Could Public-Private Partnership in Infrastructure Development Build Resiliency?

At a time when partisan gridlock characterizes almost every American political issue, infrastructure projects occupy a rare nonpartisan space of near-universal enthusiasm. Often the unbuilt bridge...

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Eyeing the C-Suite? Carve Out an Executive Career Path With Strategy

The road to the C-suite is typically paved with zigs and zags, including a number of lateral moves that enable leaders to gain experience across several organizations. So how does a person map an...

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