Design firm owner, ahead of her time in promoting wider use of new techniques and technologies and more recognition of women professionals, died on Oct. 1 in Branford, Conn.
As manufacturing facilities for everything from electric vehicle components to the crystalline photovoltaic wafers in solar panels are funded by government incentive as well as private investment, design firms are being called on to redesign production processes dependent on the materials and regulations that long-favored overseas manufacturing.
Punch-listing and testing acoustics and movable parts at the World Trade Center venue, with three flexible halls that have more than 60 configurations, was like fine-tuning a Swiss watch.
The firms will plan the replacement or rehabilitation of nearly 100 bridges and other structures along a 6-mile stretch of Chicago's south side where more than 100 trans from six rail lines meet daily.