HOK looms large in the memory of Bill Johnson—the architect for the daring New Atlanta Stadium—as having set inadvertently, yet fortuitously, his career path.
Photo Courtesy of WindEEE Research Institute Hexagonal wind chamber is designed to produce tornadoes using its 106 individually controllable fans and adjustable floor. Related Links: Researchers Generate Tornadoes On Demand The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2014 When crossing the border of Colorado and Wyoming in his truck, Horia Hangan once found himself in the eye of a tornado. "Because nobody talks about tornadoes in winter, I think it was classified as a high-intensity storm," says Hangan. He says it was one of his scariest drives, with icy roads and cars and trucks being tossed into ditches around him. Somehow, he
A kid's biology book, devoured when Christine Sheppard was 8 years old, tweaked her interest in science. A professor who helped reestablish the peregrine falcon on the East Coast opened the graduate student's eyes to environmental bird threats.
For Denis Hayes, the journey to a leadership role in the environmental movement has been informed by childhood trauma, youthful disillusionment and an epiphany.
Over the past three decades, Jim Wiethorn has investigated hundreds of crane accidents and generated a mountain of data on what causes lifting machines to fail.
John J. Struzziery knew it wasn't going to be easy to design a solution for Cambridge, Mass., to meet mandated federal water-quality upgrades and stormwater-runoff control in a tight, state-owned urban space.
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