WSP’s global structures leader leaves behind a résumé of innovative buildings and young engineers he mentored as he enters semiretirement

Getting machine learning and artificial intelligence to work for construction is often a matter of finding where it would be most useful.

After delays that threatened to push the project into 2021, the City of New Orleans announced on Jan. 17 that the partially collapsed structure of the unfinished, 18-story Hard Rock Hotel will be brought down in a controlled demolition in late March, under a new plan to be submitted by demolition contractor D.H. Griffin Cos.

Thornton Tomasetti celebrated its 70th anniversary Sept. 26.

The underlying causes of the trouble at San Francisco’s 4.5-block-long Salesforce Transit Center are coming into focus.

In Bangalore, India, an EPC contractor is wrapping up a 13-month-long project to build a $112-million, 10-story, 621,000-sq-ft office building for an undisclosed client.

Pushing the limits of additive-manufacturing processes, 3D-printing startup Branch Technology recently completed installation of a bandshell in Nashville, Tenn., that it says is the largest 3D-printed structure in the world.

Structural engineer traces R&D obsession to its early roots as it anticipates big ROIs on itself and the industry.