Informed Infrastructure Podcast

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Anthony Casciano, President and CEO of Siemens Financial Services Inc., via webcam.

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Jasper Shi, Senior Analyst, Energy and Natural Resource Ratings for Morningstar DBRS, via webcam.

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Apoorv Sinha, Co-Founder and CEO of Carbon Upcycling, via webcam.

Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure, interviews Seth Guthrie, P.E., S.E., director of product management for Structural Engineering products at Bentley Systems; and Geoff McDonald, senior product manager for Offshore Structural Engineering products at Bentley Systems.

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Frances Yarbrough, civil engineer and director of the SeamonWhiteside (SW+) Charlotte office, via webcam.

Amy Bunszel Executive Vice President, Architecture, Engineering and Construction Solutions

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Dr. Dominique Meyer, CEO and Co-Founder of Looq AI, on Feb. 12, 2024, at the GeoWeek Conference in Denver. The conversation included background information on Looq AI and how it’s attempting to automate the creation of digital twins as well as how it uses LiMAR (light matching and reconstruction) technology.

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Marc Goldman, director of AEC Industry Solutions for Esri, on Feb. 11, 2024, at the GeoWeek Conference in Denver. They discussed the “built world” and the role of geospatial technologies in the AEC community.

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Dr. Este Geraghty, the Chief Medical Officer at Esri, on Feb. 11, 2024, at the GeoWeek Conference in Denver. Before delivering her keynote speech the next day, she discussed topics such as how geospatial technology is crucial in the health and human services industries as well as how they can unlock the full potential of ava...

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Tiffany Gispanski, Schneider Electric’s national software strategic pursuits leader for the water/wastewater industry.

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Dale Crawford, the executive director of the Steel Tube Institute (STI) as well as director of its Conduit Committee.

Many structural engineers are looking for greater safety, resiliency, and economy in design. To serve these needs, Bentley Systems recently acquired ADINA nonlinear finite element analysis software. ADINA expands the range of problems where Bentley engineering applications can be applied, making advanced analysis accessible to all. Seth Guthrie, Director of Structural Product Management, shares ho...

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Tawkiyah Jordan, senior director of housing and community strategy, Habitat for Humanity International.

A  previous podcast  discussed how small businesses could utilize Virtuosity, a Bentley Company, to grow your business, qualify for DOT subcontracts, or improve workflows for your current workload. 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 i...

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure’s editorial director, interviewed Tony Kirby, Arup’s Los Angeles Infrastructure Practice Leader.

Hydraulic modeling is not new to the water industry; however, recent industry influences have resulted in utilities expanding use of modeling software: 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...

Traditionally, many have viewed Bentley software as a solution for large organizations and megaprojects.  Until now many small businesses believed that their projects were too small for the same technology and that the cost was unsustainable for their business model.  Bentley’s transportation software was developed by engineers to improve road projects both small and large and Virtuosity, a Bentle...

Recently, Bentley Systems announced the acquisition of transportation modeling and Mobility Simulation Leader INRO Software to enable digital cities to simulate multimodal transportation scenarios, and model resilience and sustainability outcomes in mobility digital twins. Combining the capabilities of INRO’s advanced traffic and vehicle simulation with Bentley’s passenger and pedestrian simulatio...

Infrastructure professionals are quickly catching on to the significant gains that can be realized by digital twins with more than half of all large industrial companies expected to use digital twins in some form by 2021. 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 t...

Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) David Wright, GIS Manager, City of Atlanta, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport

Greater Salt Lake Municipal Services District (MSD) Marie Schleicher, GIS Analyst Matthew Starley, Long Range Planner James Burton, Senior GIS Analyst

National Energy Technology Laboratory Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Pipeline Route Planning Database Jennifer Bauer, Geo-data Scientist, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Nitin Bhandari, the co-founder and CEO of Planera, via webcam.

Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Ryan McMahon, the director and general manager of Informed Design at Autodesk, via webcam.

New Technology Can Help Fix the Broken Infrastructure Design Process