Experts

Limiting vehicles or adding new surface-level roads to relieve traffic congestion are solutions that create their own problems. Two scientists at England's University of Nottingham are proposing a different idea in the form of deep roads created from shallow,...

How subcontractors can mitigate risk in their contracts At a risk management seminar in Ottawa in late February, Dan Leduc, a partner at the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright LLP outlined several different ways in which trade contractors might simply use the contracts...

New CEOs often hear two conflicting messages: first, get out of the gate quickly because your honeymoon will be short and you need to show results; second, play for the long haul. Can you do both? The answer is yes, but it’s hard, and the results can be bittersweet....

Like any hashtag or social media movement with its incessant buzzwords, one can’t help but keep hearing about the idea of device or digital “detoxing.” As if cleanses laced with cayenne aren’t enough, now we have to take a long hard look at our digital behaviors. And...

Many construction companies who market their services throughout the industry generally make three promises – they work safely, on time and on budget. But if everyone is claiming the same strengths, how can anyone tell different companies apart? The answer, is through...

Design and planning experts gathered on campus to take up the challenge of preparing for climate change. No doubt, the climate is changing. Yet uncertainty lies in predicting precisely how those changes will affect individual communities, cities, and natural...

One of the common complaints you’ll see today is executives saying how there isn’t enough talent out there, not enough people with the right skills or even the willingness to learn. They say that people -- almost always “young people” -- are too eager to jump...

A quarter century has passed, but David Miller will never forget the sound.It was like there was a freight train under my house,” he said, recalling the moment 25 years ago Thursday, Jan. 17, when the Earth’s plates suddenly slipped along a previously unknown fault 11...

Earning an infrastructure report card rating of D+ should be a wake-up call for the United States. At this point, everyone knows that our nation’s infrastructure is failing, and for those of us who work every day in markets like roads and bridges, water systems and...