Informed Infrastructure

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission carefully conducted a controlled demolition of the largest center span of the old Hawk Falls Bridge The PA Turnpike successfully demolished the center span of the old Hawk Falls Bridge in Carbon County as part of an $88 million replacement project. Crews strategically separated the steel truss at five locations, allowing it to fall 150–220 feet into Mud Run Gorge. Traffic was temporarily stopped and resumed within minutes.

Right: Charleston office leadership, from left to right: Don Zimmerman, Craig Buck, Gregory Hudson, Beth Crutchfield, Dave Crutchfield, Raquel Deschler, Michael Scruggs CHARLESTON, S.C. — RMF Engineering, a leader in full-service MEP engineering, is proud to be named on the SC Biz 2026 Best Places to Work in South Carolina, a research-driven awards program recognizing outstanding employers creating exceptional workplace experiences across South Carolina.

Hawthorne, N.J. (October 5, 2026): The program is available for DFI’s 51st Annual Conference (DFI51), November 2–5, 2026, in Orlando, Florida. The conference opens with a plenary session based on the conference theme, Sea Level Impacts: Navigating Challenges Together.

Harbert Power is excited to announce its acquisition of Papago Storage, a 300 MW battery energy storage project in Maricopa County, Arizona, and one of the largest battery energy storage projects in the state. Papago expands Harbert Power’s battery storage presence in Arizona. Earlier this year, the team announced the commencement of commercial operation at Justice Battery Energy Storage, a 150 MW project in the same county.

ROCKLAND, MA – October 8, 2026 – Gale Associates, Inc. has been selected to provide on-call engineering services for Martha’s Vineyard Airport in West Tisbury, Massachusetts. Through the agreement, Gale’s Airport Engineering & Planning Group will support the airport’s infrastructure needs and capital improvement priorities as assignments are identified.

Stockholm, Sweden – 9 October 2026 – Hexagon AB today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Rocscience, a leading provider of geotechnical and engineering analysis software, from TA Associates and Rocscience’s founders and management. Rocscience will become part of the Radar & Monitoring Division within Hexagon’s Infrastructure & Geospatial Business Area.

The initiative will explore national expansion of quality, resilient home construction through factory-built, industrialized means and methods WASHINGTON, D.C. October 7, 2026– The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to support a new initiative to expand the utilization of factory-built construction for multifamily housing.

Accelerates Intermap’s technology roadmap into distributed edge processing and microservices, extending proven and secure AI/ML analytics across thousands of autonomous geospatial workflows Doubles recurring revenue, opening new commercialization pathways for Intermap’s AI/ML-driven image processing and downstream products, including solution enhancements for 30,000+ existing licenses in the commercial space market Speeds delivery of decision-ready intelligence throughout Intermap’s...

New web-based platform brings transportation design and collaboration together in one connected environment. [Vancouver, BC, Canada] — Transoft Solutions, a global leader in transportation engineering software and road safety solutions, has launched InSTRATO, a new web-based platform for transportation engineers, planners, and designers.

Bentley Systems announced the winners of the 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards on October 7, 2026 (Photo courtesy of Bentley Systems) New cycle of AI-enabled innovation is helping engineers solve harder problems faster SINGAPORE – (The Bentley Systems 2026 Year in Infrastructure Event) – October 7, 2026 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced the winners of the 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards.