Intelligent Infrastructure Systems

09/04/2018

We’re in the home stretch of delivering RABIT-CE™ training to the Federal Highway Administration’s Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Data Collection Contractor! Pictured is some hands-on training at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI)’s Smart Road. Pennoni
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT)

08/02/2018

John Prader is presenting today at 10:40 at the 10th International Conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges in Quebec City. Don’t miss his presentation: Inspection and Monitoring of a Steel Multi-Girder Bridge Following an Extreme Event. Shout out to Pennoni’s Jen Laning and Nathan Buttorff for co-authoring the paper submission! Read more here: https://bit.ly/2LLpdyY
CSCE National Office

07/24/2018

Earlier this month, Jeffrey Purdy attended the Automated Vehicle Symposium in San Francisco. Here is what he had to say: “It is undisputable that Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs) are inevitable and that their impact on transportation will be multifaceted and impacting everyone. This is an exciting time to be a transportation professional to anticipate the transformation of transportation to a service. The future is bright regardless of the challenges to be addressed to get there.”
Read more on the conference here. AUVSI

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06/27/2018

IIS has tested many bridges where the vibrations may seem "abnormal". Measurement data that documents normal vibration responses can go a long way towards quantitatively alleviating such concerns. Read more here.

Clearwater 'bouncing' bridge normal, DOT says

05/18/2018

Pennonii/IIS is on the winning team for the “The Fountain”, the Signature Bridge project in downtown Miami! We were asked to provide structural health monitoring services.

Two rulings were issued recently, which allows the Florida Department of Transportation to proceed with building “The Fountain,” their chosen design for the proposed $802m Signature Bridge project in downtown Miami. In March, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled against former Miami commissi...

04/25/2018

$1.5 B Gerald Desmond Replacement Bridge in Long Beach, CA entering crucial phase as first portion of super structure will be lifted into place.

It will soon be a bridge to somewhere.After years of anticipation—imagining or relying upon renderings of what the Gerald Desmond Replacement Bridge will look like—and seeing the approaches from ea…

04/12/2018

Nathan Dubbs, PE, P Eng, Kirk Grimmelsman, PhD, PE, and Thomas Golecki, PE, SE from Intelligent Infrastructure Systems (IIS) / Pennoni will present at ASCE Structural Engineering Institute’s Structures Congress 2018 next week in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Find out more information here: https://lnkd.in/dN9sSWf

Intelligent Infrastructure Systems works with owners to assess infrastructure using advances in information, sensing and, communication technologies.

04/11/2018

In a move to safeguard the safety of the travelling public, MS Governor Phil Bryant declares a state of emergency that orders the MDOT to immediately close 83 city and county bridges that have been judged deficient.

Closures to impact bridges in over a dozen counties

04/10/2018

Delaware Department of Transportation has tentatively settled what was a $89-million lawsuit with DuPont and three other companies for I-495 repairs.

After months of negotiations, the Delaware Department of Transportation has tentatively settled an $89 million dispute with DuPont and three other companies over the costs of emergency repairs to its Interstate-495 bridge over the Christina River, near Wilmington.

03/23/2018

Congratulations to MDOT State Bridge Inspection Manager, Richard Withers who oversees the State's bridge inspection, load rating, and bridge permitting programs for his recognition as MS Engineering Society’s Government Engineer of the Year.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation’s State Bridge Inspection Manager was recently honored as the Mississippi Engineering Society’s Government Engineer of the Year.

03/20/2018

Intelligent Infrastructure Systems' John Prader, PhD, PE will present Structural Health Monitoring – Technology’s Role in Preserving and Renewing Infrastructure at the Engineers’ Club of Philadelphia Multi-Topic Presentation and Happy Hour Event on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.

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John Prader, PhD, PE will present Structural Health Monitoring – Technology’s Role in Preserving and Renewing Infrastructure at Engineers’ Club of Philadelphia Multi-Topic Presentation and Happy Hour Event on Tuesday, March 27, 2018

03/08/2018

Thomas Golecki, PE, SE from Intelligent Infrastructure Systems (IIS) recently discussed Automating Refined Load Ratings for Girder Bridges at Federal Highway Administration Bridge Load Rating Webinar Series.

You can find out more about our Refined Load Rating process and view Tom's presentation at: https://lnkd.in/gtVTbCb

Refined load ratings improve on traditional approximate (single line girder) methods by using a finite element model of a bridge to compute member demands. This model is not subject to assumed distribution factors, rather member demands are distributed within the models’ elements according to thei...