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Cities across the United States face challenges in bringing their sewer and stormwater systems up to Environmental Protection Agency standards. The overflow control programs (OCPs) being implemented require time and innovation. Plus: Transportation construction management; interim hospital for tornado-ravaged Joplin, Mo.; world-class military headquarters in Florida; environmental monitoring to keep construction projects in compliance; and SPIDERS — Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security.
Articles In This Issue
In the U.S., municipalities are at a turning point. Their wastewater and stormwater infrastructure is aging — and often unable to keep pace with the demands placed on it.
Technical Q&A: Scaling Up Biorefining
Biorefining is increasingly incorporated into manufacturing portfolios. In order to scale up a pilot to commercial production, you must fully vet and understand the process you plan to use in your biorefining plant.
How It Works: Reauthorization Acts
Pipeline safety regulations were first passed in 1968, and reauthorization acts have continued funding to implement and modify them. Now Congress is reacting strongly to recent piplines incidents.
Safety Corner: Safety at the Forefront of Asbestos Remediation
Although asbestos may seem like a health hazard of the past, it remains one of the most common hazardous materials found in industrial and commercial buildings.
Missouri ACEC Awards Firm Dual Grand Conceptor Awards
The ACEC Missouri Chapter presented its Grand Conceptor Award to two Burns & McDonnell projects, marking the first time it has award dual honors.
Burns & McDonnell Earns ACEC Honors
The Kansas Airspace Awareness Tool and the Thermal Energy Corp. Master Plan Implementation project earned Honor Awards at the 21012 National ACEC Engineering Excellence Gala.
Ray Schieferecke goes where he's needed to build trust and success for clients — big and small.
Transportation Construction Management
For two decades, Burns & McDonnell has provided transportation construction management services and is expanding to work in highly congested urban areas with significant roadway construction.
Cities find innovative ways to implement overflow control programs.
World-Class Headquarters Completes Military Campus
U.S. Central Command Headquarters finishes a $225 million expansion of the unit's Florida campus — the largest military project ever completed by Burns & McDonnell.
Rebuilding Hope Through a New Hospital
St. John's Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo., turned to Burns & McDonnell for help with one of its most critical needs after a deadly tornado struck in May 2011 — building an interim hospital.
Building with Beetles and Birds
Environmental monitors help clients keep construction projects in compliance and moving forward.
SPIDERS: Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security
A new U.S. energy initiative aims to create a resilient, more reliable microgrid designed to protect against extended power outages and enhance electric power surety for national security.
Online Extra: In response to major and sometimes deadly pipeline incidents in recent years, the new Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act of 2011, passed in January 2012, places more stringent regulations on more pipelines across the country.