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INSIGHTS, UPDATES & PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
THIS MONTH IN ENGINEERING | October 1904 — when New York went underground
In 1904, New York City opened its first subway line, a 9.1-mile system from City Hall to Harlem that carried 100,000 people on its very...
Rebeka Zubac
Sep 29
THIS MONTH IN ENGINEERING | September 1872 – When Buildings Learned to Fight Fire
We last looked at fire in July, when tragedy forced change. This month, we return to fire, not for disaster, but for invention. The...
Rebeka Zubac
Sep 22
THIS MONTH IN ENGINEERING | September 1987 – When Buildings Became Data
In September 1987, computer scientist Charles Eastman published one of the first papers outlining the concept of Building Information...
Rebeka Zubac
Sep 8
THIS MONTH IN ENGINEERING | September 1975 - When the Systems Break Down, the Building Goes With It
In September 1975, the last tower of St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe housing development was demolished. Once celebrated as a bold new model for...
Rebeka Zubac
Sep 1
THIS MONTH IN ENGINEERING | August 1880 — St Petersburg’s Electric Experiment
St. Petersburg, known through history as Petrograd and later Leningrad is often called Europe’s most beautiful city. Peter the Great...
Rebeka Zubac
Aug 25
THIS MONTH IN ENGINEERING | August 15, 1914 - Engineering the Impossible – what it took to cut through 50 miles of earth and connect two oceans.
On 15 August 1914, the SS Ancon made the first official passage through the Panama Canal, a project that redefined global trade. Cutting...
Rebeka Zubac
Aug 18
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