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Senior Principal Ed Gerns joins a panel of speakers to present "Terra Cotta: History, Preservation Techniques, and Challenges" for The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) webinar on Tuesday, September 10 at 1:00 pm ET. Learn more and register: https://ow.ly/xuKx50Tfz61

Landmarks Illinois awarded the Ramova Theatre in Chicago with a 2024 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award in the Adaptive Use category. The organization also awarded the historic Lawson House in Chicago with the Richard H. Driehaus Legacy Award and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award in the Rehabilitation category. For the Ramova Theatre, we served as the facade and interior restoration consultant for the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the 1,800-person live music venue and destination space, featuring a craft brewery, taproom, and grill. For the Lawson House, we provided peer review services for the building enclosure during the rehabilitation of the building, a twenty-four-story Art Deco skyscraper that now houses more than four hundred apartment units for low-income residents. Congratulations to Ramova Theatre Project Manager Rachel Will and Lawson House Project Manager Tony Cinnamon and to their teams on these award-winning projects!

We recently hosted guests at our Northbrook headquarters to discuss the challenges and benefits of low-embodied carbon concrete, specifically for use in data center construction. On behalf of our client Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), WJE is testing four low-embodied carbon concrete mixes through a field trial for use in slabs of data centers owned by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Watch highlights from the day: https://ow.ly/lIih50Tagtq Attendees included representatives from the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Michigan Department of Transportation, and others.

Senior Associate and Unit Manager Mohamed ElBatanouny, PhD, SE will discuss the "Bridge Deck Preservation Tool" and will also present an "Indoor Demo: FHWA InfoBridge and Bridge Deck Preservation Tool" with Raj Ailaney from the Federal Highway Administration at the 2024 National Bridge Preservation Conference in Salt Lake City on Thursday, September 12. Learn more and register: https://ow.ly/jxbz50T82xP

As a procedure, hydrogen bake-out is used in many process industries, such as oil and gas, chemicals, and petrochemicals, to help remove hydrogen that has dissolved in metals before performing welding. Typically, hydrogen can enter steel via diffusion or chemical reactions at the surface. Once within the metallic matrix, it can make the steel brittle and/or prone to fracture through several mechanisms collectively called hydrogen embrittlement. In this article, mechanical engineer Scott Bouse discusses hydrogen bake-out and shares industry applications and recommendations: https://ow.ly/VhAR50T9Upl Learn more about our Metallurgy and Applied Mechanics services: https://ow.ly/UWzN50T9UL8

Sigicom AB will host a lecture on vibration monitoring with Dr. Charles Dowding, Northwestern University Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering on September 17 at our Northbrook, IL headquarters. If you’re unable to attend in person, you can participate virtually. Dr. Dowding will review the fundamentals of vibration, structural response, and construction site monitoring. Attendees will be awarded 4.0 PDH credits. Learn more and register: https://ow.ly/3pZ050T6z1l..

Associate Principals Warren Bonisch, P.E. and Ervin Cui will discuss "LFP Technology Gigafab Development—Cost, Speed, Challenges, and Opportunities" at the LFP Battery Tech Conference in Detroit on September 4. Learn more and register: https://ow.ly/A4gy50T6Qgm

The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) recognized the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge in Brooklyn, New York, with the 2024 Merit Award in the Rehabilitation category, and Engineering News-Record New York recognized the bridge with the 2024 Best Project Award in the Highway/Bridge category. We provided design-build services for mechanical, electrical, and structural design, and construction support services for elevators, span locks, centering devices, barrier gates, and auxiliary counterweights. Congratulations to Project Manager Robert Tosolt and his team on this award-winning project.