Case Studies Transportation

Bill Yord’s work at the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority is grounded in a simple yet far-reaching idea: infrastructure matters only if it connects people to opportunity. As senior project manager, he operates at the intersection of engineering, public service, and regional coordination, helping translate large-scale transit ambitions into practical systems that serve thousands of […]

For most drivers, Interstate 69 is a simple stretch of highway connecting cities across Indiana. For Ashly Rieman, project manager at Milestone Contractors, it represents years of coordination, collaboration, and determination. The I-69 Finish Line project—connecting Indianapolis to Martinsville, Bloomington, and Evansville—is the newest interstate in the state and completing it has been a generational […]

Alan Jusczak, the director of facilities operations at Cirrus Aircraft, plays a vital role in supporting the company’s mission to redefine personal aviation. Known globally as a leader in performance, safety, and innovation, Cirrus Aircraft manufactures groundbreaking planes, including the SR Series and Vision Jet. These aircraft set the standard in the industry, and meeting […]

Just a few years ago, corporate buildings were a huge business deal for any investor to promote a new workplace for several companies that want to be in the best spot inside a financial district.   Nowadays, so many office staff have adapted to the post-pandemic hybrid or remote working method. The real estate business […]

It’s the template for the Canadian Pacific’s expansion. There, near the robust Port of Vancouver, where around 150 million metric tons of goods comes and goes annually aboard container ships, the iconic railway is enhancing its means to deliver to and fro. Last September it opened the Pacific Transload Express, a long white rectangular 117,000 […]

Chris Donner has worked around the world to help expand established brands like Whataburger, Chili’s and Wendy’s. Now, he’s helping Mammoth Holdings expand its car wash operations. Granted, these aren’t the car washes you grew up with. The conveyors still pull vehicles through the cleaning stations, adding suds here, rinsing them off there. But there […]

From the smallest component on a big rig to the temperature control sensors in terminals and warehouses, Mark Pawlik has been making improvements in the transportation and logistics industry for nearly a decade. Though his official role is director of maintenance for Big Freight Systems Inc., a transportation logistics company based in Steinbach, Manitoba, Pawlik […]

When you serve a discerning clientele, a shortcoming in one area might as well be a shortcoming in every area. Such is Naresh Israni’s modus operandi. Directly employed by SodexoMagic, he oversees integrated facilities management at the Arlington, Virginia, base of one of the world’s largest aerospace companies and is the direct contact between the […]

Passengers arriving at St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport likely don’t know they’re landing near the birthplace of commercial air transportation—they’re more likely to be focused on a Florida vacation. And Mark Sprague, CM, the airport’s deputy director of airport operations and facilities, would like them to keep that focus, with construction out of sight and mind. […]

For Pio D’Andrea, there’s always been something magical about trains—from playing with them as a child in Montreal to feeling the g-forces in his chest the first time he rode a high-speed bullet train in Japan. It’s a passion that put him on track to work for railways around the world. After four years abroad, […]