Category: Voices & Visions

Mark Pittman, senior director, transportation AI, Bentley Systems, shares how AI-powered digital inventories are shifting transport agencies from reactive maintenance to proactive infrastructure management, improving road safety, climate resilience and operational efficiency across increasingly complex and weather-exposed networks. When infrastructure failures like collapsed roads, obscured signage or flooded corridors directly impact lives, how does a…

American microbiologist Prof Joan Bray Rose has been awarded the 2026 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize for pioneering the development and global adoption of Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA), a science-based framework that transformed how water utilities assess and manage pathogen risks in drinking water and water reuse systems. Her work laid the foundation for…