Buckland & Taylor

One of my favorite weekly columns is Creating in the weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal.  Each week the columan profiles an individual in a creative or innovative endeavor.  About half the profiles are of engineers (the WSJ should publish a book with the best profiles).  Put Creating on your reading list.

This past week covered bridge engineer Murray Johnson of Buckland & Taylor.  Mr. Johnson excels at the art and science of truss sliding - - a process described in the article as " performing open-heart surgery on the runner while he's running a marathon."

This is a great observation from the article, especially in the context of our fixation with a paperless profession and industry:

"Mr. Johnson goes through a lot of paper, drafting thousands of pages of calculations, drawings and diagrams."

Link to the article in the Journal - - Feats of Bridge-Building Bravura.