As president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), then among the country's biggest and richest corporations, Alexander Cassatt in the early 1900s commissioned remarkable engineering and architectural feats.
Liberty commissioned an engineering study comparing Xeros to a commercial washer, finding that water use was cut by 80% and natural gas usage was reduced by 100%.
In 1938, the Maryland State Roads Commission (SRC) commissioned an engineering study titled Maryland's Primary Bridge Program to examine the feasibility of major bridges across significant transportation barriers, including a bridge crossing the Patapsco River southeast of the Inner Harbor.
In a technical review obtained by VICE News of a report Pacific Northwest commissioned from engineering firm Hatch Ltd., the DFO found the impact modeling the company submitted as part of the environmental assessment to be full of inaccuracies, unjustified assumptions, and erroneous methodology.
Or, imagine some of the commission engineering staff getting throttled when they visit GitHub, where lots of open-source software gets shared.
For Google, this journey of self-realization through architecture became serious in 2011, when it commissioned a new engineering and management building, from the German architect Christoph Ingenhoven.
Engineering reports commissioned as part of the master plan projected forward to 2035.
Among them, said Mr. French, was confusion over who — Arup, the giant British engineering company commissioned to design the sustainable city, or Shanghai Industrial Investment, the state-owned developer — would actually fund Dongtan.
But at least one large downtown real estate company has commissioned a well-known engineering firm to examine whether Long Island Rail Road service could be extended from Brooklyn into Lower Manhattan.
An engineering report, commissioned by the county, showed corroded stairwells in imminent danger of collapse.
