Portraits and interviews 

Michael, Matt and Kurt are not just engineers, they’re also divers. This unusual combination gives the three young Americans an opportunity to put their skills to use under very special conditions.

Published: 04.11.2008

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A young engineer has found the benefits of a Middle East relocation far outweigh the drawbacks.

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Environmental engineer Erik Christian Heyer has chosen to take a career break and join Doctors Without Borders in a bid to make his own personal contribution towards "saving the world".
Published: 17.12.2007
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Ole Rud Hansen recently returned to Denmark after four years working on China's Sutong Bridge. Life there was certainly different, and what's all this about a "long nose"?
Published: 13.11.2007
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To be a single mother-of-two and have an international career are not incompatible for Nina Bull Jørgensen, a communications officer with Austral-COWI.
Published: 17.09.2007
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Michael Jæger is on the front line when it comes to tackling Indonesia's illegal timber trade. From training police to analysing satellite imagery, he leads a team determined to stop erdication of forestry.
Published: 3.5.2007
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The working culture in a space or an office can act as a stress factor and result in low efficiency. That is the view of Heidi Lund Hansen, who has been researching how people work in open-plan offices.
Published: 26.01.2007
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Andrew Christensen is an expert in delivering heat efficiency projects. He was recently honoured in Mongolia for all his work work there over the last decade. But things were very different on his first visit.
Published: 18.12.2006
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Copenhagen is a perfect example of a city that has understood how to utilise its public spaces. But we should beware of incorporating passing fads into construction, says architect Lars Gemzøe of GEHL Architects.
Published: 26.10.2006
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Erik Andersen builds robots for the food industry. His latest invention is an offshore machine that can tail lobsters. It's one of many fascinating projects he has been involved with during a long career.
Published: 24.08.2006
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When the tsunami struck, Carsten Laugesen became responsible for the construction of three wastewater plants in Thailand. Today he is project manager of a new wastewater treatment plant on Koh Phi Phi.
Published: 8.5.2006
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Electricity from biomass and underground energy storage: COWI's Project Manager, Reto M. Hummelshøj, draws on more than 25 years' experience and lashings of creativity when developing new alternative energy solutions.
Published: 1.2.2006
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