Projects

Slideshow: Underwater sculpture park designed for Miami Beach

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Dubbed the ReefLine, the 7 mi offshore public park will also function as an artificial reef to preserve and protect marine life and bolster coastal resilience.
Ethics

ASCE’s new code of ethics guides civil engineers

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ASCE's new code of ethics has an easy-to-interpret hierarchical system and an approach that addresses issues of the day.
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Projects

Slideshow: Design unveiled for maritime center to be built in Rotterdam’s harbor

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The maritime center will be accessible via two bridges and will be more or less visible as the tide ebbs and flows up to 2 m in height.
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Sustainability

Are civil engineers doing enough to account for climate change?

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Are civil engineers doing enough to account for climate change? Emily Grubert, in a word, says, "No."
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History and Preservation

Penn Station expansion creates new ‘grand entrance’ to NYC

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New York City’s new Moynihan Train Hall was constructed within a historical post office building, across from Penn Station and directly above many of the station’s platforms and tracks.
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Society News

Lehman, Moore named official nominees for ASCE 2022 president-elect

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The official nominees for 2022 ASCE president-elect, as selected by the Society’s Board of Direction Nominating Committee, are Maria Lehman and Peter M. Moore.
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Career Development

Paying attention to details pays off

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Matthew Hughes, P.E., M.ASCE, is digitizing infrastructure into GIS databases, making sure the data are accurate for utility clients.
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Projects

U.S. Army Corps deconstructs nuclear facilities, carefully

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently decommissioned and dismantled a nuclear power plant onboard a ship — the first of a trio of reactors that must be deconstructed over the next several years.
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History and Preservation

Penn Station expansion creates new ‘grand entrance’ to NYC

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New York City’s new Moynihan Train Hall was constructed within a historical post office building, across from Penn Station and directly above many of the station’s platforms and tracks.
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Projects

Breakwaters aim to halt ongoing erosion at coastal refuge

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A new series of breakwaters in southwestern Louisiana features an innovative, lightweight design to overcome the region’s poor soils.
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Projects

Duke researchers ask: Can soil temperature predict a landslide?

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Duke University researchers are taking the temperature of landslides to help predict sudden, catastrophic failures of the moving land masses.
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Innovation

Membrane research promises less expensive desalination treatment

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Exactly how water flows through membranes has previously not been well understood. That is now changing.
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Projects

Slideshow: Underwater sculpture park designed for Miami Beach

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Dubbed the ReefLine, the 7 mi offshore public park will also function as an artificial reef to preserve and protect marine life and bolster coastal resilience.
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Innovation

New material excels at removing copper from water

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Researchers have developed a new material that shows great promise as a means of removing copper — which is linked to disease and organ failure — from contaminated water sources.
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Business

Review: How to leave automated decision-making behind

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Tired of outsourcing your decisions to technologies, experts, and rules? Author Vikram Mansharamani offers solutions in his book "Think for Yourself."
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Policy and legislation

Radhika Fox, US Water Alliance CEO and ASCE Partner Joins EPA Office of Water
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week announced the selection of US Water Alliance CEO Radhika Fox as Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office... Read more
Biden Administration Moves Swiftly on Key Infrastructure Positions
On the heels of President Biden’s inauguration, infrastructure-related agencies across the federal government already had key nominations put forth. While more nominations will be announced... Read more
President Biden Takes Office and Infrastructure Takes Center Stage
Yesterday, President Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, ushering in a new Administration which has indicated that infrastructure will... Read more
The Hidden Infrastructure Tax We’re All Paying: New Economic Study
Think about what you can do with an extra $3,300 a year. Narrow that down to $275 each month—a typical car payment. Simplify that number... Read more
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Understanding the role of gender in knowledge seeking among engineers

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Previous research has discussed the marginalization of women in the profession, but how does knowledge acquisition play a role?
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Society News

New ASCE Fellows – January 2021

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ASCE members elected to Fellow status have made celebrated contributions and developed creative solutions that have enhanced lives. Just 3 percent of Society members...
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Innovation

ASCE salutes 9 projects with 2021 OCEA Honor Awards

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These nine projects has been honored as 2021 ASCE OCEA Honor Award recipients.
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Society News

Society makes Rilett new Fellow

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Laurence R. Rilett, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and the inaugural holder of the Keith W. Klaasmeyer Chair in Engineering and Technology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
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Technical notes

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Understanding the role of gender in knowledge seeking among engineers

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Previous research has discussed the marginalization of women in the profession, but how does knowledge acquisition play a role?
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Innovation

Testing bridge structure vibration using a similarity model

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Bridge structures, which account for a large proportion of high-speed railways and urban rail transits, produce vibration that radiate low-frequency structural noise. This low-frequency...
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Resilience

Modeling storm sewer networks and urban flooding

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As heavy precipitation events increase in intensity and frequency, urban flooding wreaks havoc on energy and water services, transportation hubs, housing, education, and employment. Modeling...
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Projects

Designing tall buildings for wind

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A new ASCE Manual of Practice brings much-needed consistency to criteria for tall buildings specific to wind effects.
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ASCE Plot Points Podcast

Change agents

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ASCE PLOT POINTS SEASON 4 EPISODE 11 Wanting to help save the world is an admirable goal. Figuring out just how you can plug that...
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ASCE Plot Points Podcast

This building might save your life

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Season 4, Episode 10: Burçin Becerik-Gerber, a professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Southern California and director of...
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ASCE Plot Points Podcast

Improving the future: structural fire engineering design

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ASCE Plot Points Season 4 Episode 9: It's amazing to think that even in the oldest professional in the world, civil engineering, there remain...
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Are civil engineers doing enough to combat climate change?

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ASCE Plot Points Season 4 Episode 8: Are civil engineers doing enough to combat climate change? It's a simple question with a complicated answer. Or maybe...
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