Projects

Video: Art installation also provides pedestrian access to London’s Dinosaur Island

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The 8 m long pivoting art installation can, when necessary, swing around to offer pedestrian access to the Crystal Palace Park island that hosts Victorian-era dinosaur sculptures.
Projects

Companies join forces to develop carbon-negative bioenergy facility

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The facility will use biomass to generate electricity. The carbon dioxide produced during that generation will be sequestered underground.
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Ethics

Engineering Ethics: Public health, safety, and welfare

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How can civil engineers balance their mission to improve infrastructure with their ethical obligations to society? In the first of this three-part series, interviewees discuss how engineers’ actions impact the public.
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Career Development

How I aced the P.E. exam

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With the next round of P.E. and S.E. exams approaching, it’s nearly crunch time for those seeking professional licensure this spring.
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Society News

President-elect official nominees answer your questions ahead of Society election

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As the ASCE 2021 election nears – voting opens May 1 – members can learn more about the official nominees for president-elect through a series of candidate forums this month.
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Projects

Michigan agencies collaborate to reduce sewer overflows

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By working together, three agencies in southeast Michigan will reduce sewer overflows to the Rouge River faster and more cost-effectively than if they acted separately.
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Resilience

Groundbreaking interagency report seeks to move beyond life-safety design standards

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A new report from NIST and FEMA highlights the need for timely reoccupancy and functional recovery of buildings and infrastructure in the aftermath of earthquakes and other disasters.
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History and Preservation

Civil Engineering Almanac – Seattle World’s Fair opens

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Reuben Hull's Civil Engineering Almanac travels back to the day when Seattle's World Fair opened.
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Projects

Video: Art installation also provides pedestrian access to London’s Dinosaur Island

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The 8 m long pivoting art installation can, when necessary, swing around to offer pedestrian access to the Crystal Palace Park island that hosts Victorian-era dinosaur sculptures.
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Innovation

Exploring effective means for handling food waste

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A new paper in the "Journal of Environmental Engineering," “Optimization of Thermal Pretreatment of Food Waste for Maximal Solubilization,” explores pretreatment techniques.
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Resilience

Groundbreaking interagency report seeks to move beyond life-safety design standards

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A new report from NIST and FEMA highlights the need for timely reoccupancy and functional recovery of buildings and infrastructure in the aftermath of earthquakes and other disasters.
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Career Development

First step: turning an internship into a full-time job

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Kacy Grundhauser, A.M.ASCE, talks with Civil Engineering about how she turned a college internship into a full-time job where she can focus on her dual interests in water resources and transportation.
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Projects

Slideshow: Australia plans sustainable ‘living’ structure to help conserve world’s corals

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Housed within a sustainable concrete-framed structure powered by renewable energy, a “living ark” in Australia is planned to help study and preserve more than 800 species of hard coral.
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Perspectives

Can engineering save nature?

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Author Elizabeth Kolbert looks at whether humans — after doing so much damage to nature through the development of the built environment — can now reengineer nature to save it.
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Policy and legislation

Five points on grid modernization as we build a more resilient future
Guest Post By Ruth Gratzke, President of Siemens Smart Infrastructure I recently came across some startling numbers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration about... Read more
President Biden Releases FY22 ‘Skinny Budget’
Last Friday the White House sent Congress its initial $1.5 trillion budget request for discretionary appropriations in fiscal year (FY) 2022. Known as the ‘skinny... Read more
Dams and Levees: The Check Engine Light is On
Guest Blog Post by Del Shannon, PE, M.ASCE The grades are in again, and to those of us who care and worry and fret about... Read more
ASCE Lends Expertise to Policy Recommendations on Improving State Disaster Response
The National Conference of State Legislatures’ (NCSL) Public Private Partnership on Disaster Mitigation and Recovery published a series of policy recommendations this month. The partnership,... Read more
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History and Preservation

Civil Engineering Almanac – Seattle World’s Fair opens

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Reuben Hull's Civil Engineering Almanac travels back to the day when Seattle's World Fair opened.
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Society News

President-elect official nominees answer your questions ahead of Society election

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As the ASCE 2021 election nears – voting opens May 1 – members can learn more about the official nominees for president-elect through a series of candidate forums this month.
Read more
Career Development

How I aced the P.E. exam

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With the next round of P.E. and S.E. exams approaching, it’s nearly crunch time for those seeking professional licensure this spring.
Read more
History and Preservation

Civil Engineering Almanac – Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel opens

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Reuben Hull's Civil Engineering Almanac travels back to the day when the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel opened.
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Innovation

Exploring effective means for handling food waste

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A new paper in the "Journal of Environmental Engineering," “Optimization of Thermal Pretreatment of Food Waste for Maximal Solubilization,” explores pretreatment techniques.
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Innovation

New paper maps spatial and temporal evolution of ditch networks

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A new paper in the "Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering" uses aerial images to provide new insight into temporal and special distribution of catchment-scale peatland drainage.
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Society News

ASCE partners with new NSF research alliance

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The National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering this week launched the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance, the first engineering research visioning organization of its kind.
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Innovation

Pressurized sand damper proposed for earthquake engineering

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Earthquake shaking has resulted in severe damage of structures built in the past 40 years, despite being designed according to building codes valid at...
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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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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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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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