Adapting to covid-19
As quickly as Covid-19 spread around the globe, countries responded. The architectural, engineering, and construction industry response to covid-19 was quick, but the implications of those changes could be long-lasting. PHOTO: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ASCE Plot Points Season 4 Episode 2: Transportation is a lot different in 2020 than it was in 2019, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The key question now is what changes wrought by the coronavirus will still be affecting transit systems next year and into the longer term? Today’s episode of ASCE Plot Points is devoted to answering those questions. A special expert panel, assembled
The scenes this spring along highways cutting through Seattle were something out of a “Twilight Zone” episode. Morning commute, midday, 5 p.m. rush hour – it didn’t matter. There were barely any cars on the roads. “Eerie,” is how one King County Department of Transportation engineer described it at the time. The COVID-19 pandemic kept people at home and cars off the road not just
ASCE members participated in a third survey this spring to assess pandemic-related effects on the civil engineering industry. The COVID-19 Impact and Implementation Survey, compiled by Industry Insights for ASCE, collected feedback from 836 Society members between May 26 and 28. The results paint an interesting picture – one where the initial shock of the pandemic has faded into a realization that the effects on
April 2020 is not a month anyone will forget anytime soon, as the coronavirus pandemic emptied city streets and shuttered many businesses. The ASCE Plot Points podcast’s COVID-19 Community Calls series featured 33 phone calls in 33 days – April 1 through May 3 – talking to 33 different civil engineers about how the pandemic changed their jobs, their communities and their lives. Taken as
OLDER, EXPERIENCED engineers have likely been through at least one economic downturn before the one currently being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the most recent significant recession having taken place just a little more than a decade ago. So they know what to expect and how to keep their focus on recovery. But younger engineers—those hired after the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009—have
