September 2020

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Entrepreneurial engineers

Entrepreneurial engineers continue to go into business for themselves, looking to carve out their niches in the world. What does it take to succeed

From Civil Engineering Magazine

Balancing security and care

In creating this modern mental health center, the design team had to balance maximum security and patient care while also facing challenging site conditions and program requirements

From Civil Engineering Magazine

Realigning ASCE for the future

The American Society of Civil Engineers stands at the edge of transformational change.

From Civil Engineering Magazine

Sidebar: Secure structures

The Nixon Forensic Center is an interesting combination of a health facility and detention center. The state of Missouri and WSP worked together to provide an environment in which patients would not feel as though they were in a typical incarceration environment. This had to be combined with consideration for the security and safety of patients and staff. Each of the six main living units

From Civil Engineering Magazine

House passes $10-billion Water Resources Development Act, focus turns to Senate

The Water Resources Development Act would fulfill a longstanding goal of many infrastructure advocates

From Civil Engineering Magazine

Sidebar: Civil support

The design and construction of the new Nixon Forensic Center represented big changes for the site of the new psychiatric hospital—both in terms of the modern facilities that were planned and the changes that were necessary to prepare the physical site for those facilities. Most dramatically, the site featured a 60 ft drop in elevation from its high end on the northeastern edge of the

From Civil Engineering Magazine

Delivering a masterpiece

New York’s new Kosciuzsko Bridge links Brooklyn and Queens, reshaping the skyline of the boroughs it connects

From Civil Engineering Magazine