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Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., Ph.D., Dist.M.ASCE, NAE, retired chairman and CEO of Bechtel, who led the company through massive expansion from the 1960s through the ’80s, and was a lifelong philanthropist who championed production of ASCE’s 2017 IMAX movie Dream Big: Engineering Our World, has died at

ASCE has honored the writing team of Ashtad Javanmardi, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE; S. Alireza Abbasian-Hosseini, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE; Min Liu, A.M.ASCE; and Simon M. Hsiang, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE,with the 2021 Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for the paper “Improving Effectiveness of Constraints Removal in Construction Planning Meetings: Information-Theoretic Approach,” published in the April 2020 issue of Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute recently announced its class of 2021 SEI Fellows

Reuben Hull’s Civil Engineering Almanac travels back to the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam

Leslie E. Robertson, a brilliant conceptualist who designed the structural systems of the World Trade Center, has died. He was

Issam “Sam” Minkarah, professor emeritus of civil engineering in construction management at the University of Cincinnati, has died. He was

A paper in the March issue of “Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering” focuses on granular soils containing nonplastic fines (silt), investigating the combined effect of the void ratio, effective vertical stress, and fines content on the liquefaction resistance of sands

ASCE member input, through a new survey, can play a critical role in informing future efforts to improve social equity in the built environment

Technical updates to the latest edition of ASCE/SEI 43 ensure the proper design of nuclear facilities.

Every four years, ASCE releases the Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, which evaluates the condition and need for improvement of the nation’s infrastructure. The 2021 Report Card gave the U.S. a C- grade overall