It's Construction Safety Week, an important time to highlight concepts and practices that are crucial to the industry year-round.
John Gambatese, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, chair of the CI Construction Safety Committee, explains: "As engineers, we are all involved in safety in some way. When we design and construct buildings, bridges, roadways, and other parts of our infrastructure, safety is the top priority. The ASCE-CI Construction...
In the early morning of June 14, 2017, a simple kitchen fire spread quickly across the Grenfell Tower, a 24-story residential building in West London, consuming the structure and killing 71 people.
The tragedy sent shockwaves throughout the construction industry not just in England but around the world.
“It’s certainly been a wakeup call,” said Alastair Soane, Ph.D., C.Eng, director of Structural Safety UK. “Some of...
Gerald H. Williams Jr., Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a construction industry productivity expert and founder of Construction Research LLC, in Portland, OR, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Williams’ career has touched all aspects of the construction industry. He started as a design engineer on municipal projects and went on to oversee the public improvements on a large urban renewal project...
ASCE has honored Andres Baquerizo, P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Roebling Award for his leadership in innovative deep foundation construction technologies.
Baquerizo has successfully completed many challenging projects and is constantly seeking out innovative solutions for the most difficult of problems. Consequently, his foundation solutions are often the result of his "thinking" outside the box.
Through his work, he has impacted the local trends with respect...
ASCE has honored Aminah Robinson Fayek, P.Eng., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Peurifoy Construction Research Award for her contributions in fuzzy logic theory and practice for construction engineering and management.
Robinson Fayek is in a distinct class of academic civil engineers who have successfully bridged the gap between academic theory and engineering practice to exert real change within the construction industry. Since joining the University of...
ASCE has honored Fernanda L. Leite, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Daniel W. Halpin Award for Scholarship in Construction for scholarly contributions made at the interface of construction project management and building and civil information modeling.
Leite is a nationally and internationally recognized construction engineering leader who has developed a research program at the interface of construction project management and information modeling. Her goal...
ASCE has honored V. Amarjit Singh, Ph.D., P.Eng., C.Eng., PMP, F.ASCE, with the 2019 Construction Management Award for innovation and research aimed at improving construction around the globe.
Singh is professionally recognized in India, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. In his own words, his research experience has covered “everything engineering and construction.” Among other topics this means mitigation of wave energies inside...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Marc A. Santos, P.E., M.ASCE; Richard F. Carbonaro, Ph.D., P.E.; and Robert R. Sharp, Ph.D., P.E., with the 2019 Samuel Arnold Greeley Award for the paper “Control Strategies for the Mitigation and Removal of Attached Manganese Biofilms,” in the January 2018 issue of the Journal of Environmental Engineering.
In the selected work, the team investigated the use of...
Life for Garit Poire falls into two boxes. There are the days before Nov. 16, 2014, and those that have followed.
And that day in the middle, the line of demarcation?
On Nov. 16, 2014, Garit, then a civil engineering student at Florida State University, was visiting Atlanta for his mom’s birthday. He didn’t feel well. He thought perhaps he’d accidentally eaten some gluten and triggered...
John Barton, P.E., M.ASCE, serves as HNTB Corporation's national DOT market sector leader and senior vice president. Barton's experience includes nearly 30 years at the Texas Department of Transportation, including his most recent role as deputy executive director.
Today, he shares how what he calls the “new tariff reality” could bring out the best in civil engineers.
Anyone who has taken a microeconomics course is not...
