It's been 15 months since Hurricane Harvey pelted Southeastern Texas with historic levels of rain.
The resilience efforts continue, led by civil engineers like Carol Haddock.
Haddock, the director of public works in Houston, gives us an update on the progress made in her hometown since Harvey .
In this week's Changing the World segment, University of Central Florida student Zachary Loeb talks about how his love...
Upholding the public’s safety, health, and welfare is an everyday charge of civil engineers. So when a storm event strikes, it’s only natural that they are among those on the front lines to help with resilience and recovery efforts.
John Fleming, P.E., M.ASCE, an ASCE Region 4 governor in South Carolina, is among those civil engineering superheroes lending a hand this week in the aftermath...
With Hurricane Florence making landfall on the U.S. East Coast this weekend, images of 2017’s autumn come to mind, when storms similarly wreaked havoc in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere.
ASCE News contacted ASCE members in those areas still recovering from last year’s hurricanes and asked them to offer advice or any lessons learned for civil engineers now in the path of Florence.
As Houston-area...
A year ago, the world watched as Hurricane Harvey battered southeastern Texas with historic levels of rainfall. The ensuing flooding changed lives there forever.
It’s always somewhere else until it’s not.
And even a flood expert like Gary Struzick, P.E., M.ASCE, isn’t immune.
“I thought for years, watching all these disasters across the country in different areas, I’m thinking, ‘Why don’t these people get out of the way? They know it’s coming,’” Struzick said. “And now it’s happened to me.”
Struzick’s Buffalo Bayou neighborhood flooded Sunday after Hurricane Harvey dumped 20...
Texas Section Second Year Director-at-Large Kate Osborn, EIT, A.M.ASCE, has been working on little to no rest all week.
The ASCE Southeast Texas Branch President-Elect and project engineer for Schaumburg & Polk Inc. has long been committed to helping her hometown of China, TX. She’s a city councilwoman there and a founding member of the China Community Action Group.
So when Hurricane Harvey rains arrived there...
