Tag: Infrastructure

The tragic building collapse in Surfside, Florida, leaves a mountain of questions for forensic investigations to answer.

Journalist Tyler J. Kelley explores efforts to control America’s rivers in the face of changing climate patterns, aging infrastructure, lack of funds, and competing land-use demands.

Implementing emerging technologies will prove crucial to the resilience of the civil infrastructure of the future.

A public comment period is now open for the 2022 edition of ASCE/SEI 7 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures.

Reuben Hull's Civil Engineering Almanac travels back to the opening of the first roller coaster in the United States was opened at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.

A new ASCE manual of practice released this week gives civil engineers the tools to design, plan, and build more resiliently, more consistently.

The efforts include using pocket parks and athletic fields — among other sites — to temporarily hold stormwater during the seasonal monsoon season so the water can percolate into the ground.

Extreme tornado events can cause damage and loss of life as a result of flying debris and collapsing structures. While most tornadoes are generally weak and occur in lightly populated areas, there are extreme events, like one in March 2020 that ravaged Tennessee. Multiple storm systems resulted in two tornadoes, one in Cookeville, Tennessee, and the second near Baxter, Tennessee with wind speeds of...

The St. Francis Dam failure ranks as the worst U.S. man-made disaster of the 20th century.

The piers, located along the Delaware River in South Philadelphia, will be linked with a curving boardwalk and will include various habitats for plants and aquatic life.