One takeaway from a webinar series by the Los Angeles Headquarters Association is that it’s often engineers who are empowered to implement strategies to improve the equity and inclusion of designs.
The design proposal for the new Amazon headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, will be visually defined by The Helix: a spiral, mountain-shaped tower with two exterior landscaped walking paths.
Authorized by Congress in December, the Houston Ship Channel Expansion received another boost in January with the award of the first round of federal funding for construction of the project.
The project includes three elements: a large underground transit hub, expansive plazas and parkland amenities, and a faithful reconstruction of the site’s historical train station.
A new paper in the Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering presents a risk framework that can be used by decision makers to assess tsunami risks to small craft harbors.
The city of Peoria, Illinois, is using green infrastructure as a cost-effective strategy to comply with a new consent decree aimed at reducing combined sewer overflows.
The new library and theaters at the Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School occupy a building that is a curvy, visual mashup of the silhouette of a blue whale and an ocean liner.
With a new expansion, the Las Vegas Convention Center boasts an additional 1.4 million sq ft of space and will eventually be served by an innovative, under-construction people mover.
The bridge, which spans the Ohio River, was closed after a serious crash. The structure reopened a day ahead of schedule after a coordinated repair project.
