A critical phase of an effort to stabilize a coastal bluff beneath a critical rail line in in Southern California is scheduled to be completed by year's end.
The West Vancouver Freight Access project helped solve three problems at once in the Port of Vancouver.
The project made it possible that unit train capabilities can remain competitive with other West Coast ports; rail access to the Port is granted by eliminating the at-grade crossing of two tracks; and overall rail operations within the port are strengthened.
The West Vancouver Freight Access Project, in Vancouver,...
The Transcontinental Railroad, one of the great infrastructure triumphs in U.S. history, turns 150 years old May 10.
The ASCE History and Heritage Committee is celebrating with the Golden Spike 150th Anniversary history symposia, May 5-6, in Sacramento, CA.
Among the speakers is renowned civil engineering historian and ASCE Distinguished Member Raymond Paul Giroux, whose previous lectures highlighted such landmark projects as the Golden Gate Bridge,...
Avinash Prasad, P.E., R.L.S., F.ASCE, an engineer and land surveyor with more than 25 years of professional experience in civil engineering and management, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Prasad is currently a Ph.D. candidate at New York University. His ongoing doctorate major is in bridge asset management. The main topic of research is development and evaluation of a risk...
