Construction Begins on Stormwater Treatment Area to Benefit Florida’s Everglades
Design Under Way on Large-Scale Sanitation Project in Egypt
Foundation Releases Comprehensive U.S. Flood Model, Warns Of Greater Risks
3-D Holograms Offer Alternative to 2-D Construction Drawings
Harbinger of the Future: The Suez Canal (Part 1)
This month’s History Lesson is the first of two parts, the second to be published in the October issue. In this part, we examine the construction of the Suez Canal and the events leading to its control...
Accelerating Through Adversity
As the economy slowed to a near halt this spring because of the COVID-19 pandemic, some critical civil engineering projects were completed faster than originally scheduled because of fewer vehicles on...
Entrepreneurial Engineers
Engineers who start their own consulting companies face countless challenges, from raising capital to marketing their firms to garnering clients—with no guarantee of success. Yet entrepreneurial engineers...
Gannett Fleming’s Landslide Remediation Project Recognized
Geostabilization Earns Award for Historic Project
Inclusion as a Strategic Imperative: How One Engineering Firm Has Created Change from Within
Tackling inclusion and diversity in a business can seem like too tangled a knot to untie. Some think they must be the CEO to make a difference in this realm, and others think it’s too large of an issue...
The Pipeline to Diversity and Inclusion in the Geoprofessions: Challenging the Profession to Increase Innovation, Profitability, and Future Sustainability
Diversity + Inclusion (D+I) is a term often used in the workplace, but its meaning is not well understood. People generally value the concept, but its nebulousness has kneecapped the movement. In fact,...
The Road to Default Termination is Littered with Risk
The Pandemic Will Drive the Markets
Who Bears the Risk When Contracts Do Not Turn Out As Expected?
USDA Awards Nearly $900 Million for Rural Water and Wastewater Projects
Nuclear Deconstruction
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the midst of a decades-long effort to safely decommission and dismantle a trio of Army nuclear reactors. The first part of the project involved the successful deconstruction...
The Genoa Approach
The Morandi Bridge (formally known as the Polcevera Viaduct) was more than just a critical part of the infrastructure of Genoa, Italy; it was part of the fabric of the city itself. When the bridge partially...
Lead-Free in Louisville
Long before lead in drinking water became a common concern, the Louisville Water Co. began a concerted campaign to identify and remove publicly owned lead service lines from its distribution system. Earlier...
Tsunami Loads and Effects
Guide to the Tsunami Design Provisions of ASCE 7-16
The devastating tsunamis that struck Chile and Japan in 2010 and 2011 underscored the critical need for new structural design criteria to improve building resilience and safeguard human life. They also...
Rapid Recovery
In May 2017, the California Department of Transportation had to contend with a massive landslide that closed a section of the iconic State Route 1 through central California’s scenic coastal region of...
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