Design for Major Flood-Control Project in Norfolk Begins to Take Shape
D.C. Unveils Design for New Anacostia River Crossing
As I See It: Rethinking the One-Third Increase in Bearing Capacity for Seismic and Wind
Pensacola Bay Bridge Design Embraces Pedestrians
Virginia Project Benefits from Unique Intake Structure and New Take on Design/Build
Design of Submarine Pipelines Against Upheaval Buckling
This paper describes part of a comprehensive joint-industry project on upheaval buckling. It develops a semi-empirical simplified design method and detailed design methods based on a new numerical analysis,...
Guidelines for Construction Vibrations: How Much Rattle is Too Much?
The study of construction/blast-related ground vibrations on structures, people, and objects is a surprisingly diverse field. Vibration sources vary from blasting, all types of construction equipment,...
Seismic Data from Smartphones: MyShake: Building a Global Smartphone Seismic Network
Increasing the density of earthquake-monitoring instruments at a fast rate and at a low cost is a dream for many researchers who study earthquakes. MyShake, a smartphone application developed by the Berkeley...
Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements
The Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements will contain technical and professional articles on the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of airport, roadway and other...
The Paris architecture firm Vincent Callebaut Architectures S.A.R.L. has released a conceptual design of what it calls Aequorea, an ocean habitat unit that could accommodate up to 20,000 residents and researchers and be moved via ship or submarine using alga-based fuels...
“Taking the High Line into the skyline” is how the Bjarke Ingels Group, an architecture firm with offices in New York City and København (Copenhagen), Denmark, describes the design of a winding, tree-lined office tower 1,005 ft tall that is to be constructed in the Hudson Yards area of Manhattan...
A star-shaped combination library and exhibition hall designed by Michael Arellanes II, the founder of the architecture firm M A 2, which has offices in Houston and Hong Kong, is the latest contribution to efforts to regenerate the north side of Houston...
An extraordinary tree-covered, mixed-use structure that crosses a highway on the outskirts of Paris has been chosen as the winning design for the Pershing site (16/24 boulevard Pershing – avenue de la parte des Ternes) of the Reinventing Paris competition, a city initiative that has opened up 23 sites for innovative, modern developments conceived by architects and urban planners...
Bridge Designed To Last 100 Years Will Replace Outer Banks Crossing
Thomas Bögl, a director and partner of the Dutch firm LIAG architects, has designed a storage and restoration facility for the precious works of the Rijksmuseum, a complex of national museums in Amsterdam dedicated to art and history…
Design Work Begins on Major Expansion of Houston Treatment Facility
Church Building Design Features Sweeping Curves and Connection to Nature
Such natural forms as leaves, spider webs, and snake skins inspired a new facade that has been designed to surround and enliven a gas tank in Heidelberg, Germany, that is being converted into a heat storage facility…
Translating the Language of Soils: Developing a Soil Classification System for International Engineering Projects
Soil classification systems are used to help predict soil behavior and provide information to farmers, engineers, builders, agricultural extension agents, homeowners, community planners, and government...
Optimized Drilled Shaft Design through Post-Grouting: Shorten That Shaft for Better Performance
Tip post-grouting is a technique used to inject, under pressure, a neat cement grout beneath the base of a drilled shaft. This method enhances or improves axial load-displacement performance by increasing...
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