Towering Views
A proposed observation tower for New York City’s Central Park would comprise the world’s tallest temporary wooden structure and include a wind-powered system to filter water from the reservoir it would...
Rock Glue Gets the Job Done: Reducing Rockfall Hazards along the G.W. Parkway
After a large rockfall damaged the road and disrupted traffic along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in 2002, the National Park Service was looking for solutions to stabilize the slope against additional...
Largest Mass Timber Building in U.S. Takes Shape in Minneapolis
Earthquake-Resistant Bridge Under Construction in Seattle
Structurally Independent Theater Systems to Be Added to California High School Auditorium
Pensacola Bay Bridge Design Embraces Pedestrians
Virginia Project Benefits from Unique Intake Structure and New Take on Design/Build
Calibration of Jackup Leg Foundation Model Using Full-Scale Structural Measurements
The fitness of jack-up rigs to operate in varying water depths and weather conditions is determined by "site-specific" structural assessments. These assessments are conducted by a wide range of companies...
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,...
Heave Compensated Landing System - A Novel Tool for Subsea Intervention
This paper presents a new intervention system that allows the use of a low cost workboat to deploy and recover delicate payloads in subsea installations. Vessel motions are decoupled from the subsea package...
Where Geosynthetics Meet Mining Geotechnics: Part of the Mining Engineer's Toolbox
From enhancing stability to providing environmental containment, geosynthetic materials play an important role in mining projects and geotechnics in general. While often overlooked, advancements in geosynthetic...
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...
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,...
Offshore Technology in Civil Engineering
Hall of Fame Papers: Volume 11
Prepared by the Program Committee of the Offshore Technology Conference of the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute of ASCE<\p>Offshore Technology...
Earthquake-Resistant Bricks Could Improve Structural Performance
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
Return to search