Sustainability & Resilience
Sustainability and resilience are fundamental to everything civil engineers do.
As longtime ASCE leader and Houston Director of Public Works Carol Haddock, P.E., M.ASCE, said, “It’s not just about having resilient infrastructure. It’s about having resilient communities.”
As the world grows warmer, engineers strive to protect and preserve our threatened infrastructure from wildfires and heat waves.
Despite using concrete, the building will still go beyond net zero.
In episode 118 of the ASCE Plot Points podcast, Doug Taylor talks about how wildfires continue to affect his homestate of California and what civil engineers can do to help.
The net-zero urban area will float in the Busan Harbor.
Sustainability, resilience, and the IIJA are on readers’ minds.
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The plan re-envisions water supply, built infrastructure in the Gagarin Valley.
The 33-story building boasts two vertical atria that circulate fresh air.
To cut carbon emissions, Ithaca, New York, is electrifying all its buildings.
The mixed-use complex will integrate nature and the built environment.
Social media feeds filled this week with people helping the affected communities, and ASCE members and civil engineers, as is typically the case in similar post-disaster situations, were front and center helping.