ASCE announced the Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion as the winner of the 2026 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award, ...

Coupled Wave Modelling for Extreme Loads on Heritage Coastal Cliffs (17 minutes) ...

The session reviews modern beach monitoring programs, annual shoreline surveys, and post-storm assessments used to evaluate beach performance. Attendees will examine data collected across engineered ...

Nature Based Solutions Along the Texas Coast: A Review of Current and Planned Projects (16 minutes) ...

Ceyda Polatel, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, is an infrastructure and installation resilience engineer for the United States Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District and chair of ASCE’s Environmental and ...

Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles, by Mike Colias. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2025; 320 pages, $32. The global share of electric vehicles sold ...

The Western Kentucky University concrete canoe (finally) claims the winner's trophy. It’s a good week to make some history. Just seven days before the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, ...

As most readers know, typical change order clauses in construction contracts contain numerous procedural requirements that contractors must follow to obtain cost and schedule relief. These ...

There is a U.S. city whose reputation has been steadily growing in civil engineering circles this decade. Infrastructure growth left and right. Strong talent base. Appealing climate. “My whole ...

Ashley Forkey, S.M.ASCE, is a senior from South Florida studying civil engineering at Tufts University. She is focused on geotechnical engineering and is also pursuing a minor in engineering ...

Stormwater runoff carries pollutants into urban waterways, raising water‑quality and flood risks. Engineers say proposed rollbacks of Clean Water Act provisions could worsen these risks. Ever since ...

Courtesy of Granite Construction A coastal view of Highway 1 at Paul’s Slide, a 2023 landslide that was one of several recent failures along the route and involved straightforward mitigation. The Big ...