What civil engineers are reading this week

• As hurricane season opens, wetter storms drive need for resilient infrastructure

  For the next six months, civil engineers face the uncertainty of wetter hurricanes and increased flood risk. Here’s how stormwater managers are adapting aging infrastructure.

• A simple – yet expensive – way to climate-proof the grid: Bury the power lines

  Power lines across the country weren’t designed for a changing climate, with much of the nation’s grid built more than half a century ago. In northern Michigan, some utilities want to change that.

• How this Florida city climbed to the top of our list of Best Places to Be a Civil Engineer

  Tampa’s charms went largely unnoticed for a long time, but the secret is officially out. See what factors catapulted the burgeoning city to the head of ASCE’s annual index.

• Taiwan opens world’s longest single-mast bridge

  Taiwan cuts the red ribbon on a giant infrastructure project its own construction team once deemed impossible: the 3,000-foot-long Danjiang Bridge.

• High-speed rail proposal aims to transform US passenger rail investment

  The House legislation pairs rail expansion with housing, safety, and economic development goals designed to reshape how regions grow around transit.

• Watching ‘Born in the USA’ amid dying American infrastructure

  In a sobering last trip to a closing movie theater in an all-but-abandoned nearby mall, ASCE’s resident engineer-humorist Brian Brenner ponders what’s next for structures that technology has made archaic.