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2025 Report Card emphasizes need for sustained investment
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Steel piles replace concrete for electrical infrastructure foundations
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Community resilience starts with people
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ASCE awards Levin Alfred Noble Prize
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45-year NASA senior aerospace scientist and ASCE life member Chamis dies at 94
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Importance of resilience in communities comes down to the people living in them
ASCE’s Pathways to Resilient Communities toolkit, just released on Capitol Hill by Society leaders, not only makes the case for resilience but also helps map an action plan.
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ASCE 2020 president aims to bring engineering concerns to global stage as leader of WFEO
K.N. Gunalan – he says please call him “Guna” – applies a concern for global sustainability to his candidacy for president-elect of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations.
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US, UK firms in deal to develop small nuclear reactors at former coal-fired power station
Holtec International, EDF UK, and Tritax Management have agreed to develop Holtec’s SMR-300 reactors at the former Cottam coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire.
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Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern reach deal to coordinate service
The railways’ new domestic intermodal service will tap Union Pacific’s network to connect western and southern markets with Norfolk Southern’s facilities in Louisville, Kentucky.
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After devastating Texas summer floods, what can engineers do to foster change, bolster safety?
The flash floods in Texas in July that claimed about 140 lives have shifted the conversation around flood infrastructure. What steps do civil engineers with expertise in this area suggest?
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Seattle’s human population is up, but its car population isn’t
Between 2017 and 2023, the city added 35,000 households but just 3,300 cars, new census data reveals – news that is music to urbanists’ ears.
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