What civil engineers are reading this week

• Civil engineers can help firms and advance careers by speaking up, leader says

  After staying silent early in his career, Terracon executive Jeffrey Magner learned that speaking up saves time, money, and relationships. Read his career advice in the latest View from the C-suite installment.

• New York City seeks BQE czar to rebuild ramshackle triple-cantilever

  The city’s department of transportation seeks an engineer to run one of America’s most challenging infrastructure projects: fixing the decrepit triple-cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

• Construction’s latest economic reports point upward, thanks in large part to data centers

  Nearly every metric highlighted the strength of the artificial intelligence buildout and weakness in other private project activity.

• Trust in teamwork catapults Penn State to victory at ASCE UESI Surveying Competition

  The Nittany Lions are tops among a field of 19 finalists and 130 total teams. “Our skill sets complemented each other’s very well. We all trusted each other,” says team captain Kyle Kullman.

• Live updates: Officials say temporary shoring has stabilized buckling NYC high-rise

  New York officials are “confident” that the installation of temporary shoring is stabilizing an under-construction midtown Manhattan building that was evacuated after structural columns buckled.

• Johns Hopkins’ ‘breadth of expertise’ secures ASCE sustainable solutions title

  With Johns Hopkins University’s unusually small civil engineering department – only 10 students in the team’s co-captain’s graduating class – winning required a wide range of specialties.