Disaster Response
From site assessments to recovery work, civil engineers play a crucial role in disaster response, ensuring that communities build back safer and more resilient.
Drones can provide sky-high views during storm search and rescue operations.
When disasters strike, civil and structural engineers can play critical roles on search and rescue teams because they understand the built environment.
The ASCE Texas Section Beyond Storms Infrastructure Network Resilience Task Committee assessed the aftermath of February 2021’s severe winter storms in Texas, determine what happened and why, and develop recommendations for future change.
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.
Despite the region's post-Sandy preparation, the historic rainfall that arrived with the remnants of Hurricane Ida overwhelmed portions of the transportation system.
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PG&E is undergrounding the lines in the $20 billion project to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires in the state.
A new ASCE book reveals findings from the investigation into the 2020 failures of the Edenville and Sanford dams.
ASCE leaders consider how Hurricane Ida has affected their communities.
What can civil engineers learn from Hurricane Ida?
Sept. 11, 2001, did not mean the end of tall buildings, but the attacks did change the civil engineering world in other critical and even surprising ways.