Sustainability & Resilience
Sustainability and resilience are fundamental to everything civil engineers do.
As longtime ASCE leader and Houston Director of Public Works Carol Haddock, P.E., M.ASCE, said, “It’s not just about having resilient infrastructure. It’s about having resilient communities.”

NCA5 is a landmark report under any circumstances, but this edition – with ASCE members among the chapter authors and data informed by the recent ASCE-NOAA collaboration – is particularly important for civil engineers.

Now that ASCE has published ASCE/COS 73-23: Standard Practice for Sustainable Infrastructure, providing guidance for infrastructure owners to develop and implement sustainable solutions throughout a project’s entire life cycle, the focus turns to implementation.

Ray Bert reviews Danielle Arigoni’s “Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation.”

The solar-panel covered structure can generate 1.2 million kWh annually.

Two sports venues and a shoreline stabilization project take home top honors.



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The American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) today released a first-of-its-kind standard, ASCE/COS 73-23: Standard Practice for Sustainable Infrastructure, which provides guidance for infrastructure owners to develop and implement sustainable solutions through a project’s entire life cycle.

ASCE has released a first-of-its-kind standard, ASCE/COS 73-23: Standard Practice for Sustainable Infrastructure, which provides guidance for infrastructure owners to develop and implement sustainable solutions throughout a project’s entire life cycle.

The complex, in Zhejiang, China, is inspired by area forests and tea fields.

The new airport terminal combines sustainability, structural efficiency, Midwestern hospitality, and a focus on community development.

The waterfront tower boasts a pedestrian plaza and triple-height clubhouse.