Hurricane Matthew’s rampage through the Caribbean, the Bahamas and up the southeast U.S. coast tested storm and flood forecasters, utilities, contractor preparations and civil engineering works for more than 1,500 miles and, in some cases, found them wanting.
Final guidance from the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) for the first time will require federal agencies to consider the potential impact of construction projects on climate change.
Congress is wrestling with its first energy policy update since 2005, and there is some concern that it may not be passed this year. That may not be all bad.
Water scarcity stemming from the effects of climate change and population growth could spur large-scale migrations, spark conflict and cost some regions up to 6% of their gross domestic product, according to a new
report from the World Bank.
In 2009, the construction and engineering industry was in a freefall, yet Kim Shinn, the chief sustainability consultant with TLC Engineering for Architecture, was focused on a much smaller problem: How to give a presentation that wouldn’t put his audience to sleep.