David Odeh, principal of Odeh Engineers/WSP, is helping bring to life ASCE's Future World Vision program through designing what he calls “future-ready” buildings.
In what the civil engineers gtroup termed "the most significant change" to the 7-22 standard's flood load provisions since the inception of ASCE 7. the new supplement ties flood hazard mitigation to a
structure’s risk level, and sets the hazard area for most risk
categories to the 500-year floodplain for determining flood loads.
An agreement by the American Society of Civil Engineers and National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration outlines plans to ensure U.S.
infrastructure is designed to be more resilient and “climate-ready.”
Henry led the American Society of Civil Engineers to create an historic charter, also adopted by other industry groups, that compels members to report bribery, fraud and kickbacks on projects and was named an ENR Newsmaker in 2006.
Detailed analysis of the catastrophic 2021 Texas winter storm finds systemic flaws in the state's electric sector contributed to a "cascade of failures" that overwhelmed the power grid.
Marc L. Levitan recalls being at first enthralled by the sound and light show of the thunderstorms and then traumatized by the flooding in his neighborhood in Bucks County, Pa., during 1972’s Hurricane Agnes. He was 10.