Recently you may have seen that the American Society of Civil Engineers published their 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, something they publish every 4 years, giving US infrastructure a D+ grade for the second time since 2013. The group estimates the cost for the US...
Nearly 20 years ago the city of Dallas began to enact a project to not only beautify, cleanup, and help protect the shoreline of the Trinity River from flooding. Called the Trinity River Project, the project includes around 10,000 acres worth of sports fields, trails,...
After the 1830s places of rest began to become more park-like, and started to reflect the romantic notion of nature as molded by man. Plots were uniformly spaced out, with land being set aside for future lots; grounds were kept immaculate with walkways added to...
If CAD were a person its parents would have been Patrick Hanratty and Ivan Sutherland. Hanratty was a computer scientist working for GE in 1957 when he helped develop Pronto (Program for Numerical Tooling Operations), the first commercial CNC programming system. CNC...
Born in 1929 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in what was then British India, Fazlur Rahman was a structural and architect and noted father of “tubular” design. As a young man in India Khan studied civil engineering at Bengal Engineering College and gained a Bachelor of Civil...
The Challenges of Engineering Nature One of the main challenges for civil engineers in the zoo industry is how to create structures that make up close engagement between humans and animals possible while keeping both parties safe and comfortable. There are many...
