As storms increase in frequency and fury and droughts drain groundwater and invite wildfires, communities nationwide are taking a hard look at whether their infrastructure, building codes, and businesses are up to the challenge. And they are turning to engineers for solutions that will increase resiliency and mitigate disaster.

Read More

Filed under: Special Features | Comments Off on Resilience Engineering: The New Normal

Tags: ASEE Prism magazine, civil and environmental engineering, Climate Change, flooding, infrastructure, resilience engineering, Weather

Hurricane Sandy’s devastating floods exposed the need to re-engineer coastal communities for resilience and sparked a novel method to generate innovative design solutions: Crowd-sourcing. The six competition winners are now putting their ideas into practice.

Read More

Filed under: Special Features | Comments Off on Crowdsourcing Coastal Resilience

Tags: Civil Engineering, coastal engineering, crowdsourcing, design contest, Environmental Engineering, flooding, Hurricane Sandy, New York, Public Policy, rebuild by design, resilient structures