Something is happening this week at the American Society of Civil Engineers that hasn’t happened in nearly 12 years.
ASCE has a new leader at the Headquarters building in Reston, Virginia.
Peter O’Neil officially started as ASCE’s new chief executive officer March 30. This is big news for not only the organization but for the entire civil engineering profession.
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Civil engineering risk management is not only an important topic, it can be a nebulous one.

Gray areas, assumptions, communication breakdowns, in other words: a real mess.

So ASCE has launched a new Risk Management Community of Practice – a space ...

It’s snow season in a lot of places right now – which means salt season.
And salt season isn’t great for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is contaminated water.
So, Connie Fortin and Tim Olsen have a new idea.
They call it low salt design – a way of reducing the need for salt from the very start of the project.
Fortin is a low salt strategist and O...

After more than a decade of experience building teams that build airplanes, Lisa Schleuter has added a new job title to her resume: children’s book author.
Schleuter has published a new book called Ollie the Civil Engineer aimed at entertaining and inspiring young children.
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AI takes up a lot of oxygen in the room right now.
But when it comes to specific impacts, do we have a strong industry-wide understanding? Does anyone know?
Mark Coates, vice president of the Infrastructure Policy Advancement team at Bentley Systems, set about finding out.
His group helped