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Researchers pave the way for stronger, greener concrete by adding biofuel by-products
Kansas State University civil engineers are developing the right mix to reduce concrete’s carbon footprint and make it stronger. Their innovative ingredient: biofuel by-products. “The idea is to use bioethanol production by-products to produce a material to use in concrete as a partial replacement of cement,” said Feraidon Ataie, doctoral student in civil engineering, Kabul, [...]
American Society of Civil Engineers honors scholar of water issues
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) awarded Mohammad Karamouz, the director of the environmental engineering program at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), its 2013 Service to the Profession Award. The prize acknowledges his work with ASCE’s Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), his innovative research, textbooks, editorial contributions to the ASCE journal [...]
What Math Can Tell Us About Technology’s Spread Through Cities
Sociologists have been studying social networks for some 50 years, trying to understand how groups of people connect to each other and how new ideas and tools travel between them. Our understanding of these networks is rapidly evolving, though. “Now,” says Nick McCullen, a researcher based in the U.K., “physicists and mathematicians have been getting [...]
Engineers set out to track comfort, temperature of buildings on campus through Twitter posts
Sitting in class sweating through your cotton shirt, knowing the kid next to you can sense your anxiety. It’s almost as bad as shivering yourself into a coma. Buildings on campus are unpredictable and have left students and faculty dressing for any of the four seasons. Enter assistant professor of civil engineering Tat Fu and [...]
Researchers awarded $3.7 million for research on sustainable development of Kuwait’s built environment
A team of MIT researchers spanning four MIT departments — architecture; civil and environmental engineering; earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences; and nuclear science and engineering — has been awarded a $3.76 million grant for a research project on sustainable development of Kuwait’s built environment. The project is being funded through the Kuwait-MIT Center for Natural [...]
New green technology squeezes out building leaks
A new building-sealing technology developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis, will get a real-world test today at a Habitat for Humanity home in Stockton, Calif. Developed by scientists at the UC Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center, the green technology is designed to take the guesswork out of sealing building leaks, which account [...]
Statistical Technique Identifies All Possible Causes of Severity in a Traffic Accident
University of Granada researchers have developed a new statistical technique that enables an exhaustive analysis of all possible causes that increase the severity of a traffic accident. The research, based on two data-mining studies (Latent Class Clustering and Bayesian Networks), means that traffic accidents can be measured much more precisely and, furthermore, demonstrate certain relations [...]
Algeria: Researchers make bricks from waste, desert sand
Algerian and Malaysian researchers have designed cheap eco-friendly bricks that can be made from waste materials. Population growth in many urban areas of the developing world is outstripping available housing, prompting interest in making bricks from cheap and durable local materials. Fifty six per cent of the African population is expected to live in urban [...]
Low-Cost Techniques For ‘Earthquake-Proofing’ Homes
Since 1980, 18,300 people worldwide have died in homes that have collapsed because they were not engineered to be earthquake-proof. Just recently, a leading engineer visiting Christchurch in New Zealand as it rebuilds advocated seismic ratings for buildings. Now academics from Imperial College in London are developing new techniques that will allow people in poor [...]
B.C.’s best engineered projects honoured
ngineering excellence in British Columbia was recently honoured at an awards gala in Vancouver, B.C. “What’s really exciting about these awards is the amount of innovation and creativity that engineers bring to a project,” said Keith Sashaw, president and CEO of the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies of British Columbia (ACEC-BC). The 24th Annual Awards [...]
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