http://www.icivilengineer.com/editor@icivilengineer.comen-ushttp://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9138Civil engineering professor and earthquake expert Brady Cox will travel to Haiti Saturday, Jan. 30, as part of a national team of engineers who will study the effects of the massive earthquake that struck the small Caribbean nation on Jan. January 29 2010 00:14:30http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9135As an environmentally sustainable alternative to current algae production methods, the researchers propose situating algae production ponds behind wastewater treatment facilities to capture phosphorous and nitrogen — essential nutrients for growing algae that would otherwise need to be produced from petroleum. January 28 2010 23:59:17http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9134A Bay Area civil engineer who specializes in earthquake construction has just returned from inspecting many of the damaged buildings in Haiti. And what he saw in Haiti, he has never seen before -- not on this scale. January 28 2010 23:57:34http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9131The massive 7.3-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday could have resulted in less fatalities and destruction with better-engineered buildings and structures. January 28 2010 23:51:45http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9130Professor Hashem Akbari is studying the urban heat island; the phenomenon whereby a metropolis is usually significantly warmer than its rural surroundings. January 28 2010 23:49:57http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9129Rachel Davidson, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a $796,255 grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop models that support the design of a regional natural disaster risk management system. January 28 2010 23:47:47http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9128University of Washington researchers and global engineering firm CH2M Hill today unveiled Greenroads, a rating system for sustainable road design and construction. January 28 2010 23:46:16http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9122A paper by Dr Indrasenan Thusyanthan, former Lecturer in the University of Cambridge Geotechnical Research Group and Dr Gopal Madabhushi, Reader in Geotechnical Engineering, has won the Bill Curtin prize awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for the Best Paper in the 'ICE Civil Engineering' magazine. January 12 2010 05:22:29http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9118The “Parasols” in Seville feature components that are designed to be glued instead of bolted together. To prevent the adhesive from melting, it needs to withstand temperatures of up to 60 degrees. Researchers have optimized the adhesive's resistance to high temperatures. January 12 2010 05:02:25http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9111Sprays of dirt flew out of a soil box that held a retaining wall as it violently shook from a simulated 7.4 magnitude earthquake. The wall was put to test recently by engineers at the UC San Diego Englekirk Structural Engineering Center, which has the largest outdoor shake table in the United States. December 16 2009 04:51:07http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9108Wil Laska of the Science Technology Directorate (S T) has sought out innovative technologies from industry, academia, and government to meet this challenge. Any proposed system, he dictated, had to not only be capable of quickly closing breaches, but also be suitable for scenarios in which the breach may be difficult or impossible to reach with conventional construction equipment. December 16 2009 04:44:08http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9107The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a unit of the U.S. Department of Energy, is midway through construction of a $64 million project that lays claim to that title. December 16 2009 04:42:16http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9099Advances in sensors, concrete, nanotech are making structures – from bridges to office towers – safer, stronger and better looking. November 25 2009 04:23:09http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9088A new study done for the metropolitan area of Vancouver, British Columbia (host of the 2010 Winter Olympics) , compares neighborhoods' "walkability"—the degree of ease for walking—with local levels of pollution, and reveals some interesting findings. November 10 2009 19:58:35http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9086EPA is testing a variety of different permeable pavement materials and rain gardens in the parking lot at the agency's Edison, N.J. facility, which houses offices and its laboratory. Most major sources of pollution going into our waterways are well-controlled, but pollution runoff from hard surfaces remains a complicated problem. November 03 2009 15:59:06http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9084The protective cover consists of four engineered layers, including three layers of compacted soil and a biointrusion rock barrier that will keep burrowing animals out of the former disposal areas. Together, these four layers and the native plants will control water infiltration, thus isolating the wastes from the accessible environment. November 03 2009 15:51:57http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9082Researchers from the Buildings and Hydraulic Engineering Department of the Granada University are working on the design of energy dissipaters, that is, devices that act as the fuses of an electrical system during an earthquake, causing the buildings to better withstand the movement. November 03 2009 15:47:47http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9081A new study compares neighborhoods’ walkability (degree of ease for walking) with local levels of air pollution and finds that some neighborhoods might be good for walking, but have poor air quality. November 03 2009 15:46:08http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9070Researchers are exploring whether nanoscale materials -- so named because they are as small as 1/100,000 the width of a human hair -- can be cleanup assets. October 26 2009 16:22:30http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/news.php?id=9063Amit Varma, an associate professor of civil engineering is working tirelessly at Purdue’s Bowen Laboratory, he has been testing and analyzing the structural integrity of a new nuclear shield building technology. October 26 2009 16:08:14