Predicting Underwater Landslides Before They Strike
Complex networks of underwater infrastructure — such as pipelines and risers beneath offshore energy sites — are vulnerable to submarine landslides. Texas A&M researchers have developed a new method to improve landslide prediction using sequential site characterization data and advanced modeling techniques. Credit: Getty Images A new model uses site characterization data and Bayesian statistics to protect offshore energy infrastructure from submarine landslides. Below ocean wi...
Video: Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction - Building Sector Solution
The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction notes that about 70 percent of urban infrastructure that will be needed to accommodate a fast-growing world has yet to be built.
New ASCE Press Book Aids Stakeholders on Excavation Projects
Reston, Va. –Every day in the United States construction projects involve thousands of excavations. The new ASCE Press book, Underground Utilities for Construction Practitioners and Homeowners offers guidance for stakeholders to reduce damage to underground utilities during excavation. Authors Ahmed Al-Bayati and Louis Panzer stress that safe excavation is a shared responsibility. In this publication, they provide an overview of the location process that is generally followed across the United S...
New ASCE Manual of Practice 144 Provides a Framework to Plan and Design for Hazards
Reston, Va. – Natural disasters such as earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms, affect a large portion of the world’s population. Infrastructure resilience and sustainability are critical system characteristics to prepare and endure as a society. ASCE’s new book, Hazard-Resilient Infrastructure: Analysis and Design, MOP 144, provides guidance and underlying framework for creating consistency across hazards, systems, and sectors in the design of new infrastructure systems and in enhancing the...
Video: Down to Earth 15
Surveying takes place in the field, where boots get muddy measuring boundaries and collecting data. Watch how real surveyors get real work done under challenging conditions, rugged terrain and lurking danger. Only on Down to Earth. Registration Link: https://lp.microdrones.com/webinar-do...
Video: National Building Museum: Lawn Construction Time-Lapse
Summer is here, which also means the arrival of the National Building Museum's 2019 Summer Block Party installation, Lawn. Watch construction for the fun exhibit in Washington, DC, with EarthCam's 4K time-lapse movie. Watch as the 30,000 square foot immersive playground covered with soy-based grass, furniture made out of recycled milk jugs and hammocks suspended from the ceiling comes to life.
Epiroc Presents 6th Sense, a Game Changer for Smarter Mining and Infrastructure Operations
Stockholm, Sweden: Epiroc, a leading productivity partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, presents 6th Sense, a new approach that combines digitalization and automation to boost customers’ performance. There is a growing need for the mining and infrastructure industries to look to digital technologies to enhance productivity, sustainability and safety. 6th Sense is the Epiroc way to optimize customers’ processes by connecting machines, systems and people using automation, info...
Video: Statue of Liberty Museum Construction Time-Lapse 2016-2018
Exciting progress is being made for the new Statue of Liberty Museum in New York. EarthCam construction cameras are documenting each step of this incredible project with high-quality webcam imagery, including gigapixel panoramas. See progress from 2016 to 2018 with this 4K time-lapse movie. Continue to track progress until the museum's opening in May 2019 at https://www.libertyellisfoundation.or.... Courtesy of EarthCam
Materials Industry Members Prod Congress to Fix Trust Fund as Part of Tax Measure
The National Stone Sand & Gravel Association used a Sept. 24-28 legislative and policy forum in Washington, D.C., to try to build support for an effort to use tax reform discussions to find a long-term revenue stream to close the projected shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund. Ahead of the meeting, Laura O'Neill-Kaumo, NSSGA's senior vice president for government and regulatory affairs, said her group's members would send "a small army of advocates" to Capitol Hill "and urge Congress to use ta...
A Year After Finding Site & Buying Land, IKEA Submit Plans to Broomfield, Co for Opening 2nd Denver-Area Store Summer 2019
Conshohocken, pa – IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today announced it officially submitted plans to the City and County of Broomfield to open the Swedish company’s second Denver-area store in Summer 2019. Last year, IKEA announced it had identified Broomfield for its other Colorado location and purchased the land, but did not have an exact timeframe for submitting specific store plans or for actually opening the store. Now, pending approvals, construction of IKEA Broomfiel...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
