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Many smaller communities do not have the financial resources to construct, rehabilitate, or expand centralized wastewater treatment plants. Decentralized wastewater treatment syste[...]
While Google’s broad-reaching influence in the digital world is inescapable, the internet giant is also making its mark in the physical worlds of architectural design and urban pla[...]
New Tools Increase Efforts to Protect Forest Biodiversity During Land Development As demand for infrastructure increases, so does the risk for the loss of significant biodiversity [...]
If trials of e-highways are successful, traffic engineers have a unique opportunity to reinvent both city streets and interstate highways.   As we get closer to 2020, we are gettin[...]
Even though the design for what may become the Upper West Side’s tallest tower is receiving accolades in the trade media, current residents warn they will oppose the project. Even [...]
With the escalating cost of flood insurance, homeowners often look to land surveyors for Elevation Certificates to support their requests to change their properties’ flood zone sta[...]
Replacing a bridge that is part of an already-congested interstate is challenging; add in the restrictions of constructing the replacement span over an environmentally waterway and[...]
A new poll conducted by Stanford University gauges public perception about the vertical axis wind turbines. Vertical axis wind turbines are smaller and quieter than more broadly us[...]
Innovations in Land Surveying: New Technology May Save Both Lives and Money A new LiDAR application developed at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute may help the Texas Depar[...]
A team of structural engineers and architects faced multiple challenges when modernizing and retrofitting buildings that once served as the studios for Warner Brothers. How did the[...]
Recent innovations in technology, energy efficient lighting, and design have set the stage for media architecture.  What effect will digital facades have on the urban built environ[...]
As the use of underground space for construction and design becomes more commonplace, engineers around the world often debate the benefits and disadvantage of tunneling vs. open cu[...]