Her research project specifically focused on post-disaster reconstruction using examples from the Philippines to illustrate the complex interactions between humans, disasters and the built environment ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a researcher at Georgia Tech has developed a simulator to understand the failures of the levees that led to widespread flooding.

A civil engineer who studies disaster preparedness and recovery, Professor Terri Norton studies better ways to aid disaster victims during their most vulnerable times.

Mojataba Sadegh, an associate professor of civil engineering, and Seyd Teymoor Seydi, a research assistant, published “Wildfire disasters are increasingly in the news, yet less land is burning ...

While we must continue fighting the pandemic, we cannot neglect to prevent other natural disasters and environmental calamities from wreaking havoc on our communities. Smarter engineering can help.

Afterward, celebratory,” stated UW Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Jeffrey Berman. He’s in charge of designing the building's earthquake force resistance system.

Even though you may mostly hear about fires in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, it’s Africa that has far and away the ...

Standiford recounts the most tragic failure of Mulholland’s career, the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, which killed hundreds in one of the worst civil engineering disasters in U.S. history.

Dean Dashti's research is specifically focused on geotechnical engineering, centrifuge modeling, and designing resilient infrastructure in the wake of earthquakes and climate-related natural disasters ...

It represents the second-greatest loss of life in California’s history, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, and is still considered one of the worst civil engineering disasters in ...

RISEDR is an academic department in the College of Civil Engineering at Tongji University, and consists of seven research division, one experimental center and four industry collaboration centers. The ...

What is Civil Engineering About? Civil engineers are crucial to the sustainable construction, function, and safety of our natural and built environments. Their work, their mark, is everywhere. The job ...