SALT LAKE CITY - Orbit Irrigation Products today released new survey data revealing Americans' attitudes towards water consumption. The findings show that while most people desire to contribute to conservation efforts, they are often using more water…
Sponsored Content: Better Outcomes Begin with Better Collaboration
Sponsored by: Design better civil infrastructure with OpenRoads, OpenBridge and OpenRail What does it take to manage the infrastructure…
Manhattan’s Irish Hunger Memorial Receives Waterproof Renovation
The Irish Hunger Memorial winds through a rural Irish landscape, with paths carved into a hill thickly lined with native Irish plants and stones imported…
Engineered Solutions: RenewWrap®: Column Repair
Sponsored by: Milliken Infrastructure In June 2016, the South Carolina DOT (SCDOT) was in the midst of building a new interchange at the intersection of I-85/I-385 in Greenville, S.C. During construction, severe localized spalling was found on the cover concrete…
Senior Senate Appropriator Collins Sounds Alarm on Highway Trust Fund
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees transportation programs, warned that the Trump administration's approach to project investment "fails to address the greatest threat to our nation's infrastructure, which…
Economy and Human Welfare to Grow Under IRENA’s 2050 Energy Transformation Roadmap
Berlin, Germany, 17 April 2018 – Increasing the speed of global renewable energy adoption by at least a factor of six – critical to meeting energy-related emission reduction needs of the Paris Climate Agreement – can limit global temperature rise to…
Getting the Lights Back On in Puerto Rico: The Army Corps and Fluor Mount Massive Grid Restoration After Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria, which made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 2017, was the worst natural disaster ever to befall the U.S. commonwealth, and also the deadliest storm of the record-setting 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. With peak sustained winds of 175…
Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Finalists Announced
Chicago, IL: The Structural Engineers Association of Illinois (SEAOI) is pleased to announce the projects that have been selected as finalists in the 2018 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards. This illustrious design competition takes place each year…
Water Tariffs Will Need to Rise by 5.9% a Year to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, New GWI Report Finds
Oxford, UK - A new market report published by GWI has found that water tariffs will need to increase by 5.9% each year in order to generate the $449 billion of annual investment required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal on water and sanitation by…
EIA Releases April’s U.S. Short-Term Energy Forecast and 2018 Summer Fuels Outlook
Dr. Linda Capuano, Administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, issued the following comments on EIA’s April 2018 Short-Term Energy Outlook and the 2018 Summer Fuels Outlook, which was released on Tuesday: The full STEO can be downloaded…