Sacramento’s Railyards Fast-Tracks Bidding To Qualify for $20 Million in Federal Stimulus
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Archive for March, 2009
AIA/ALA Name Winners of Library Design Awards
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How Will Historic Buildings Fare During the Recession?
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Statistical road safety
What possible connection could there be between an eighteenth century British Presbyterian minister and preventing road traffic accidents in Hartford, Connecticut. Everything, according to a report in the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications.
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Stairwell Evacuation Study Finds ‘What We Know We Don’t Know’
Most of the time, we use the stairs in buildings – especially in high-rise structures – only as a back-up for faster elevators and escalators, but during a fire or other emergency, stairs become our primary passage to survival. In a new study, researchers at NIST examined what we know about how stairs work as [...]
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How the E. Stadium Bridge Gets Monitored
The idea was to check the bridge weekly for additional displacement of the fifth beam to determine if the traffic re-routing had allowed the beam to stabilize at the 7/8-inch deflection, plus give the rest of the bridge a visual once-over.
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U awards $4.85M to environmental research
The University of Minnesotas Institute for Renewable Energy and the Environment awarded a total of $4.85 million in grant funding Monday to seven projects aimed at impacting the commercial development of renewable energy.
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35W beam failed first, lawyer says
Engineers hired by attorneys for 117 survivors and relatives of victims in the bridge disaster disagree with the NTSB and say the collapse was preventable.
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Nation’s public works gets low marks from engineers
The nation needs to spend $2.2 trillion on road, bridges, schools and other public projects over the next five years or face a crumbling future, a national engineering association warns.
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