Vice-President says project will “enable working Ghanaians…to purchase a home”. First 6,500 of 200,000 affordable and sustainable homes to be built in Ghana’s capital Accra. Part of UNOPS Social Impact Investing Initiative which will deliver more than…
KAI Build Selected General Contractor for Half-Acre Urban Park in St. Louis City’s Historic Laclede’s Landing District
(St. Louis, MO) The Great Rivers Greenway has selected KAI Build as the general contractor for The Katherine Ward Burg Garden project, the first step…
SCISYS Enables Welsh Government to Transform Common Land and Town or Village Greens Registers in Wales
Chippenham, Wilts, UK – Following a competitive procurement exercise SCISYS UK Ltd., has been chosen as the Welsh Government’s preferred software…
Video: Magnitude 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake
Structural engineers from Miyamoto International conducted earthquake reconnaissance in the Searles Valley immediately after California’s magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 earthquakes on July 4 and 5. From an engineering perspective, Ridgecrest and Trona, the small…
It’s Official: Louisiana is Sinking
BATON ROUGE, LA - Louisiana is officially sinking. It has been 29 years since the National Geodetic Survey measured the state’s subsidence. After completing four absolute gravity observations this past year, with the help of LSU’s Center for GeoInformatics…
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…
Propex Geosolutions Receives Carbon Footprint Verification for PYRAMAT 75 HPTRM
Chattanooga, Tenn. (July 1, 2019) – Propex GeoSolutions recently became the first High Performance Turf Reinforcement Mat (HPTRM) manufacturer to verify the carbon footprint of its erosion control solutions. The cradle-to-grave carbon footprint of PYRAMAT®…
New ASCE Report Promotes Understanding of Subsurface Utility Engineering
Reston, Va. – Subsurface utility engineering (SUE) is ideally knowing as much about a subsurface project prior to starting the design process; incorporating technology to identify, characterize, and map underground utility facilities. ASCE’s new book,…
USGS Research Helps Identify Impacts to Amphibians in the Prairie Pothole Region from Historic Oil and Gas Production
Advancements in wastewater disposal practices in recent years have greatly reduced ecological risks from oil and gas development, but impacts at some previous energy production sites still persist. Recent USGS research, however, may help prioritize some mitigation…
Volunteers from Across South Carolina to Clean Ditches in Flood-Ravaged Nichols, Thanks to Governor, Floodwater Commission
NICHOLS, S.C. — The population of Nichols, S.C., is expected to at least double Saturday as volunteers from across the state continue to sign up to help clean ditches and improve the town’s drainage system after two hurricanes in three years caused catastrophic…
