Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, Standards ASCE/SEI 7-16, provides the most up-to-date and coordinated loading standard for general structural design.
This new edition of ASCE 7, which supersedes ASCE/SEI 7-10, describes the means for determining […]
Tag: American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCE Takes Report Card Grades and Solutions to Lieutenant Governors
How bad is our infrastructure? Probably worse than you ever imagined. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has prepared an Infrastructure Report Card that details the problems the country faces with updating, restoring, improving and making our infrastructure safe […]
As 2016 Fades Into History…
It’s been a long year but we survived it. The elections are over and the world is looking ahead to see what emerges and evolves.
As you might expect all the industry associations have published congratulatory statements to president-elect Donald Trump. […]
AEM Launches Competition to Address $3.6 Trillion Infrastructure Problem in America
“Infrastructure Vision 2050” Challenge Competition to Award $150,000
to Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) today announced the Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge— a three-phased, crowd-sourced competition to award a total of $150,000 in prizes for innovative ideas to […]
ASCE’s Comments Regarding House Passage of Six-Year Highway & Transit Bill
On November 5, 2014, newly-minted House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) shepherded through his first piece of major legislation with bipartisan passage of a six-year, $325 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill. The Surface Transportation Reauthorization & Reform (STRR) Act of 2015 […]