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 ...

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

Instead of having to start over with every river basin, AI can generalize information using past readings. "Rather than ...

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.

Bruneau, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, is the author of a new book, “The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach ...

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.

A massive global study uncovered a striking paradox: even as total burned land has dropped by more than a quarter since 2002, human exposure to wildfires has skyrocketed. Africa accounts for a ...

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 ...

He is the editor-in-chief of the ASCE Natural Hazards Review Journal, associate editor of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, serves in the executive committee of the ...

Starting in the department of railway construction in 1920, HIT’s School of Civil Engineering (SCE) has come a long way to become a leader in high-performance structural engineering, multi ...