David Odeh, principal of Odeh Engineers/WSP, is helping bring to life ASCE's Future World Vision program through designing what he calls “future-ready” buildings.
In what the civil engineers gtroup termed "the most significant change" to the 7-22 standard's flood load provisions since the inception of ASCE 7. the new supplement ties flood hazard mitigation to a
structure’s risk level, and sets the hazard area for most risk
categories to the 500-year floodplain for determining flood loads.
An agreement by the American Society of Civil Engineers and National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration outlines plans to ensure U.S.
infrastructure is designed to be more resilient and “climate-ready.”
Henry led the American Society of Civil Engineers to create an historic charter, also adopted by other industry groups, that compels members to report bribery, fraud and kickbacks on projects and was named an ENR Newsmaker in 2006.
Detailed analysis of the catastrophic 2021 Texas winter storm finds systemic flaws in the state's electric sector contributed to a "cascade of failures" that overwhelmed the power grid.
Civil engineers' group highlights interdependence between different infrastructure sectors and examines how the fragility of one piece of infrastructure can have cascading impacts.