I was posting up with a friend back in my hometown over the holidays when the subject of his line of work came up. My compadre - whom I’ve known since we dominated the local pee-wee hoops circuit - ...

Geotechnical engineering is concerned with the engineering properties of earth materials. Geotechnical engineers investigate the soil and bedrock below a site to confirm their engineering properties ...

I grew up in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, a small French-speaking town in Québec, Canada. In Québec, almost all the electricity (close to 97%) comes from hydroelectricity due to its extensive freshwater ...

Ridhi Umaselvan, ICE CityZen Award 2025 winner, reflects on the work experience that convinced her civil engineering was for ...

Every year, Nigeria experiences building collapses, road failures, and environmental disasters — many of which could have been prevented. The common factor? Ignoring geotechnical engineering ...

Geotechnical and structural designers for the Jeddah Tower had to work through more than two dozen iterations before they aligned the design of the foundations with the design of the 1-kilometer-plus ...

The Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering (COGGE), established in 2001, is the focal point within the National Academies for scientific, technical, and public-policy issues pertaining ...

Seminar abstract: The Millennium Tower is a 58-story reinforced concrete building that was constructed in San Francisco, California between 2005 and 2009. The tower is founded on an embedded, ...

Engineers India’s Geethanjali Koppolu wins the ‘Outstanding Woman Engineer’ award in the Construction Sector at the CE&CR ...

Geotechnical engineers evaluate and stabilize foundations for buildings, roads, and other structures. Earthquakes and geothermal activity are of special interest to geotechnical engineers. Most ...