NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad and ASCE President Maria Lehman (center, end of table) with other leaders from the group and federal agency and University of Maryland at the Feb. 1 signing of a ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology started working toward its goal of a wind-load standard for tornado-resistant design after a tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011. A ...

The updated ASCE/SEI 7-22 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures includes the first-ever criteria for tornado-resistant design. “We’re not designing tornado ...

For the first time in the U.S., national construction standards will address the risk of tsunamis. The American Society of Civil Engineers has developed a new edition of ASCE 7-16, the first to ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, Seismic isolation, ASCE/SEI 7, Collapse performance, Risk assessment, Probabilistic analysis Abstract: This report presents an analytical study of the seismic ...

Xiong (Bill) Yu, the Opal J. and Richard A. Vanderhoof Professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was named 2023 Civil Engineer of the Year by the Cleveland section ...