Taking Notice: Is that a Bridge or a Culvert?
Drivers intent on getting from Point A to Point B probably don’t notice how many times their vehicles travel over culverts and bridges along the route. And that’s good: unless the structures are designed to capture attention and add to the scenery, bridges and culverts are purely functional, allowing traffic to pass over ravines, bodies of water, roadways, railroad… Read More »
Tags: Arch Culvert, Box Culvert, Bridge, Bridge Design, Culvert, Culvert Design, Federal Highway Administration, Pipe Culvert, Pipe-arch culvert
Monitoring Structural Safety of Existing Buildings
Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted on the Florida Engineering Society website (www.fleng.org) and is republished here with permission. By Hisham Sunna, PhD, PE The catastrophic and tragic partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South Condominium in Surfside, Florida, on June 24, 2021, is an event that sent shockwaves and elicited immediate reactions from… Read More »
Tags: building codes, building failure, building inspection, NIST, recertification guidelines, Structural Inspection, vertical structures
Traffic Safety Strategies, New Guidance Lead to Positive Impact
By Andy Rowell, PE, PTOE Imagine your community having zero serious injuries or fatalities from traffic crashes. A lofty goal, indeed, but communities can implement strategies and new federal guidelines to help reach that goal. New Traffic Safety Guidance The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently published the new National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS). This document… Read More »
Tags: Crash Data, Crash Issues, Highway Safety Improvement Program, HSIP, Intersections, National Roadway Safety Strategy, NRSS, Roadway Safety, Safe System Approach, Traffic, Traffic Crashes