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The American Society of Civil Engineers gives New York's infrastructure a C grade in new report

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The New York chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released its 2022 Report Card for New York Infrastructure , issuing the state's infrastructure an overall grade of C. The rating is a slight improvement from its 2015 grade of C-.

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Corrugated House / monotrum

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& The project is to renovate a structure made of corrugated pipe, a civil engineering material, Completed in 2023 in Japan. Images by Yoshiro Masuda. Hotel in renovated house made of corrugated pipes.&

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Take a look at Reiser+Umemoto's completed Kaohsiung Port Terminal

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Image courtesy Fei & Cheng Associates The firm explains: “RUR’s work with 3D Urbanism comes from a long-standing set of explorations challenging the monofunctionally of infrastructure projects which are traditionally conceived and designed to do a single task well, much in the vein of civil engineering.

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NASA explores potential for green roofs to lower temperatures in cities

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Related on Archinect: 10 green rooftop spaces we liked this week “As cities grow and develop, they need to make good decisions about their infrastructure, because these decisions often last for 30 or 50 years or longer,” said Christian Braneon, a climate scientist and civil engineer at Columbia University and co-author of the study.

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Innovations and Potential of CPC Panels in Decarbonizing Concrete Construction: Interview with Josef Kurath

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ArchDaily interviewed Professor Josef Kurath from the Department of Architecture Design and Civil Engineering at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), who collaborated with CPC Construction in developing these concrete panels.

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Cal Poly Pomona students win big at Sustainability Decathlon with 'Roots House'

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Named Roots House, the recently sold market-ready home is the culmination of three semesters of work by more than 100 students along with faculty advisors CPP Civil Engineering Professor Sunai Kim and Architecture Professor Juintow Lin.

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The U.S. is about to begin the largest dam removal project in history

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The removals are among the $3 billion worth of dam projects being funded under the new Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, though experts still say it isn’t enough to address the 15,600 dams across the country that are currently classified as “high-hazard potential structures” by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2021. (..)