Infrastructure - Richard A. Rula School of Civil & Environmental Engineering - Bagley College of Engineering - Page 4
Cementing success: Sustainable concrete at MSU’s Davis Wade Stadium wins recognition
An engineering team affiliated with Mississippi State is receiving multiple national and international recognitions for an innovative concept. First, their idea to use more sustainable cement and recyclable by-products in developing a concrete used in the recent expansion and renovation of Davis Wade Stadium was honored by World of Concrete, one of the largest international construction…
GOP budgets quiet on highway funding
Budgets that were released this week by Republican leaders in the HOuse and Senate offer little relief for a transportation funding shortfall that is threatening to stall construction projects this summer. Lawmakers are scrambling to come up with a way to pay for an extension of a transportation funding measure that is currently scheduled to…
ASCE Helps Provide a Bi-Partisan Budget Plan to Deter Cuts in Infrastructure
The President proposed a detailed, six-year plan. (The Gop) may not like how it was funded, but at least he did it. The Republican budget will send a ripple of fear and concern across this country because we are facing a cliff. The Republicans have no plan on the table and their budget demonstrates that. You are…
ASCE Fights in GOP for Long-Term Infrastructure Budget
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, we need to invest over $3 trillion by 2020 in our infrastructure. at a time when millions of Americans are working for starvation wages and when the federal minimum wage is an abysmal $7.25. We need to increase wages. We also need to pay equity in this country so…
Cable-Stayed Bridges Emerge as Preferred Option
Cable-Stayed Bridges Emerge as Preferred Option As the United States undertakes efforts to upgrade its ageing infrastructure, the cable-stayed methods fast becoming the preferred design option for new bridge construction. The cable-stayed method involves the use of cables suspended from one or more pylons to support the bridge deck. The design has a lengthy history, with…
Can We Reverse-Engineer the Environment?
The Sanitary and Ship Canal was heralded as a triumph of that heroic age of American civil engineering in which technological progress and industrial might promised to deliver us from nature’s tyranny. If we could reverse the course of rivers, what couldn’t we bend to our will? In 1955, the American Society of Civil Engineers named…
Hyperloop Transportation System Possible
Tesla and SpaceX co-founder Elon Musk’s idea of a “Hyperloop” transportation system might eventually turn into a reality within a decade, according to a California startup. The Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) said that the futuristic transportation system will be used to connect several key cities in the United States. After about a year of its…
Columbia River Bridge of 1917 Remains Deathtrap as Infrastructure Crumbles
Oregon and Washington had spent more than a decade devising a compromise to replace the steel-girded mess on Interstate 5. The structure dates to 1917 during Woodrow Wilson’s presidency and is too low for the tallest river-going derricks and dredges, so operators frequently have to raise part of the span, halting traffic. Rush hour starts…
US Power Sector Needs $2.1 Trillion in Investment by 2035, Says IEA
The United States needs to spend $2.1 trillion over the next 30 years to modernize the electricity grid and prepare for more renewable energy, according to a report from the International Energy Agency. While the country’s “energy policy landscape has fundamentally changed” since 2008, it still faces some serious barriers to reaching its carbon reduction…
Pipeline to deliver big economic punch in Iowa & South Dakota
A Texas company would spend $1.1 billion and $820 million in Iowa and South Dakota, respectively, to build a crude oil pipeline across the two states, according to a new analysis of the project. Energy Transfer Partners has asked state regulators in four states for permission to construct a 1,134-mile pipeline to move 570,000 barrels of…