Effective master planning is never a one-size-fits-all process. While architects and planners focus on program and vision, ...

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The Romans were master builders. Many of their works, from the Pantheon (pictured above) and the Colosseum in Rome itself, to the Pont du Gard in southern Gaul and the equally impressive aqueduct of ...

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New Orleans’ hurricane and storm damage risk-reduction system is much improved since Hurricane Katrina, but protecting lives will continue to require an emphasis on evacuation, especially until 2011, ...

Our civil engineering undergraduate program emphasizes open-ended problems, global awareness and undergraduate research. The program is characterized by a high degree of faculty-student interactions, ...

Fox News in Southwest Florida quoted Michel Bruneau, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, in a story about how to rebuild Southwest ...

When completed in 1930, the structure — stretching 1.5 miles long and rising 210 feet high — was the largest earthen dam in ...

Civil engineers design and supervise the construction of the buildings and infrastructure that make up our world: roads, bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, transit systems and water treatment facilities.