The urban experience is helped or hindered by elements that are ulitmately the responsibility of Civil Engineers. Despite this obvious statement, many of the urban form frustrations we experience day to day in our travels about our neighbourhoods or cities were decisions made by engineers or those in municipal or utility organizations that act under the authority of engineers
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With the failure of the suburban experiment, rising house prices and a greater desire to be in the downtown, designers…
The planners out there might get upset to know that an engineer has crashed their party, then again, who knows, maybe they’ll…
It seems as if we are commonly told that the answer to whatever problem our communities are facing is more…
Communities around North America are waking up to a changed world. Our expectation for continuous improvement of the systems that…
I am a big advocate of having alternative modes of transport, after all motor vehicles are an expensive* and dirty…
In recent months we have seen emergencies and natural disasters strike communities around the world. Every emergency unfolds differently, but…