The Great Civil Engineering Overhaul (ASCE Press) - Softcover

Wallace, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0784416222 ISBN 13: 9780784416228

Verlag: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

The Great Civil Engineering Overhaul details the effects that climate change has had and will continue to have on civil infrastructure and what alterations are required to enable civil engineers to work under changing climate conditions, resulting in what amounts to an "overhaul" in the civil engineering discipline.

Topics include

• Response to a harsh and changing climate;
• Net zero carbon emissions imperative;
• Risks of business as usual;
• Current and future sustainability quadrant;
• Consequences of unsustainable development;
• Climate change and deep uncertainty;
• Carbon mitigation and adaptation needs for both;
• Methodologies for making civil infrastructure sustainable and climate resilient;
• Role of civil engineers in the race to net zero carbon; and
• How civil engineers can make a difference.

Author William Wallace has compiled this book as a resource for all civil engineers interested in sustainability, regardless of subdiscipline, providing a sound understanding, new ideas, and a path forward to designing and delivering projects that can operate reliably, safely, and effectively under changing climate conditions.

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Bill Wallace, ENV SP, F.ASCE, has more than 40 years of professional experience, including 30 years in environmental engineering and management. He is the author of Becoming Part of the Solution: The Engineer's Guide to Sustainable Development, published by the American Council of Engineering Companies. He has served as a liaison delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, president and member of the governing board of Engineers Without Borders – USA, and chair of ASCE's International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure in 2014. He is the inventor and lead designer of the Envision sustainable infrastructure rating system, recipient of the Engineering News-Record's 2013 Award of Excellence and the ASCE President's Medal in 2014. Currently, he teaches a course with the University of Florida titled, "Principles of Sustainable Engineering Design."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: American Society of Civil Engineers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0784416222
• ISBN 13: 9780784416228
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 394
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande