New ASCE Press Publication Offers Insight on  Climate Change and its Impact on Civil Infrastructure

Reston, Va. – The latest title from the American Society of Civil Engineer’s, 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. 

Civil engineers design infrastructure projects in accordance with accepted engineering standards. These standards are based on the long-held assumption that past climate conditions are reliable predictors of future climate conditions. However, climate change has overturned these basic engineering assumptions. Civil engineers are vital to ensuring our built environment is safe, reliable, economical, and long lasting. 

In this ASCE Press title, author Bill Wallace addresses the need for infrastructure to withstand these new harsher climate conditions, to emit little or no greenhouse gases, and to be sustainable and equitable.  He encourages the engineering community to rework the current practices and embrace climate adaptation and use renewable energy sources.  

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.

To purchase online, visit the ASCE Bookstore.

Limited review copies are available for book reviews. Please contact Leslie Connelly at lconnelly@asce.org.

ABOUT THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers represents more than 150,000 civil engineers worldwide and is America’s oldest national engineering society. ASCE works to raise awareness of the need to maintain and modernize the nation’s infrastructure using sustainable and resilient practices, advocates for increasing and optimizing investment in infrastructure, and improve engineering knowledge and competency.