A New Climate for Infrastructure

Climate change is complicating the job of infrastructure design. For example, civil engineers designing levees and pipelines must now take into account the impact of prolonged periods of drought that may be linked to a changing climate. Serious drought conditions threaten any structure in contact with soil, notes Engineering360 in this article about how engineers can tailor infrastructure design to a changing climate. The article takes a look at some of the structural design challenges posed by climate change, as well as how the American Society of Civil Engineers and the research community have responded thus far.

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