Organization News

Over the past thirty years, the Narragansett Bay Commission (NBC) has collaborated with stakeholders to design and construct an overflow system to hold combined water and wastewater until it can be... Read More

A boom in demand for industrial and logistics development has spurred developers to increasingly consider sites that require tall retaining walls to meet their facility needs. Retaining wall design... Read More

The completion of Lyrik Back Bay – Air Rights Parcel 12, in 2024 makes it the first successful air rights project over the Massachusetts Turnpike/Interstate I-90, in 40 years since the construction... Read More

Construction of Phase 1 of the Maffa Way and Mystic Avenue Superstructure Replacement Design Build (DB) Project is nearing completion. Construction of Phase 2 is expected to begin this Fall with final... Read More

Elevators are crucial to the accessibility and serviceability of a building or a structure; they transport people and freight throughout its height. As a building ages, its owners may elect to study... Read More

Some communities have planted gardens on unused bridges and reused them as gardens. This article describes engineering and organizational issues associated with three flowering bridges. Read More

Overview of the recently completed Route 68 (Gardner Road/Main Street) Complete Streets improvements in Hubbardston, MA. The plan was driven by the Town’s vision to revitalize its center for local businesses... Read More

The BSCES Government Affairs & Professional Practice (GA&PP) Committee has been meeting bi-weekly to discuss ongoing efforts, including legislative outreach activities, fiscal year 2025 events, and... Read More

For five decades, Boston City Hall Plaza hosted the city’s largest gatherings from sports celebrations to political rallies to seasonal cultural festivals. But it lacked human scale, offered limited... Read More

BSCES members judged the Student Steel Bridge competition in this year’s ASCE Northeast Student Symposium at UNH. As always, the conference was well attended by ASCE Student Chapter members from over... Read More

The Climate Resilience Design Standards Tool (the Tool), championed by the ResilientMass Action Team (RMAT) through the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and their technical consultants... Read More

Creating a sense of belonging on a college campus isn’t a groundbreaking goal — but extending that vision into the greater community is. Middlesex College, a public institution in central New Jersey,... Read More

Alternative delivery methods like design-build, progressive design-build and public-private partnerships are continuing to reshape how projects are brought to life in the A/E/C industry. Through their... Read More

The $137 million York Street Pump Station and Connecticut River Crossing project is the cornerstone of the Springfield Water and Sewer Commission’s IWP, including a new 62 MGD combined sewer pump station,... Read More

When per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were detected above the regulatory limit in two drinking water wells in the Town of Millis, Massachusetts, the wells were immediately taken offline.... Read More

Conceived as a gateway entry to the Emerald Necklace parks by Fredrick Law Olmsted and designed by Brookline’s first Town Engineer, Alexis Henry French, the Carlton Street Footbridge was erected in... Read More

Built to speed travelers from one point to the other, highways in the United States historically were planned and constructed with little concern for the communities they displaced or divided. Now —... Read More

Holly Brown did not begin her career with safety at top of mind. An admitted risk taker in her younger years — she spent two months in frigid Antarctica creating the first-ever U.S. map of the Dry Valleys... Read More

Managing transit programs is a complex craft, and delivering programs on time and within budget is easier said than done. In my decades of experience working on highly complex transit programs around... Read More

With development projects moving into less suitable land, Keller and key leaders in the geotechnical design and construction industry continue to address how to navigate increasingly difficult site... Read More