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Engineer Team Deploys to Haiti
(Taken from a USACE press release.) In support of the national response efforts led by the U.S. State Department, USAID, and U.S. Southern Command, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has deployed an initial team of four engineers in […]
U.S. Structural Engineers begin on-site damage assessments in Haiti
Published 20 January 2010-Homeland Security Newswire U.S. engineers are going to Haiti to study the earthquake and its ramifications for structural engineering; the structural engineers emergency response committee (SEER) of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) — the […]
Foundation Repair? Understanding Residential Slab Underpinning
Slab on Grade Foundation Systems gained popularity on a mass scale after World War II. Many returning veterans needed affordable and reliable housing in primarily suburban areas of the United States. To build homes in volume, developers and builders chose […]