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Failure Becomes an Option for Infrastructure Engineers Facing Climate Change
Posted by Daily Climate: Jennifer Weeks on June 27th, 2013
Daily Climate: Civil engineers build rugged things designed to last for decades, like roads, bridges, culverts and water treatment plants. But a University of New Hampshire professor wants his profession to become much more flexible.
In a changing climate, civil engineer Paul Kirshen argues, facilities will have to adapt to changing conditions over their useful lives – and, in some instances, be allowed to fail. A leading example of this approach: The Netherlands' Room for the River project: Decades of thinking...
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For Engineers, Climate Failure Becomes an Option
Posted by Daily Climate: Jennifer Weeks on March 25th, 2013
Daily Climate: Civil engineers build rugged things designed to last for decades, like roads, bridges, culverts and water treatment plants. But a University of New Hampshire professor wants his profession to become much more flexible.
In a changing climate, civil engineer Paul Kirshen argues, facilities will have to adapt to changing conditions over their useful lives -- and, in some instances, be allowed to fail. A leading example of this approach: The Netherlands' Room for the River project: Decades of thinking...
On Cape Cod, climate change casts a wide shadow
Posted by Daily Climate: Jennifer Weeks on January 28th, 2013
Daily Climate: Near the outer tip of Cape Cod, a small cottage faces west across the bay toward the mainland. Built in 1950, it measures 776 square feet – smaller than many one-bedroom apartments. It has no garage and sits on less than an acre of land at the end of a dirt road.
The house is for sale. List price: $1.5 million.
The price tag is extra-high because this is one of a few hundred private properties within the Cape Cod National Seashore, a 40-mile stretch of undeveloped coast that runs up Cape Cod's...