History & Heritage
Look around and you'll see the achievements of civil engineers everywhere. How did they come to be? What are the greatest examples of these? Who made them possible? Explore civil engineering's deep and rich history and heritage.
ASCE Day celebrates the Society’s founding on November 5, 1852, when 12 esteemed engineers gathered at New York City’s Croton Aqueduct to establish what would become the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Pardon the pun, but it’s hard not to get sedimental.
The American Society of Civil Engineers recognized the Union Chain Bridge that spans the River Tweed between Horncliffe, Northumberland, England and Fishwick, Scotland, as an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. It is the world’s oldest operating suspension bridge.
Inspired by the pandemic, this book is akin to a series of podcasts on paper.
One way civil engineers are saving history is through historic preservation.
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Ted Green, P.E., M.ASCE, has a passion for a piece of United Kingdom history.
Henry Petroski, a brilliant civil engineer, wordsmith, and educator with a great appreciation for history who achieved fame for his many engaging, enjoyable books on engineering and facets of it, has died. He was 81.
Designers used engineering solutions to fashion the site from flat farmland.
Here are five things you didn’t know about George Vancouver and his mapping of the western coast of North America.
Surveying has been around for millennia, but it changed in the 19th century with the increased demands of civil engineering projects such as canals and railroads.