Building a Sustainable Future: Insights from Civil Engineering - Page 4 of 7 - Sustainable Civil Engineering

Re-Designing for Sustainability

by Sustainable CE | Jul 10, 2022 | Sustainable

I am currently working on several projects at different stages of design development that convert the existing built environment back to its natural state, or at least varying degrees thereof. For example, one project will convert a section of the road into a park. At...

All Construction Starts with a good Survey

by Sustainable CE | Jul 6, 2022 | Civil Engineering

Usually, I try to avoid words like “all” or “any,” but sometimes they are necessary. As the title of this article implies, good surveys are crucial for construction projects. This statement includes both boundary and topographic ones. The former ensures that...

The Urgent Need to Design and Build Community Gardens

by Sustainable CE | Jun 30, 2022 | Sustainable

There are plenty of warnings, empirical data, and even our own experiences regarding the price of food, availability, and quality (i.e., genetically modified.) However, even with all this information, we are doing very little to solve these issues as a local and...

ADA Ramps and Paths are important for all of us

by Sustainable CE | Jun 26, 2022 | Civil Engineering

Years ago, when the Americans with Disabilities Act passed, many of us in the civil engineering field saw it as just another bureaucratic requirement, which would generate more challenges for us trying to design a sidewalk, path, curbs and gutters, and so on. And it...

Urban Greening in the (20)20s

by Sustainable CE | Jun 25, 2022 | Sustainable

For many of us, the 20s are still synonymous with the pandemic, which is understandable. However, the start of the decade, partly due to the pandemic, also marks a period in history when people understood the importance of open spaces and fresh air. Maybe it took the...

Adding space in your home “vertically”

by Sustainable CE | May 13, 2022 | Architecture, Civil Engineering

Like many other San Francisco residents, we are continuously looking to somehow gain more space within our home’s footprint and in our backyards. And with the advent of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) some time ago, people have been trying to build out their garages...

Civil Engineering for “Green” Projects

by Sustainable CE | May 5, 2022 | Civil Engineering, Sustainable

Years ago, I was in a novelty shop in San Diego and saw a joke book for civil engineers titled “1,001 Ways to ‘Pave’ the Earth.” It was, of course, a spoof on Joanna Yarrow’s book “1,001 Ways to Save the Earth.” At the time, I thought the title was funny, but I was...

Repurpose and Reuse

by Sustainable CE | Apr 27, 2022 | Sustainable

My family and I recently moved and decided to jettison a lot of the belongings we had been hoarding for years. The hoarding was, consciously speaking, unintentional. However, we had also consciously avoided dealing with the excess items we owned. And once we addressed...

The Incredible Benefits of Rain Gardens

by Sustainable CE | Apr 21, 2022 | Sustainable

As its name suggests, a rain garden is a garden that is irrigated primarily, if not exclusively, with stormwater runoff; even in a drought and in areas where it does not rain that much. And this is because native, drought-resistant, and xeriscaping are utilized to...

Rain Gardens are Attractive and Very Sustainable

by Sustainable CE | Apr 14, 2022 | Sustainable

Whether your project is a new home, a new commercial, business, or industrial park, improving landscape improvements, or even a public works project, incorporating a rain garden is a great way to implement sustainability into a construction project. As the name...

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