Civil and Construction Engineering

New analysis shows heavy financial cost and heavy energy cost

Professors Norm Jones and Jim Nelson have been selected as joint recipients of the Brigham Young University 2023 Sponsored Projects Recognition Award. Both professors are recognized as pioneers in scientific visualization, water resources modeling and hydroinformatics. In collaborations spanning three decades they have received $21.6M in external funding from the Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Highways Administration, NSF, NASA, NOAA, and others leading to 132 publications. They have developed desktop and cloud applications used by thousands of organizations worldwide and founded the Provo-based software and engineering company Aquaveo. They have advised 18 PhD, 150 MS, and hundreds of undergraduate students. They gratefully acknowledge these students, numerous colleagues and mentors, their families, and the unique mission of BYU for their success.

In the U.S. more people have drowned at low-head dams in the last 50 years than from all the large dam failures during the same time period

On urban parcels in particular, irrigation is difficult to measure and manage because of so many variables in landscape size, shape, quality, and water use behavior. Annelise Capener, a graduate student in the Sustainability Lab, is studying how remote sensing can help.

Prof. Kyle Rollins has been selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to receive the H. Bolton Seed Medal. The Seed Medal is awarded for cumulative distinguished contributions in teaching, research, and practice in the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Four years of research is culminating in findings that can save thousands of lives