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Opal Awards

Red carpet at the Opals, the Oscars of the engineering world

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Since 1960 the American Society of Civil Engineers has hosted the Opal Awards, a black-tie gala where members honor the engineers behind some of the world’s most ambitious projects. Correspondent Kris Van Cleave reports from the red carpet, and talks to the year’s biggest winner, Ron Klemencic, lead engineer of a Seattle building project using […]

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High-rise structure efficiency, completion time look different thanks to SpeedCore composite modules

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Purdue engineers are taking building possibilities to new heights with the university’s role in the research and development of an innovative high-rise construction process. Amit Varma, Purdue’s Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering, began work on the steel and concrete composite construction system, called SpeedCore, almost a decade ago with the technique’s creator, Ron

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