A new technology has been developed that can rapidly predict city-scale structural damage even when portions of satellite imagery are obscured by clouds or smoke immediately after a disaster.

Scientists study the world as it is, politicians debate the world they want, but engineers create the world that has never been. Industrialisation, water distribution, electrification, automation and ...

During the past decade, more than 10,000 scientists, engineers, students and other researchers have used DesignSafe to advance research on natural hazards. As the nation’s premier cyberinfrastructure ...

Resilience to disasters is not optional — it is essential to public safety, national security, economic prosperity and quality of life. Rice University’s civil and environmental engineering department ...

Engineering has built the most spectacular wonders of the modern world, but what happens when the technology that people trust their lives with fails? Premiering on HISTORY Saturday, April 11 at 10 PM ...