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[trondaron]

I'm looking for help finding peer edited/reviewed sources of civil engineering type news. Really I'll start by taking a look at any topics, but in particular these are of interest:
- Road design/maintenance
- Ambient/Environmental impacts and studies
- Politically related civil engineering news

I'd prefer free resources, but realize generally most things need to be paid for.

Thank you for any suggestions on where to read and learn more about this occupation!

 

[Ron]

Try ASCE's "Civil Engineering News"

 

[trondaron]

Thank you for the response! I'm looking through the ACSE site (pubs.asce.org and

http://www.asce.org)

and am having trouble finding the section you call Civil Engineering News.

Also I'm hoping for publications that exist on an International Scale, or apply specifically to Central America.

 

[RWF7437]

You are having trouble finding it because Civil Engineering News, or CE News is NOT published by ASCE. Rather it is published by Stagnito. Google CENews and you'll find it.

It is free but the cost is that it is mostly advertising or thinly veiled advertising of technical articles designed to promote many of the advertisers products. They are worth something but are not peer reviewed or unbiased. So just read critically and decide for yourself.

Stagnito also published Structural Engineering News. THE SAME caveats apply.

The ASCE publishes Civil Engineering but it is "free" only to members. Membership is at a low rate for students but increase markedly for regular (older) members. Again read it critically as it will include much advertising AND relentless importuning to upgrade your membership, recruit new members, join additional specialty fora, etc., etc.


As Deep Throat told Woodward... follow the money.

good luck

 

[RWF7437]

http://sefora.org/

 

[RWF7437]

While I'm on this soapbox;

Watch out for "Greenwashing" and "Notional Engineering" which is published mainly by Art History Majors ( Dropouts who got jobs as regulators of something ) based on No Scientific Evidence whatever. By the way, these people consider "whatever" a complete sentence.

good luluuuck.............sorry fell off the soapbox.

 

[kelowna]

For construction related news in several countries:

http://dcnonl.com/

http://www.journalofcommerce.ca/

http://www.nce.co.uk/

http://www.roadsbridges.com/

http://www.revistabit.cl/revistabit/

http://www/admintools/

This link has also construction and engineering related news plus a lot of links to other webpages by engineering subject. I suggest you spend a bit of time browsing through it, you are likely to find a few interesting links

http://icivilengineer.com/

 

[trondaron]

Again, thank you for the replies!

I am now wading through the sea of links that have been supplied. This was far superior to my attempt to search through google which provided me with sites that looked like only advertising fronts.

Thank you again!