resilience
Creating More Resilient Solutions in Baltimore Neighborhood
For nearly 20 years, residents and businesses in the Cherry Hill neighborhood in Baltimore, MD, have faced chronic flooding, which has damaged homes and cars and disrupted the lives of residents. During this time, even minor rainstorms flooded the streets ...
NACWA Leading the Way for Regulatory and Climate Resilience Strategies
Sustainability and climate resilience have profoundly impacted the water industry in the last two decades. While partnering with major water and wastewater utilities and agencies throughout my career, I have seen firsthand how these elements have evolved water operations and ...
Lessons from COP28: The Opportunity for Infrastructure
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently launched the Buildings Breakthrough at COP28, the United Nations’ annual climate summit. Aiming for near-zero emissions and climate resilient buildings by 2030, this initiative marked a pivotal moment in the global commitment to ...
How Zero-Emission Vehicles Can Serve as the Ultimate Portable Charger
In April, a deadly ice storm struck Quebec and Ontario, Canada, resulting in two fatalities and significant damage to property and infrastructure, while also leaving more than one million residents in Canada’s two most-populous provinces without power for several days. ...
Five STV Projects Win ACEC New York EEA Awards
STV’s technical excellence was recently recognized by the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC New York) with five projects taking home honors in the organization’s 2024 Engineering Excellence Awards. Find out more about this year’s winners: Grand ...
STV Director of Sustainable Design Honored by Industry Organization
STV’s Director of Sustainable Design Lauren Alger, P.E., ENV SP, was named an outstanding woman in construction by the Professional Women in Construction New York Chapter (PWC NY). The organization recognized Alger’s leadership in sustainable design as part of its ...
STV Launches Embodied Carbon Action Plan
The built environment’s impact on global CO2 emissions is undeniable, with building operations accounting for 27 percent and embodied carbon – CO2 that is released during the extraction, transportation, manufacturing, construction, and disposal of building materials – contributing an additional ...
STV Structural Engineer Joins ASCE Flood Committees
Matthew Sangen, P.E., S.E., an associate and engineer for STV’s national buildings practice, was recently selected to serve on two American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) code committees as a Young Member Representative. ASCE Standard 7 is an integral part ...
Sustainability and Resilience Experts Present at Transportation Research Board Workshop
Three of STV’s environmental, sustainability and resilience experts recently presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Resource Conversation and Recovery Committee’s 2023 Summer Workshop. Hosted by the Stevens Institute of Technology, the two-day workshop centered around a theme of “making ...
Filling in the Gaps: STV’s CM Team Provides Vital Support at New Jersey’s Long Slip Canal
For over a century, the Long Slip canal connected the nation’s rail lines to New York City. Adjacent to Hoboken Terminal in New Jersey, the canal ferried freight barges that carried cargo across the Hudson River into Manhattan. But for ...
Battery Park Resilience Project Wins Award from ASCE
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Metropolitan Section selected the Battery Park City Ball Fields & Community Center Resiliency Project as the recipient for the 2022-23 Sustainability Project of the Year Award. On behalf of the Battery Park City ...
Advocating for Greener, More Equitable Neighborhoods
For seven years, I have had the honor to volunteer for the Gowanus Canal Conservancy (GCC), a nonprofit organization that truly embodies STV’s purpose to “make communities better.” In the case of the GCC, we execute on that purpose by ...
Nature-Based Solutions for Stormwater Runoff
In its efforts to address the effects of climate change on infrastructure, the Biden administration recently released a roadmap for natured-based solutions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural ecosystems within infrastructure improvements. Well-designed, nature-based solutions are essential tools in ...
New Research Paper Looks at Resilience at Critical Facilities
In a new research paper that was funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), STV Vice President, Technical Director and Engineering Chief Christopher Cerino, P.E., F.SEI, DBIA, examines best practices to improve disaster resilience for our communities ...
Two STV Projects Win NJAA Awards for Improved Resilience
STV was a key member of two award-winning project teams that were honored by the New Jersey Alliance for Action (NJAA). Both the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s (PANYNJ) Holland Tunnel Salt Damage Repairs and Storm Mitigation ...
Designing Structures Around Coastal Inundation Events
STV Vice President, Technical Director and Engineering Chief Christopher Cerino, P.E., F. SEI, DBIA, a renowned expert in resilience and adaptability for climate change, is playing a key role in efforts to update codes and standards featured in the FEMA ...
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Creating More Resilient Solutions in Baltimore Neighborhood
For nearly 20 years, residents and businesses in the Cherry Hill neighborhood in Baltimore, MD, have…
Industry Trends, STV Stewardship
NACWA Leading the Way for Regulatory and Climate Resilience Strategies
Sustainability and climate resilience have profoundly impacted the water industry in the last two decades. While…
STV Perspectives
Lessons from COP28: The Opportunity for Infrastructure
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently launched the Buildings Breakthrough at COP28, the United Nations’…
Future Focused
How Zero-Emission Vehicles Can Serve as the Ultimate Portable Charger
In April, a deadly ice storm struck Quebec and Ontario, Canada, resulting in two fatalities and…
Project News
Five STV Projects Win ACEC New York EEA Awards
STV’s technical excellence was recently recognized by the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York…
Employee News
STV Director of Sustainable Design Honored by Industry Organization
STV’s Director of Sustainable Design Lauren Alger, P.E., ENV SP, was named an outstanding woman in…
Industry Trends
STV Launches Embodied Carbon Action Plan
The built environment’s impact on global CO2 emissions is undeniable, with building operations accounting for 27…
Employee News
STV Structural Engineer Joins ASCE Flood Committees
Matthew Sangen, P.E., S.E., an associate and engineer for STV’s national buildings practice, was recently selected…
Employee News, Social Responsibility
Sustainability and Resilience Experts Present at Transportation Research Board Workshop
Three of STV’s environmental, sustainability and resilience experts recently presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB)…
Project News
Filling in the Gaps: STV’s CM Team Provides Vital Support at New Jersey’s Long Slip Canal
For over a century, the Long Slip canal connected the nation’s rail lines to New York…
Project News
Battery Park Resilience Project Wins Award from ASCE
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Metropolitan Section selected the Battery Park City Ball Fields…
STV Stewardship
Advocating for Greener, More Equitable Neighborhoods
For seven years, I have had the honor to volunteer for the Gowanus Canal Conservancy (GCC),…
Roundtables
Nature-Based Solutions for Stormwater Runoff
In its efforts to address the effects of climate change on infrastructure, the Biden administration recently…
Employee News, Industry Trends
New Research Paper Looks at Resilience at Critical Facilities
In a new research paper that was funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology…
Project News
Two STV Projects Win NJAA Awards for Improved Resilience
STV was a key member of two award-winning project teams that were honored by the New…
Employee News, Industry Trends
Designing Structures Around Coastal Inundation Events
STV Vice President, Technical Director and Engineering Chief Christopher Cerino, P.E., F. SEI, DBIA, a renowned…