"Book Review: Review of Infrastructure Health in Civil Engineering" by Anil K. Agrawal, Journal of Bridge Engineering, May 2012—Review of groundbreaking two-volume technical treatise coauthored by Weidlinger Principal Mohammed Ettouney and Sreenivas Alampalli read more

"Major Times Square Redesign to Start in Spring" by Mathew Katz, DNAinfo.com, May 1, 2012—Weidlinger Principal Jim Quinn comments on the upcoming $40-million reconstruction of Times Square, for which Weidlinger is providing final design services. read more

"In Detail: Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center" by Gwen Webber, the Architect's Newspaper, April 18, 2012—Profile of the new Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, a curvilinear steel-framed structure with a heavily planted green roof designed to unify the building with the surrounding gardens; Weidlinger provided structural engineering services.

"Brooklyn Botanic Garden Green Roof Captures Water, Camouflages Building and Complicated Construction" by Nadine M. Post, ENR.com: Engineering News-Record (via GreenSource), April 16, 2012—Weidlinger's Cheng Gu describes engineering challenges involved in designing the 10,000-square-foot green roof of the new Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center read more

"Getting Ready to Move," produced by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 19, 2012—Chronicles the preservation and removal of Juno, the largest classical sculpture in the U.S., from her former Brookline, Massachusetts, home in preparation for relocation to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Weidlinger repaired and helped install the statue) view video

"A New Bostonian, Size XL, Age 1,900" by Ellen Gamerman, the Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2012—Profiles the colossal sculpture of the Roman goddess Juno recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, describing plans for her repair and relocation (Weidlinger repaired and helped install the statue) read more

"From Opening Thunder to Closing Whimper: Predicting Bomb Shockwaves, Building Vulnerability, and Evacuation Priority," EurekAlert.org, January 13, 2012—Examines the capabilities of the Urban Blast Tool developed by Weidlinger for the Department of Homeland Security to predict damage patterns if a bomb were to detonate in lower Manhattan read more

"A Bridge Built to Sway When the Earth Shakes" by Henry Fountain, the New York Times, February 6, 2012—Weidlinger was the structural designer of the deck and suspension system for the new signature span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, profiled here read more

"DHS Simulation Software Predicts Bomb Blast Paths" by Elizabeth Montalbano, InformationWeek, February 3, 2012—Spotlights the Urban Blast Tool software developed by Weidlinger Associates for the Department of Homeland Security, which is used to predict the impact car or truck bombs would have on the streets of lower Manhattan read more

Employee Holiday Photo Competition Results

"Multihazard Design: How to Prepare for Dual Disasters" by Mohammed Ettouney and Anurag Jain, ENR.com: Engineering News-Record, October 10, 2011 read more (subscription required)

Rebuild, directed by Eddie Rosenstein, presented at the summit "Remembrance, Renewal, Resilience," hosted by the Center for National Policy and Voices of September 11th, September 8, 2011—Highlights safety measures incorporated into the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site by the PANYNJ; Weidlinger's Najib Abboud interviewed; Michael Udvardy served as technical advisor view video

"Washington, DC, Engineers Assess Quake Damage, Seismic Codes" by Bruce Buckley, ENR.com: Engineering News-Record, August 25, 2011—Weidlinger's Jerry Rasgus quoted regarding the seismic performance of Washington, DC, buildings after the earthquake of August 23, 2011 read more (subscription required)

"Reactions to the Washington, DC, Earthquake," The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU-FM, August 25, 2011—Weidlinger's Jerry Rasgus interviewed regarding potential structural damage resulting from the earthquake that shook the East Coast on August 23, 2011 listen to program

"Defensive-Design Aid Coming" by Nadine M. Post, ENR.com: Engineering News-Record, May 5, 2011—Weidlinger's Robert Smilowitz quoted regarding guidelines under development by the American Society of Civil Engineers' Structural Engineering Institute for the performance-based design of structures to resist disproportionate collapse read more (subscription required)

Infrastructure Health in Civil Engineering, CRC Press, Mohammed Ettouney's groundbreaking new two-volume book on structural health monitoring, scheduled for release in September 2011, is available for preorder.

"Missing from the Checklist on the Safety of Nuclear Structures" by Mohammed Ettouney, Structure, August 2011 read more

"Legacies: Roosevelt's Room" by Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker, August 2011—Profile of FDR Four Freedoms Park read more

"Extending Jefferson's Vision" by Weidlinger's Peter DiMaggio, Civil Engineering, April 2011 read more

"Engineering the City" Mann Report Building, April 2011 – profile of Weidlinger president and CEO Raymond Daddazio

"Life after Fukushima" by Pam Hunter, Pam Radtke Russell, Debra K. Rubin, and Bruce Buckley, ENR: Engineering News Record, March 23, 2011 – Weidlinger's Mohammed Ettouney quoted regarding evaluation of the aging structure of nuclear reactors

"No Bridge Too Far in Daddazio’s Pursuit of Perfection" by Roland Li, Real Estate Weekly, February 9, 2011 – profile of Weidlinger president and CEO Raymond Daddazio