News
Tue, 06/24/2025 | Miami Herald
CEE professor weighs in on Surfside collapse
Professor Dawn Lehman is featured in a Miami Herald article discussing the structural flaws that may have led to the Surfside condo collapse.
Tue, 06/03/2025
CEE partners with NIST on national building safety investigation
CEE engineers tested full-scale slabs for NIST’s Surfside collapse investigation, helping improve national building safety standards.
Wed, 01/15/2025
How a CEE professor used new technology to stabilize a tower that couldn’t stop swaying
CEE’s Paolo Calvi implemented a cutting-edge technological solution to stabilize a new Italian control tower in the Port of Genoa, ensuring safety from high winds.
Wed, 12/11/2024
Research highlights
CEE teams collaborate with Seattle and Tacoma partners to tackle toxic runoff and enhance bridge safety.
Mon, 05/08/2023
A timber triumph: Seismically resilient and sustainable
CEE researchers including Professor Jeffrey Berman and Ph.D. student Sarah Wichman test a sustainable and seismically resilient 10-story mass timber building designed to withstand Seattle earthquakes.
Tue, 04/04/2023 | College of Engineering
Capstone collaborationsLearn about capstone projects, including one undertaken by CEE students in partnership with the City of Fife to design an evacuation structure for lahar and tsunami events.
Tue, 03/21/2023 | Seattle Times
Op-ed advises “preparing wisely” to avert earthquake disaster
Co-authors and professors Jeffrey Berman and Marc Eberhard point out that Seattle area faults are not unlike those in Turkey — and thousands of older buildings are still vulnerable.
Thu, 02/09/2023 | UW News
Experts discuss earthquake in Turkey and Syria
Three UW experts, including CEE Professor Dawn Lehman, have provided quotes in response to the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6.
Tue, 11/22/2022
Bridging the gap: Assessing the impact of a M9 earthquake on bridges
It may be impossible to predict when a M9 earthquake may strike the region, but researchers have succeeded in predicting a crucial detail: the likelihood that bridges will be passable following such an event.
Tue, 05/10/2022
2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning collaboration
The team at the Miami Herald has received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting. The award honors the media team’s investigation into the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South, for which CEE Professor Dawn Lehman was a key technical contributor.
Tue, 04/05/2022
A RAPID transformation
CEE's RAPID facility continues to advance data gathering protocols and procedures in the aftermath of natural disasters, thanks to a $6 million NSF renewal grant.
Tue, 03/01/2022
Earthquake engineering certificate program
A new certificate program in earthquake engineering will be offered by the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department starting in spring quarter 2022.
Wed, 01/05/2022 | Miami Herald
Collapse reconstructed: Champlain Towers South
The Miami Herald worked with CEE professor Dawn Lehman to analyze building plans and test theories about what went wrong using computer models.
Fri, 09/03/2021 | UW News
Redesigned levees during Hurricane Ida
CEE faculty member Mike Motley explains how the redesigned levee system in New Orleans helped mitigate the impact of Hurricane Ida.
Mon, 08/23/2021
Faculty, alumna receive PCI award
Assistant professor Paolo Calvi, professor John Stanton and alumna Otgonchimeg “Audrey” Davaadorj received the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s 2021 Charles C. Zollman Award.
Fri, 08/13/2021 | DesignSafe-CI
Predicting tsunami debris flow
CEE researchers are developing a numerical approach to understand and predict the chaotic nature of tsunami debris flow.
Fri, 07/09/2021 | UW News
‘We need to be patient’ — UW’s Dawn Lehman on the collapse of the Champlain Towers South
Following the Champlain Towers South building collapse, CEE professor Dawn Lehman has been studying photographs, videos, drawings, reports and permits to investigate why the structure failed.
Tue, 06/15/2021
From research to reality
A bumpy journey turned to smoother sailing after engineers decided to utilize research from CEE’s Structural Research Laboratory when designing the wharf for the new Mukilteo Ferry Terminal.