SciFri Radio: Civil Engineering

SciFri Radio: Building Bridges From Plastic Shampoo Bottles
A New Jersey company transforms plastic waste into beams sturdy enough to support tanks and trains.

SciFri Radio: Deconstructing A Skyscraper
Author Kate Ascher dissects the architecture and engineering of a modern skyscraper.

SciFri Radio: Building ‘The Big Roads’
Writer Earl Swift traces the evolution of America’s superhighway system.

SciFri Radio: Living In A Geodesic Dome Home
Outside the box: visit Kevin Shea’s dome home.

SciFri Radio: Building ‘The Big Roads’
A new book looks at the people and history behind America’s superhighways.

SciFri Radio: A Look Back At 9/11 In ‘I Heard The Sirens Scream’
A Pulitzer Prize winning science writer gives her account of the days after 9/11.

SciFri Radio: Creating Reservoirs Under Roads And Parking Lots
Porous pavement allows water to pass down to the water table, rather than run off into storm drains.

SciFri Radio: Struggling To Contain A Rising Mississippi
Ira Flatow and guests discuss whether boxing in the Mississippi is a sustainable long-term solution.

SciFri Radio: Rumbling Underground, An Engineering Feat
Ira Flatow and guests discuss how engineers carved out Manhattan to build the New York City subway.

SciFri Radio: Gulf Oil Spill: Engineering Approaches
The oil continues to gush from the sunken Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf -- and the official solution for stopping the flow could take...

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