Historical Hardening: Preserving Salt Lake City’s Iconic Concrete Structure

The six-year renovation of the historic Salt Lake Temple reached a milestone Tuesday with the pouring of concrete for 6-foot-deep footings that will protect the building from future earthquakes. Read more.

GIS modeling results show that the greatest increase in shoreline hardening risk is projected for the 0.25 m of SLR scenario, which would be mainly associated with residential lands and beach parks.

Historical Hardening

The practice of systems hardening is a set of tools, techniques, and best practices that reduce vulnerability in technology applications, infrastructure, and firmware. By removing superfluous …

Historical Hardening: Preserving Cincinnati’s Iconic Concrete Structures

Like many innovations that become part of society for a time, concrete was forgotten about and rediscovered later. Our timeline shows how this material continued to evolve even after its rediscovery.

Archaeological discoveries at Gobekli Tepe reveal that early humans built rudimentary concrete structures for worship purposes. This marked the first time that people lived in communities centered around an activity instead of nomadic hunter-gatherers.

Ancient Egyptians

The ancient Egyptians are famous for their pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphic writing. But they also developed advanced engineering and scientific techniques.

The Egyptians used the annual …