• Honolulu District welcomes 75th commander

    Lt. Col. Lamar Cantelou became the 75th commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu
  • Building the expertise behind installation readiness: Inside ERDC’s EBCx training

    Keeping Army buildings operating at their best helps strengthen installation readiness and resilience, and improvements don’t always require major renovations. Sometimes, they require a trained eye to identify hidden inefficiencies and optimize the systems already in place. Through a recent hands-on training at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), facility managers from across the Department of War and other federal agencies learned just that.
  • In feat of engineering precision, massive concrete beams placed at Chickamauga Lock as Upstream Approach Wall Contract reaches major milestone

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, in partnership with contractor CJ Mahan Construction Co. and McKinney Salvage LLC, has reached a major milestone on the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project under the active Upstream Approach Wall contract by successfully placing the first eight massive, 420-ton precast concrete beams using a dual-derrick barge crane system on the Tennessee River. This current phase of the Upstream Approach Wall contract is on track for completion by early August 2026.
  • From riverbed to museum: Revolutionary War cannon found during Savannah Harbor Expansion Project have a new home

    What began as a dredging operation to deepen Savannah Harbor evolved into what might be one of the most significant underwater archaeological discoveries in Savannah’s history, and now, those artifacts have officially been unveiled at their new home, the Savannah History Museum.
  • Ives Run Beach on Hammond Lake Reopens After Water Quality Tests Confirm Safe Levels

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, has officially reopened Ives Run Beach on Hammond Lake, effective Thursday, July 2, 2026.
  • Corps of Engineers seeks office lease proposals in Nashville area

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 2, 2026) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District invites real estate professionals and property owners to submit potential office space solutions in the Nashville area.
  • US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Wilmington District Publishes Final Letter Report and Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed 403 Wilmington Harbor Deepening

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Wilmington District, in partnership with the State of North Carolina, acting through the North Carolina State Ports Authority (NCSPA), is advising Federal, State, and local governmental agencies and the public, in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), that a notice of availability (NOA) was published in the Federal Register conveying that a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) evaluating proposed transportation improvements for the Wilmington Harbor Navigation Project, is now available to the public.
  • USACE announces virtual CSF Flood Resiliency (Section 216) Study Public Meeting July 10, 2026

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Jacksonville District invites Project Delivery Team members, stakeholders, partners, and members of the public to attend a virtual Project Delivery Team (PDT) meeting for the Central and Southern Florida (C&SF) Flood Resiliency (Section 216) Study for the Miami River and Nearby Basins on Friday, July 10th, 2026, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Erosion moves mountains: USACE’s relentless reply to the Mount St. Helens eruption

    After more than a century of quiet brooding, Mount St. Helens, known to the Cowlitz as Lawetlat’la, or The Smoking Mountain, began to announce its impending wrath. In the end, the mountain’s eruption would prove to not be singular event, but the beginning of a decades-long geological and engineering challenge.
  • Development of High-Performance Cold Mix Asphalt for Asphalt Patching

    Abstract: Cold mix asphalt (CMA) is commonly used to perform small asphalt patching repairs. It is readily available even when hot mix asphalt (HMA) is not due to distance from a plant or cold weather; it is convenient and can be kept on hand; and it can be used at ambient temperatures. Unfortunately, these advantages are generally offset by marginal performance, especially under heavy loads and at quick return-to-traffic times. For military airfields in particular, both logistical factors and adequate performance are critically important; typical CMAs cannot deliver both, and HMA is not always readily available. Consequently, the objective of this project was to develop a new high-performance CMA that combines convenience and logistical advantages of conventional CMA with the performance expected from HMA. This objective was met using an asphalt-modified polyurethane binder to design cold mix that far outperforms conventional CMA and rivals (exceeds, in some cases) HMA performance, based on both laboratory and full-scale field testing. This two-part material can be field mixed without special mixing equipment; once cured, it is highly elastic, exhibits little temperature sensitivity, and can withstand up to 300 passes of F-15E aircraft traffic with a 3 hr return-to-traffic time (1 in. rutting threshold).