And our children need to learn it now, more than ever — Our status quo seems to be in a rather interesting state of paradox. While today’s world is becoming more and more connected, with growing commerce and advancements in technology, the need to educate students on how to become active global citizens has become greater now than ever before. As per…

In January, Wuhan, China, manifested itself to the world as the first coronavirus hot spot. With cases and death toll climbing quickly, drastic circumstances called for drastic measures. Therefore, a makeshift medical facility was pledged in Wuhan to tackle the outbreak. The project broke ground on 23rd January 2020. With…

An Engineer’s Ode to the ‘Letter of Love’ — Believe it or not, but the letter that gives us some of the most existential words in the world, like Love and Life, deserves more praise than one would think. The letter that comprises merely two lines — one that goes from top to bottom and the other that continues…

The Rion-Antirion bridge is one of the world’s longest multi-span cable-stayed bridges and the longest of the fully suspended type. Crossing some of the most active earthquake fault lines in Europe, and with nothing solid at the bottom of the sea to build it on, the bridge seemed an impossible…

According to reports, ‘no one inside felt it move’ — In 1929, the Central Union Telephone Company Building was purchased by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company and was initially planned to be demolished and replaced by a much larger headquarters on the site. However, since the building provided essential services to the city, demolishing the building did not seem viable…

Are you familiar with the woman who lives on the moon? I am pretty sure many of you may have never even heard of her up until now. I was introduced to her when I was seven. What I found particularly enamoring about this forlorn character is the ambiguity and…

…and I do not know how to deal with it — I will get right to the point here. Let me first state it out in the open: Saad is my first name, Ali my middle, and Faizi my last. So, you add all of them up, and you get a full Saad Ali Faizi. You see, I prefer being referred…

With the growing and changing needs of today, as well as the limited design life of every building, demolition is a necessary undertaking, which requires due diligence and careful planning. While many of us think of dramatic implosions and wrecking balls, when we hear the word demolition, those methods are…

While we still have not reached the point where we can control the weather (and thank goodness for that!), it does seem as if the winds are changing. The technology of cloud seeding has enabled Mother Nature’s force of precipitation (i.e. rainfall, hail, snowfall, etc.) to be artificially induced. Before…