What civil engineers are reading this week

• Live updates: Hurricane Erin pounds North Carolina coast, starts to move away

  The massive Category 2 storm is expected to keep delivering dangerous coastal conditions to the East Coast throughout the week. Which states are on alert?

• Transparent wood? It could curb electronics waste; how are sticky rice and eggs involved?

  This approach to transparent wood renders it biodegradable, possibly providing an environmentally friendly alternative to the plastics used in innumerable products. What are this researcher’s next steps?

• ASCE’s pipeline standards, manuals now available on flexible AMPLIFY platform

  Key pipelines engineering standards and manuals of practice just added to ASCE AMPLIFY offer side-by-side display of provisions and commentary, revisions and markups from previous editions.

• New class of materials – intercrystals – may be in your future tech

  Rutgers University scientists have identified a new material dubbed intercrystals, which display unusual electronic behaviors that may help shape future technologies.

• Ambitious project to expand Florida water reclamation facility will set new standard

  The upgrade is expected to leave Sarasota County’s Bee Ridge Water Reclamation Facility with Florida’s largest membrane bioreactor. How did a community create momentum behind the effort?

• ‘Brain-eating amoeba’ with 97% fatality rate found in Australian tap water

  A public health notice was issued in the state of Queensland after Naegleria fowleri, one of Earth’s most dangerous microorganisms, was found in drinking water supplies of Charleville and Augathella.