Mark your calendars, set your reminders, get ready to build.
ASCE2027: The Infrastructure and Engineering Experience is coming to Philadelphia, Feb. 28 through March 5, 2027.
ASCE2027 brings together for the first time each of the Society’s institute flagship conferences. All the brightest minds in infrastructure under one roof.
“This is unlike any ASCE experience we’ve seen and a very concrete way to demonstrate the value of 'one ASCE' to our members and the profession,” said ASCE President Feniosky A. Peña-Mora, Sc.D., P.E., NAS, CCM, F.CIOB, NAC, Dist.M.ASCE.
“This is ASCE unleashing the full potential of civil engineers to work and grow across disciplines, across industries to build future-ready infrastructure.
As civil engineers, we are looked to as leaders in the infrastructure space, and we know our leadership ability only grows stronger when we take a systems-thinking approach and look to integrate the big picture to our expert work.”
If collaboration was a useful approach in civil engineering a decade ago, it’s an absolute must as the industry moves toward the 2030s. The ASCE2027 experience will feature all the deep technical content members have come to expect from their specialty conferences but puts it within the context of the entire infrastructure team.
“As projects get bigger and more complex, and as each discipline gets more depth and more innovation, we need to work closer across disciplines and professions to achieve more efficient, resilient, and sustainable results for our projects,” said Joanna Zhang, P.E., S.E., PMP, LEED AP, M.ASCE, 2025 president of the ASCE Architecture Engineering Institute.
ASCE2027 – which also coincides with the Society’s 175th anniversary – has been in the works for more than a year with representatives from each institute and many other Society groups working together to maximize the opportunity. The vision is an experience that reflects the way civil engineering work gets done in the modern age.
Lily S. Baldwin, P.E., M.ASCE, president-elect for ASCE’s Environmental and Water Resources Institute, recalled a recent project she worked on replacing a site’s in-creek water crossing and water line. The work potentially threatened steelhead and resident trout migration and the home to an endangered frog species.
The solutions were not going to be found in an old-fashioned civil engineering silo.
“Cross-discipline collaboration was a game-changer for us,” Baldwin said. “Just within the civil discipline, we had structural, geotechnical, and environmental engineers. But we also needed help from biologists, hydrologists, and geomorphologists.”
Together, they found a way to secure the site’s water, allow the fish to migrate, and save the frogs. All of which points toward the tremendous potential afforded by the ASCE2027 experience.
“I can't wait,” Baldwin said. “My work is getting so much more complex with each passing year. So I can’t wait to make those meaningful connections and continue to grow my network.”
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- ASCE2027 will be Feb. 28 through March 5, 2027, in Philadelphia.
- ASCE2028 will be March 12-17, 2028, in Seattle.
- ASCE2029 will be May 6-11, 2029, in Kansas City, Missouri.
