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  • December

    Karen Anderson, deployed to the Afghanistan Engineer District-South from March 2009 to December 2012, was presented the Steel de Fleury Medal Nov. 21 by Afghanistan Engineer District-South Commander Col. Vincent Quarles.

    Executive officer awarded Steel de Fleury Medal for contribution to engineer regiment in Afghanistan

    KANDAHAR Airfield, Afghanistan -- Backing away from a challenge is not in her character, neither is doing something half way. Karen Anderson, the tenacious executive officer, was recognized Nov. 21 with a Steel de Fleury Medal for those character traits and the many behind-the-scenes contributions she made to the Afghanistan Engineer District-South and Army Engineer Regiment during her nearly four-year deployment to Afghanistan.
  • Martha Militano, a resident of the Rockaways in Queens, N.Y., signs a right-of-entry form, Nov. 30, authorizing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to remove the remains of her home, pictured behind her, burned to the ground during Hurricane Sandy. Assisting her is Leslie Williams, a real estate specialist with the Army Corps New York Recovery Field Office.

    Next phase of debris removal in NYC begins for Army Corps

    QUEENS, N.Y. -- On the morning of Hurricane Sandy, Martha Militano, a Rockaways resident, packed an overnight bag and left for Brooklyn to stay the night with her son. The next day, after the storm had passed, she went back to her home on Beach 130th Street, where she had lived for the past 16 years and discovered everything was gone.
  • Missica Tang, graduate student at the University of Miami-Ohio, presents “Meridian Cove,” her architectural design for a proposed marina at Lake Cumberland, Ky., to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Dec. 3, 2012 in Nashville, Tenn.,as part of a real-world class assignment.

    University of Miami-Ohio graduate students submit designs for proposed Lake Cumberland marina

    Nashville, Tenn. (Dec. 3, 2012) – In a real-world class assignment, four University of Miami-Ohio graduate students prepared architectural designs for a new proposed marina at Lake Cumberland, Ky., and submitted them to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District today.
  • This composite image shows a thermal panoramic image (top) shot in a drive-by scan and an image of the automatically detected and segmented energy leaks (bottom).

    Diagnostic system provides fast, accurate building leak detection

    The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is demonstrating a new technology that enables rapid, high-resolution detection of building envelope energy losses.
  • Is a fuel cell the right choice for your installation? The forum can help you decide.

    Forum connects fuel cell experts, installations

    The newly created Fuel Cell End Users Forum supports Directorates of Public Works (DPW) and other decision makers in determining fuel cell applicability at Department of Defense (DOD) installations. The forum was established by a partnership involving the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC); the Department of Energy; the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center; and industry representatives.