The Port of Long Beach, California, is the second busiest port in the United States. It handles more than nine-million 20-foot container units each year with cargo valued at $200 billion. Yet existing channel dimensions and tidal delays pose limitations and inefficiencies for current and future deep draft vessel traffic. To navigate the port complex, these larger vessels must carry a lighter load from their point of origin, which ultimately increases the nation’s transportation costs by requiring more ships to move cargo into and out of the complex.
In 2016, Port of Long Beach officials began to address these constraints and sought federal assistance from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District to conduct a deep draft...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has named Dr. Ivan Beckman director of the Engineer and Research Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL).
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) Operational Energy (OE) team is celebrating the construction and installation of the GridStar® Flow system, a redox flow battery solution designed for long-duration, large-capacity energy storage applications. The flow system is installed at Fort Carson, Colorado, and ERDC has led the technical evaluation and project management since 2022.
Located in the wild expanses of southeastern Alaska, the Tongass National Forest (TNF) is one of the largest old-growth temperate rainforests in the world. It stretches across more than 20,000 islands and is renowned for its natural beauty and rich biodiversity. The forest also features thousands of unexplored caves, that is, until today
In a partnership with Accelera™ by Cummins, a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title has been set for the longest distance traveled by a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) heavy-duty truck without refueling. This prototype truck, designed for emergency response missions, is part of a collaborative project between the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell...
With a goal of improving how historic structures are managed and advancing the role of technology for historic preservation, a collaborative team of experts completed a field experiment at the Au Sable Lighthouse in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The team, which included researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL), University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)...
