ASCE post-disaster assessment manual

ASCE's new manual outlines policies and procedures to be used when conducting engineering assessments of the damage caused by natural and human-caused disasters. The Post-Disaster Assessment Manual was developed by ASCE's Task Committee on Engineering Review Procedures in response to an independent task force's recommendation that the Society's procedures for such assessments be compiled into a single, readily accessible source. The task force, led by former U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, the former chairman of the House Science Committee, was commissioned in late 2007 to review how the Society participates in engineering studies of national significance.