COVID-19  

AEC Café Editor Susan Smith blogs about the potential importance of the digital twin, a digital representation of a real structure that operates with actual data sensed from its real counterpart, as a tool of the "new normal" for civil design and construction.

Arthur Evans Jr., PhD, CEO of the American Psychological Association (APA), urged participants of NIBS' May 19 COVID-19 Virtual Town Hall to "prepare the people as much as you prepare the building" for a post-quarantine return to the workplace. The APA offers a number of free resources highlighting research- and science-based recommendations and strategies for coping with communications, social distance, giving people choices, and encouraging social interaction.