...Bai Xue The quality degradation of historical brick-timber structure houses in Shanghai is affected by various factors, like worsen environment, improper maintenance, and lack of repair. The inspection results of common problems involve a large amount of data. To quantitatively evaluate the quality...

... Engineers that champions 'engineering foresight from hindsight' and its three pillars – the collection of useful data; the curation of the data; education and outreach that makes use of the data. Recent activities are listed that provide examples of these principles in action, and volunteers are invited...