Cover Story: Discover how engineers reinforced and protected US beaches in Florida for military exercises using an armoring system to handle the stresses from loaded hovercrafts, and to prevent foundation undermining and scour at two landing areas.

Top Project: Learn about how a rural 56.3-mile stretch of highway US 93 in the Montana Rockies—known as "The People’s Way"—is one of the most progressive roadway endeavors in the nation, uniting numerous groups in collaboration to protect our natural environment and our multicultural heritage.

Focus on BMP: Read about how transportation officials in Illinois and Indiana worked together on the reconstruction of a section of highway important to population centers in both areas, jointly resolving stormwater and treatment solution issues. And, read about stormwater filter installation updates at Sea-Tac Airport in Washington.

Designfiles: Find out about work done at the University of Arizona on lysimetry, the measuring of water percolation, and the potential effects it has on global climate change and observation with the use of a cylinder housing shape to eliminate previous modeling issues.

Line of Site: Learn more about using geogrid for oil barge stabilization due to hurricane damage in Louisiana, about drainage solutions and bridge abutment protection on oil rig roads in the extreme conditions of Alaska’s Arctic Circle, using corrugated metal pipe to create a tunnel and a launching device for a new high-speed roller coaster at a Utah amusement park, building a bridge to connect trails in a remote Kentucky park area, and utilizing retaining walls in conjunction with harsh bedrock to expand a complex in New Jersey.

Newsbriefs: Read about the latest industry news.

Publisher's Message: Professionals are often tasked with overcoming what appears to be insurmountable obstacles in order to build that which has never been done before.