Brad Wham News
CU Boulder's Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing (CIEST) Lab has received a nearly $1.1 million NSF Major Research Infrastructure grant that will enable researchers to study how soil, rock and infrastructure respond to complex, interacting hazards.
In this 2025 edition of CU Engineering (CUE) magazine, CEAE researchers tackle pressing challenges—such as the increasing frequency and severity of hurricanes, wildfires and floods—head-on, developing innovative solutions to repair aging infrastructure and build a more resilient future.
CU Boulder's CIEST pioneered testing standards for repairing inaccessible, leaking urban pipelines buried beneath buildings and roads.
CEAE's Brad Wham joined a Learning From Earthquakes team assessing lifeline system damage after Turkey's February 2023 earthquake.
Assistant Research Professor Brad P. Wham presented at the 12th annual Water System Seismic Conference, hosted by Japan Water Works Association and co-sponsored by the Water Research Foundation (US) & Chinese
Welcome to the Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing (CIEST) at CU Boulder, an experimental facility offering geotechnical centrifuges, structural dynamics and materials testing and research for business, government, and academic
In 2021, the devastating Marshall Fire showed wildfire can strike Colorado in almost any place or season. Scientists like Assistant Research Professor Brad Wham now hope to glean lessons from it for communities across the West.
In this American Society of Civil Engineers article, Assistant Research Professor Brad Wham talks about the steps water utilities can take to protect their infrastructure from wildfires.
The drone whirs to life on a driveway in the Spanish Hills neighborhood of Boulder County. Its four spinning motors lift it to nearly 200 feet above the ground. Below, the cul-de-sac comes into view, revealing the stone chimneys and blackened