Masonry Rehabilitation: Practice and Research
The rehabilitation of masonry buildings is a major construction activity in the United States. The available techniques and evaluation methodologies are limited to visual investigation...
Limited Field Inspection vs. Public Safety
The traditional role of the design engineer in providing field inspection services has been an important component of public safety in the construction industry. The various aspects of...
Professional Inspection of Construction
The Nation's deteriorating infrastructure is finally receiving the attention it deserves. As a result of this attention, a 5? per gallon gasoline tax has been passed. This...
Project Documentation and Management Using Jobsite Microcomputers
The use of onsite microcomputers to handle the project documentation tasks of labor, equipment, and material logs, correspondence, daily diaries and inspection reports will enable project...
Inspecting Buildings During Construction: Are We Doing a Good Enough Job?
Everyone agrees that inspecting buildings during their construction is important�and that it could be done a lot better than in the past. Suggestions for improving inspection practice...
Computers: The Ins and Outs of the Purchasing Contract
When purchasing computers and computer graphic systems there are 13 areas in the purchasing contract that should be investigated. These include the agreement, specification, dates, inspection,...
Reducing Risk and Liability through Better Specifications and Inspection
Papers presented at the Conference on Reducing Risk and Liability through Better Specifications and Inspection, and transcripts of the ensuing discussions are included in these proceedings....
Inspecting Town Bridges in Connecticut
A federally financed inventory and inspection program for town bridges was carried out in Connecticut. This article describes how the authors' firm inspected 343 bridges of...
Inspecting Dam Construction
Through and competent inspection during construction is crucial to assure dam safty. Inspection for dam construction is more important than for other types of structures because plans...
Transportation Planners Join Battle for Cleaner Air
Under the terms of the '77 Clean Air Act Amendments, transportation planners must find ways to reduce air pollution from mobile sources. Actions must begin in 1980. The article,...
Pipelines in Adverse Environments
A State of the Art
The Conference us designed to establish communications between designers and users. The subjects covered are: Pipelines in the Ocean - design, construction and inspection; Routing, design...
$70 Million for Dam Inspection
In 1972, Congress passed the National Dam Inspection Act, requiring the U.S. Corps of Engineers to inspect and inventory all dams in the United States; but few dams were inspected. Then...
EPA's New Construction Operations Review Program
Experienced construction engineers from EPA's Headquarters are now visiting numerous sewage treatment construction sites to review the quality of work being done. Behind the...
The Evaluation of Dam Safety
Proceedings of the Engineering Foundation Conference on the Evaluation of Dam Safety, held in the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, November 28 December 3, 1976....
Corps Guidelines for Dam Safety Inspection Need Revamping
A protest (1) that Proposed Guidelines for Safety Inspection of Dams, Federal Register, August 1974, pp. 31334-31346, ignores well-publicized conclusions of a preexisting ASCE task committee...
The National Dam Inspection Program
The January 1975 issue of CIVIL ENGINEERING carried an article by Bob Buehler that was critical of the National Dam Program and suggested that much public money would be misspent in execution...
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