How Owners Can Identify and Employ Safe Contractors
Owner Responsible for Safety at Site
Negotiating Equity for Management of DOE Wastes
Cultivating Stakeholder Interaction in Emergency Management
Earning Empowerment From Stakeholders
Technical and Institutional Features of High-Level Radioactive Waste Management: Searching for Common Ground
Toward Integrated Design of Waste Management Technologies
A Parameter Network and Model Pyramid for Managing Technical Information Flow
Owners Buy Use Along With Property
Partnering for Success
Partnering as a method of doing business is spreading throughout the construction industry. With everyone fed up with the litigious nature of the industry, partnering represents an opportunity...
Survival Skills
Thinking of what will become of a firm once an owner leaves is an important topic what many owners of firms choose to ignore. As a result, many firms fail soon after ownership is transferred....
Light at the End of the Chunnel
While the construction of the Channel tunnel was an engineering triumph, the project also had its share of cost overruns, inadequately prepared contract documents, and disputes over safety...
For Successful Design-Build, Onus is on the Owner
Architect is Liable to Owner Only
Owner and Contractor Not Duty-Bound
Spotting Specs Offenders
About 80% of all specification related litigation is brought about by three different personality types all too common to construction projects. The problem is specifications abuse, when...
Relationships with Architects and Owners
There are many issues which affect the relationships between structural engineers and on the other, the owner clients. This paper discusses some of those issues from the point of view...
The Douglas Dam Emergency Response and Rehabilitation
Through the timely response of the Owner, the potential failure of Douglas Dam was averted, and lives and property downstream were protected. The economic losses created by loss of irrigation...
What Do You Mean by That?
The engineering and construction profession, like any other, has its own buzzwords and jargon. But as terms become ingrained in the profession's lexicon, they take on different...
Computer-Aided Decision Model for Selecting a Contractual System
An owner of a construction project often faces the problem of selecting a contractual arrangement. The process of selecting a contractual system depends on the owner's preferred risk sharing...
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