Calendar: Bridges 2000 Calendar
Featured bridges are: Mill Creek Park Suspension Bridge (OH); Coos Bay (McCullough Memorial) Bridge (OR); Gothic Arch (NY); Bidwell Bar Suspension Bridge (CA); Plaza de Espana (Spain);...
Floodplain Management
On July 28th, 1997, the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, experienced devastating floods on Spring Creek that resulted in property damage and loss of life. As part of the local floodplain...
Light Rail as Planned
The Mission Valley West project, an extension of the San Diego Trolley, runs 6.1 miles between Qualcomm Stadium and the Old Town District. Conceived by the Metropolitan Transit Development...
Sim City of Angels
Using advanced computing techniques, UCLA researchers are developing a virtual model of the entire 4,000 sp mi Los Angeles basin. Accurate to the level of graffiti on the walls and store...
Soil Bioengineering Takes Root
Soil bioengineering is an often misunderstood and maligned technology that has not always been given a fair trial. Moving away from reliance on hard structural solutions, engineers may...
Burrowing Beneath Bangkok
The $2.9 billion Bangkok subway project faces several daunting obstacles�soft soils, a high water table and Thailand's current economic upheaval. The Blue Line subway system...
Getting the GISt of Costs
Over the past five years, geographic information systems (GIS) have become powerful graphical database tools, useful to everyone from city planners to departments of transportation, from...
Water Resources and the Urban Environment
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Water Resources and the Urban Environment-98
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Step by Step
A small townhouse community in suburban Maryland experienced repeated flooding from a nearby stream, which had eroded as the community grew from rural to suburban. By involving the affected...
Quarry Conversion
All over the country, old landfills are filling rapidly, and potential new sites�and public support for them�are in short supply. Cities are faced with increasing solid waste disposal...
This Time With Feeling
Adaptive reuse has been a buzzword for sometime, but recently, changes in government and military operations and renewed interest in the revitalization of urban centers have pushed the...
Pipeline Route Selection for Rural and Cross-Country Pipelines
Prepared by the Task Committee to Rewrite Manual of Practice 46 of Committee on Pipeline Installation and Location of the Pipeline Division of ASCE ...
Sell-Off
In 1996, the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, offered its Fairbanks Municipal Utilities System for sale to private bidders. Four different entities assumed ownership of the water and wastewater,...
Cementing the Future
One of the most devastating effects of the Loma Prieta Earthquake that rocked northern California on Oct. 17, 1989 was the collapse of the elevated Cypress Freeway (Interstate 880) in...
Calendar: Bridges 1999 Calendar
Featured bridges are: Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge (NH); John A. Roebling Bridge (KY); Bollman Truss Bridge (MD); Eads Bridge (MO); Brooklyn Bridge (NY); Manhattan Bridge (NY); High...
Saving a Sinking City
A construction team repairing a bridge or expanding a hospital usually must work around the daily activities of the affected group of people. But for a construction project in Co-op City,...
BART on a Roll
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) opened its Pittsburg/Bay Point Station ahead of schedule, and now the district sets to work on an ambitious 14-mi rail system extension...
LAX Now Towers in Style (Available only in Structural Engineering Special Issue)
Three years and three major building code agencies later, the $21 million Los Angeles Airport control tower stands as a testament to art, architecture and innovative engineering. Completed...
ETA:1999
To convert the Bergstrom Air Force Base into the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, planners needed to overcome various technical, social, political and environmental issues. To coordinate...
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