Instrumentation for Detailed Bridge-Scour Measurements
A portable instrumentation system is being developed to obtain channel bathymetry during floods for detailed bridge-scour measurements. Portable scour measuring systems have four components:...
Managing Maintenance from a Business Viewpoint
Today's sophisticated maintenance management systems allow supervisors to plan, schedule, monitor and evaluate the maintenance function at a level and speed our predecessors heretofore...
Jacksonville's ASE Crosses the River
After over three years of operation, the Jacksonville (Florida) Automated Skyway Express (Skyway) downtown people mover system is expanding. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA),...
Going International: Profit or Peril?
Six veterans of the international engineering and construction market discuss the financial risks of international work, including currency risk; expatriate living conditions; difficulties...
Can the U.S. Compete?
Though some American firms, particularly those providing turnkey delivery systems, are very competitive abroad, as a rule U.S. engineering and construction firms face daunting obstacles...
Bridging the Gulf
The Gulf War and saturation of traditional Middle Eastern markets have prompted Western firms to look into the United Arab Emirates, the wealthiest of the small states around the Arabian...
Dispute Avoidance
Dispute avoidance is not something that begins at ground breaking. Dispute avoidance is not a technique that helps you resolve the inevitable problems that arise during construction. Dispute...
A Dual Approach to Low Frequency Energy Definition in a Small Craft Harbor
Low frequency wave energy in a small craft harbor is examined through comparison between a numerical model and a 3-dimensional physical model. A hybrid element steady state linear monochromatic...
Wave Barriers: An Environmentally Benign Alternative
This paper describes the history and development of the environmental wave barrier and the current planning and design being undertaken for a major expansion of the small boat harbor at...
Towards a Spacefaring Civilization
Three questions are addressed: (1) Is the U.S. a spacefaring nation? (2) Are we a spacefaring civilization? What are the benefits of being one? If we are not, how do we become one? (3)...
Using a Lunar Base Scenario Context in Business Education
A practical matter of realizing a lunar colony requires businesses to effectively manage the cost and profitability of space-related products and services. To achieve this objective, the...
Capturing Capital
Over the past few years, the environmental engineering and consulting business has become capital intensive. Between 1991 and 1993, firms' incremental capital needs will total...
Travel Markets: An Approach to TCM Effectiveness Evaluation
This discussion paper describes a new approach to TCM evaluation using a travel market concept to classify trip types based on expected elasticities to various TCMs. Conventional trip...
United States Metrication and the EC 92
Major Congressional legislation adopted in 1988 was related to USA trade and competitiveness problems of the Nation. The legislation contained a section on metrication that required all...
Application of Traffic Engineering Concepts to Pleasure Boat Traffic
The Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors initiated a study to investigate the feasibility of adding slips along the main channel in Marina del Rey in response to the surplus...
Draft Chapter 1?Planning and Design Guidelines for Small Craft Harbors?Planning and Environmental Considerations
The purpose of this paper is to present, in draft form, the first chapter of a technical report on the planning and design of small craft harbors being prepared by a special task force...
Draft Chapter 2?Planning and Design Guidelines for Small Craft Harbors?Entrance Design and Breakwaters
The paper will present a very preliminary draft of the second chapter of an ASCE manual that is currently being developed. The new manual is entitled Planning and Design Guidelines for...
Draft Chapter 3?Planning and Design Guidelines for Small Craft Harbors?Inner Harbor Structures
The purpose of this paper is to present, in draft form, the third chapter of a technical report on the planning and design of small craft harbors being prepared by a special task force...
Planning and Design Guidelines for Small Craft Harbors?Economic factors and Finance
The purpose of this paper is to present, in draft form, the fourth chapter of a technical report on the planning and design of small craft harbors being prepared by a special task force...
Managing for Profit
Clients hire firms today for their ability to manage, not just design and draw. Project managers must address owner requirements for cost, quality and schedule. The three are inseparable....
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