Environment Exploitation by Prehistorical Population of Rio De Janeiro
The specific purpose of this project was to establish the cultural contexts in the area being studied as well as to define the mechanisms of environmental manipulation that were employed...
Screaming Structures
As any designer of roller coasters will tell you, civil engineering principles put the thrills and screams into roller coasters. There are two basic differences between roller coaster...
Contractability?Recent Concepts in Contracting
Owners are customizing project delivery systems by uniquely aligning service agreements and construction contracts. Seeking more productive ways to construct facilities, owners currently...
Highway Project Constructability
Results from on-going research into highway project constructibility are discussed. Research objectives and methods are outlined. Prime constructibility objectives are presented along...
Subcontractors' Concerns Regarding Productivity
This study suggests that smaller contractors, many of whom operate as sub-contractors, are less interested than larger firms in taking an active part in identifying, funding, and conducting...
A Model for Construction Quality and Productivity
A set of necessary and sufficient conditions for construction quality is developed. Numerical simulations are then performed to evaluate the effectiveness of various quality improvement...
The Use of SIPS as a Productivity Improvement Tool
SIPS, an acronym for short interval production schedule, applies many of the earlier scheduling techniques to individual operations that are key or pacesetter operations on a project....
Construction's Critical Condition
The United States construction industry is experiencing a decline due mainly to the drop in productivity. Even though tools have improved and labor costs have remained in relative parity,...
A Clean Up in Slow Motion
Eight years have passed since contamination was first discovered at the Valley Wood Preserving plant in Turlock, Calif. Though severe chromium contamination continues to travel toward...
Establishing Native Plant Communities on a Coastal Landfill, Berkeley, California
Three native coastal plant communities were successfully established in a park created on a landfill site on San Francisco Bay: coastal strand, coastal scrub, and prairie grassland. The...
Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity (CARICOMP): A Regional Laboratory Network
The CARICOMP (Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity) project began with a workshop in 1982. Marine scientists from 12 Caribbean nations gathered to consider the factors controlling the...
Homer Spit Storm Damage Reduction
Homer Spit is a natural spit formed by littoral processes at the confluence of Kachemak Bay and Cook Inlet in Southcentral Alaska, some 192 km southwest of Anchorage. The immediate erosion...
Timber Bulkheads
Timber bulkhead design and construction methods are presented in this publication for consideration by the engineering profession. Included are papers on an analytical method for the design...
Structural Engineering and Microcomputers
This publication contains five papers on the use of microcomputers by structural engineers. The first paper discusses the design of multi-story rigid steel frames. The design process employed...
Development and Use of Stress Laminated Timber Deck Bridges
This presentation provides a brief overview of the concepts, development, research needs, economics and recent use of stress laminated timber bridge decks. Repeated articles on the serious...
Micro=Lam? LVL: A New Alternative for Timber Bridges
Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) provides a unique opportunity to obtain large structural members from ever-smaller trees. It provides the added benefit of high treatability. This paper explains...
Artist in Wood Structures
Julius Natterer is chairman on the Institute for Wood Structures at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, and designer of more unusual or unique wood structures...
Strategic Human Resources Management
This paper discusses progressive human resources management strategies for improving the productivity and service performance of urban transportation organizations. The paper attributes...
Mini Hydro at the Hackett Mills Project
The project includes rehabilitation of a timber crib dam and the first use of a Right Angle Drive turbine in the United States to generate power from the 16 feet of head available at the...
Conversion Experience at the Chief Joseph Dam Project
In August, 1983, Woodward Governor Company was awarded U. S. Army Corps of Engineers contract DACW67-83-C-0076 to convert ten existing Allis-Chalmers and six existing Woodward Governor...
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