Now Showing in San Diego
This article is a roundup of three major infrastructure projects in the San Diego area. Each of these projects will be features in the technical tours portion of the ASCE conference in...

Restoring a Stream Corridor
The Stream Restoration Project is an environmental remediation project in a residential area in the Northeast United States. The soil in the flood plain of the stream was contaminated...

Masonry Sewer Rehab
The city of St. Louis is rehabilitating some of the oldest masonry sewers in the country. The ongoing project includes all major types of sewer rehabilitation, including shotcrete, cast-in-place-pipe,...

Wider Ride to the Rainbow
Engineers on the project to widen the entrance to the Rainbow Bridge between New York and Ontario let the aesthetics of the Niagara Falls setting dictate their design decisions. The challenge...

Here Comes the Sun
This article is an overview of recent developments in alternative and renewable energy technologies. The entire field is reviewed and four energy sources likely to impact short-term markets...

Rapid Remediation
The Florida Department of Transportation encountered petroleum contamination in the right-of-way of a large highway construction project in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. In order to avoid costly...

Project Management: One Step Beyond
Good project managers are made, not born. But those with a special dedication to a project look beyond the most basic measures of success toward building constructive relationships within...

Removing Metals From Soil
Metals-contaminated soils have been among the most intractable hazardous-waste remediation problems. Conventional mitigation methods of capping, stabilization and landfilling all have...

Case Histories of the Design, Construction, and Maintenance of Rubble Mound Structures
This proceedings, Case Histories of the Design, Construction and Maintenance of Rubble Mound Structures, contains papers presented at a seminar...

Construction Congress
This proceedings, Construction Congress, consists of papers presented at the 1995 Conference held in San Diego, California from October 22-26,...

Management of Water Resources in North America III
Anticipating the 21st Century
This proceedings, Management of Water Resources in North America III, contains fourteen of the papers presented and discussed at the Third...

Transportation Congress, Volumes 1 and 2
Civil Engineers?Key to the World's Infrastructure
This proceedings, Transportation Congress: Civil Engineers?Key to the World's Infrastructure, contains papers presented at the...

Berlin's Big Dig
As the first of many major development projects for the new Berlin, the DM 1.5 billion FriedrichstadtPassengen project is the largest private construction investment in Berlin's...

Flood Control Doesn't Have to be Ugly
The recently completed flood control project in Rochester, Minn. shows how innovative engineering combined with aesthetically-sensitive design can integrate flood protection into an urban...

Ready for Anything
The author describes the temporary bridge developed by Caltrans for use in emergency situations where stretches of highway bridge are damaged. The bridge is made of salvaged railroad flatcars...

A Second Life for Dredged Material
To ensure safe, navigable waters, rivers and waterways must be dredged. Dredging in the U.S. requires long-term alternatives for placement of more than 300 million cu yds of dredged material...

Rest in Peace
Engineers working on a subway connection project in the nation's capital successfully employed chemical grouting techniques--some never tried before--to protect a historically...

Rising from the River
The Corps of Engineers completed construction of a 20 Million cu yd dredged material containment facility in the Delaware River in 1990. The authors examine the performance of the geotextile...

A Texas-Sized SSO Solution
Houston is under the gun to control chronic overflows in its sanitary-sewer-collection system--a wet-weather problem that has plagued the city for years. For a problem this massive, the...

Seismic Isolation in Bridges
In the U.S., the use of seismic isolation in new bridge construction and retrofit projects has been growing as awareness of seismic risk has spread across the country since the 1971 San...

 

 

 

 

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