Management of Water Resources in North America III
Anticipating the 21st Century
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Transportation Congress, Volumes 1 and 2
Civil Engineers?Key to the World's Infrastructure
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State of the Art
The structural engineering of San Francisco's new Museum of Modern Art offered many challenges to the engineer. The complexity of the building is both visually exciting and...
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...
Freeway through a Superfund Site
The Red Mountain Freeway is the centerpiece of a 171 km $2.6 billion system of freeways and expressways under construction in Maricopa County, Ariz. For 3 km in Tempe, the freeway passes...
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 Primer on Micropiles
A major study of micropile technology has recently been funded by the Federal Highway Authority and completed by the authors. The subject is defined as a drilled and grouted, cast-in-place,...
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...
Putting Waste to Work (an Engineer's Obligation to the Environment)
With a limited supply of natural resources and overwhelming amounts of waste material overburdening the country's landfills, engineers are faced with tremendous challenges...
Continuous Excellence
Building Effective Organizations
This handbook for managers and leaders pulls together, in one resource, all that is important to know about effectively utilizing and managing change in service organizations. For leaders...
Odor Control in Wastewater Treatment Plants
This manual should be of primary assistance to wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) operators and management, engineers, wastewater agency management personnel, laboratory staff, and collection...
The Foundation for a New Approach to Implement Building Innovation
Prepared by the Partnership for Building Innovation project, which is sponsored by CERF; National Institute of Standards and Technology; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development;...
International Registry of Construction Industry Technical Assessment Organizations
Assessment organization profiles include: ABSAC, ASA, BBA. BIA, BTL, CBRI, CCMC, CSIRO-DBCE, CSTB, DIBt, EMI, EOTA, HITEC, ICBO ES, ICITE, IETcc, INTI, IPT, ITB, ITEC, LNEC, NBRI, NES,...
Journal of Architectural Engineering
The Journal of Architectural Engineering provides a multidisciplinary forum for dissemination of research-based engineering and technical information related to all aspects of building engineering design...
Journal of Infrastructure Systems
The ?Journal of Infrastructure Systems? publishes cross-disciplinary papers about managing, sustaining, enhancing, and transforming civil infrastructure systems. Papers are expected to contribute new knowledge...
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