Structural Details: Is Anything Missing?
While actual failure of a structure is uncommon, many projects have less publicized, detailing-related difficulties involving rework, changes, clarifications, and increased costs. If the...
Form Follows Geometry
The $107 million NCNB Plaza in Tamps, Fla. consists of a 32 floor, 500,000 sq ft, 455 ft tall office tower; a 40,000 sq ft, 78 ft tall banking hall, and a 280,000 sq ft parking garage...
Designing in Circles
Round buildings are a popular�but sometimes expensively perceived�design choice. With careful engineering and planning, they can offer a creative, cost-competitive option. They add another...
Influence of International Students on the U.S. Educational System and Professional Practice
If the U.S. will continue to be a leader in the technological world of the 21st century, it must create a new generation of American engineers with an understanding of the world, its people...
Industry Faces the Parking Problem
Parking structures are deteriorating; no land is available for new facilities; and employees have no other options for parking. The situation is a serious one, verging on disaster for...
Do the Right Thing
Engineers and scientists at the Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) are developing software to support water resource and environmental decision...
The Invisible Engineer
For all their contributions to society, engineers have worked largely behind the scenes, seldom remembered in the dedication ceremonies of bridges and tunnels and skyscrapers. Several...
The Benefits of Benefits
The article describes the effects of high turnover on a firm's performance and the potential for helping control it through the benefits offered employees. Historically, benefits...
Taming Structural Vibrations
Vibration is a common problem in buildings that contain large spaces and long spans, especially gymnasiums and dance studios. Research shows that people respond more adversely to continuous...
Leveling the Playing Field
As professional sports grow, so does the market for elaborate multi-use sports arenas. The new Target Center in Minneapolis features a unique movable floor, 68 luxury suites and a state-of-the-art...
Anchoring a Dam
To comply with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requirements with regard to stability under a postulated Probable Maximum Flood, an extensive foundation investigation and stability...
The ABCs of SRFs
With the outlook for future federal funding bleak, state and local governments will have to reply on their own resources to fund the plant expansions and upgrades needed to meet EPAs wastewater...
Replacing an Urban Foundation
Baltimore's new subway extension will pass close to a 6-story reinforced concrete building near the Inner Harbor. Its timber piling foundation was threatened by the dewatering...
U.S. Tackles Leaking Tanks
Regulations to deal with leaking underground storage tanks have been in force since 1984 and deadlines for compliance began in 1989 for tanks installed before 1969. The Environmental Protection...
Don't Litigate. Negotiate!
Because of the nature of the construction business, contract disputes are often the rule rather than the exception. Rather than spending millions of dollars and many years on litigation,...
Rochester Stops the Deluge
After a slew of stopgap waste-treatment plants failed to solve Rochester's chronic storm water and sewage overflow problem, city officials changed direction in the late 1960s....
Aussie Steel
The 50-story Chifley Square Building being built in Sydney will be the tallest Australian steel building. Scheduled for completion in June 1992 at a cost of $310 million, it will house...
Retaining Forest Roads
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, manages a vast system of roads which provide access to America's national forests. More than 250,000 miles of roads exist...
Environmental Engineering
This proceedings was presented at the Environmental Engineering 1990 Specialty Conference sponsored by the Environmental Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers...
Recent Lifeline Seismic Risk Studies
This monograph is a collection of four papers presented at the 1990 Annual Civil Engineering Convention and Exposition in San Francisco, California. The papers summarize seismic loss and...
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