New Address for the 21st Century
The purchase of the office building in Reston, Virginia, that will be the society's new headquarters is described. The decision to buy property was made in April 1993, candidate...
Engineering Ethics
Recent revelations about the 1978 emergency retrofit of the Citicorp Center in New York City sparked an assessment of ethical dilemmas by the structural engineering community. In May 1995,...
Are There Benefits to Continuing Professional Development?
This paper was selected as the Mead student paper winner for 1996. The author defended the position that continuing professional development should be a priority for all engineers and...
Civil Engineers Influencing Public Policy
The papers in this proceedings were presented at the ASCE Annual Convention held in Washington, DC, November 10-14, 1996. They were prepared in celebration of the 25th anniversary, the...
Does ASCE Have a Responsibility to Mandate Continuing Education?
This paper won the Mead award for a paper by a younger member of ASCE. He notes that there is an exponential explosion of technology and knowledge and that more demands and higher expectations...
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1995
ASCE Annual Combined Index 1995
The 1995 ASCE Annual Combined Index provides a guide to materials appearing in publications of ASCE published during 1995. This includes papers and technical notes from ASCE technical...
Indirect Marketing
The various efforts which enable you to present yourself or your firm to a large audience, either in person or by mail, are termed indirect marketing/' The tools of this type...
The Psychology of Business Development
A successful marketing-oriented firm that is service-minded will have its entire staff involved in selling at different levels. This includes how phones are answered as well as how proposals...
Budgets
Marketing budgets vary greatly from company to company. They will be much larger, when you calculate labor as a percentage of total marketing costs, for smaller firms than larger ones....
The Urge to Merge
A report issued in 1994 by the Professional Services Management Association offers a glimpse into the world of mergers and acquisitions in the architecture/engineering industry, through...
The Great Texas Prison Caper
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, under court order to relieve prison overcrowding, worked with a team of six construction management firms and a building fabrication/erection...
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1994
Guidelines for Cloud Seeding to Augment Precipitation
This manual of professional practice,
PR Prescription
Image and reputation are powerful tools for professional services firms competing in today's marketplace. The ability to win projects, enter new markets and attract key employees...
Surviving a Layoff
A layoff can happen to anyone in an organization, from an entry level draftsperson or technician up to the President. In these days of budget cutting and downsizing, any day could be your...
Artificial Recharge of Ground Water II
The Second International Symposium on Artificial Recharge of Ground Water was held in Orlando, Florida from July 17-22, 1995 and sponsored by the ASCE Special Standards Division, the ASCE...
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...
ASCE Salary Survey 1995
The 23rd biennial ASCE salary survey of the civil engineering profession conducted by the ASCE Committee on Employment Conditions during the first quarter of 1995 is presented. It consists...
Landfill Closures
Environmental Protection and Land Recovery
This proceedings,
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