Use of the Metric System in Water Resources
ASCE has advocated use of the metric system since 1876, and the Board of Direction's policy statement specifically urges use of SI in all civil engineering activities. In...
A Decision Making Approach for Stormwater Management Measures?A Case Example in the City of Waukesha, Wisconsin
An urban nonpoint source pollution predictive model (Source Load and Management Model?SLAMM; Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 1990), and a decision matrix developed specifically...
Building Code Requirements for Masonry Structures (ACI 530-95/ ASCE 5-95/TMS 402-95); Specification for Masonry Structures (ACI 530.1-95/ ASCE 6-95/TMS 602-95); Commentary on Building Code Requirements for Masonry Structures (ACI 530-95/ ASCE 5-95/TMS 402-95); Commentary on Specification for Masonry Structures (ACI 530.1-95/ ASCE 6-95/TMS 602-95)
Copublished with American Concrete Institute (ACI) and The Masonry Society (TMS)
Strategies for Remediation Managers
Since the early 1980s the environmental business has focused on avoiding loss. Today the industry is experiencing a paradigm shift toward creating value, and this is impacting the way...
Storm-Water Treatment Goes Underground
The field of storm-water management continues to evolve as practitioners gain more experience and knowledge from the successes and failures of the past. While we once treated every site...
Rx for Risk Communication
When American adults are asked what they fear most, a majority rank public speaking ahead of death, divorce and unemployment. This news may not surprise many environmental project managers,...
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...
Stormwater NPDES Related Monitoring Needs
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1994
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