1990: Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction
The loss from natural disasters is extensive. Earthquakes, windstorms, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, and insect infestations have caused the deaths of nearly three...
A Hazardous Data Explosion
During the 1980s, public concern and government regulations have spawned the huge hazardous waste management industry. But the industry has opened a Pandora's box for site engineers, most...
Building Onto History
In a single design/build/renovation project, an Oklahoma City AE firm acquired new offices, provided new life for an abandoned historic church building and spearheaded redevelopment of...
Bells Under Bells
Chicago's newest office tower is supported on new bells that had to be constructed below existing belled caissons. Existing caisson foundations from a previous structure on...
Specifications for Masonry Structures
A User's Guide to Federal Architect-Engineer Contracts
The
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1988
ASCE Annual Combined Index 1988
The 1988 ASCE Annual Combined Index provides a guide to materials appearing in publications of ASCE published during 1988. This includes papers and technical notes from ASCE technical...
Microcad: Pushing the Limits
Several engineering projects are covered which illustrate the increasingly complex design applications being accomplished with microcomputer based software. A dam, an apartment complex,...
Small Hydro Power in British Columbia
Water Power '87 will be held in the Pacific Northwest. British Columbia is also part of this region and, as such, is also one of the homes of hydro power. To date, we have...
The New Environmental Requirements of ECPA
The Electric Consumers Protection Act of 1986 ('ECPA') has imposed significant new environmental criteria on the hydroelectric licensing process under Part I...
Non-Federal Hydropower Development at Federal Facilities from the Project Developer's Perspective
The City of Santa Clara Electric Department has three small hydroelectric projects in various stages of development at federally-owned facilities. Although all three of the Federal Energy...
Tax Accounting Vs. Book Accounting for Small-Scale Sites: A Case History From Four Small-Scale Sites
The Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) and the tax incentives the federal government granted in the early 1980's, rekindled interest in hydropower unlike anything...
30 More Megawatts at the Don Pedro Project, Calif.
A unique and cost effective concept for installing an additional hydroelectric generating unit to an existing project in a very confined location is presented. The concept also allows...
Hydro Combine Option for Lakhwar Project
A new concept of providing a power house cavity inside the traditional gravity dam section has been explored. Preliminary investigations indicate that taking into account all the relevant...
Pyrites Hydroelectric Project, Canton, New York
This paper describes the Pyrites Hydroelectric Project in Canton, New York, an 8-MW project completed in December 1985. The key to its successful development was a team approach that included...
Grout Supports Brooklyn Tunneling
At the Red Hook project in Brooklyn, microfine cement grout was injected from the surface to support underground tunneling. The hand-dug tunnel was built to connect to sewer pipes. Subsurface...
A Station With a View
The Port Authority TransHudson Corp. (PATH) is renovating and expanding Exchange Place station, the first stop in New Jersey across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan. To be completed...
Subsurface Savings
Less conservatism than usual in designing building foundations is being accepted or demanded by some owners to save money. The article describes four examples of cost-cutting innovations,...
Residential Damage in an Area of Underground Coal Mining
In order to estimate the potential for future subsidence-related residential damage, a statistical analysis of past residential damage in the Boulder-Weld, Colorado, coal field was performed....
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