Contracting for Quality Facilities
Currently, Department of Defense (DoD) contracting for facilities is done almost exclusively with sealed-bid solicitations, low-bid awards, and firm-fixed-price (FFP) contracts. Quality...
Integrating Voice Recognition Systems with the Collection of Project Control Data
The Construction Industry in the 1990's will be dominated by emphasis on Productivity, Competitiveness and Innovation. Success or failure in these areas lies in one word, Technology, and...
The Corps Resident Engineer
The term 'Resident Engineer' in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is given to the individual in charge of a field office administering construction contracts....
Variables Impacting Design Effectiveness Key to Project Quality
This paper reports on two-year research at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, which was supported by the Construction Research Institute (CII). Over forty (40) input variables to design...
Evaluation of Design Effectiveness
Design is basically a subjective process, limited by rules of mechanics and physics but oriented toward optimizing certain features determined by a client and reflected in the stated criteria...
Does Ethical Engineering Practice Affect Creativity?
Creativity is not reserved for artists, scientists and dreamers! Engineers put creativity into practice every day. Creativity combined with our engineering and management skills accomplishes...
Channel Tunnel, Texas Style
Two water supply pipelines under the Houston Ship Channel and Greens Bayou are an example of deep tunneling in soft ground. The navigable waters and the water-bearing silty soils in the...
Sons of Martha
Civil Engineering Readings in Modern Literature
A User's Guide to Federal Architect-Engineer Contracts
The
Expert Systems for Civil Engineers
Education
While the technology of expert systems can provide engineers with another approach to the development of computable models for civil engineering problems, it is not clear what a course...
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...
Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
The Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering covers the development, processing, evaluation, applications, and performance of construction materials in civil engineering....
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,...
Future Hydropower Development
Hydropower development and management in an era of uncertainty is the theme of this Waterpower '87 conference and reflects the current mood of the U. S. hydropower development...
Expansion of Three Plants on the Saranac River
The capacity of three cascading hydro power plants, owned and operated by New York State Electric and Gas Corporation on the Saranac River near Plattsburgh, was expanded by a total of...
Selection of Jim Falls Turbine Generators
The selection of the unit configuration for the Northern States Power Company's Jim Falls Hydro Redevelopment Project was based on an extensive evaluation of various turbine...
Case Study on the Development of a Hydro License Compliance Monitoring System
As the holder of 29 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) licenses, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PGandE) has an obvious need to monitor and document compliance with the numerous...
Appropriate Design and Construction of Conduits for Small and Mini Hydropower
The success of smaller hydro schemes often lies in identifying feasible and economic waterway systems to develop relatively high heads between low intake weir and powerstation. This paper...
Rock Engineering at Cat Arm Hydroelectric Development
Cat Arm Hydroelectric Development in Newfoundland, Canada, develops 129 MW from 384 m of head. The project was constructed between 1981 and 1984 and comprises 5 large dams, 5 small dams,...
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