The Financing Fray
Interview with two executives of the U.S. firm Morrison-Knudsen: Donn Smith, senior vice president of project finance at M-K's International Group, and Richard White, vice...
Dutch Globetrotting Pays Off
The Dutch have been doing business overseas for centuries, and Dutch consultants today continue the tradition. Several Dutch consulting firms are profiled. At Fugro-McClelland, N.V., Chief...
The Copper-Clad Library
The design vocabulary for the new Phoenix Central Library includes saddlebags, power bellies, tensegrity and corrugated siding. The saddlebags are copper-clad, steel-framed core structures...
Hong Kong's Wastewater Underground
Standard Hong Kong methods for siting the new $18 million Stanley Wastewater Treatment Plant in Hong Kong Island's South District were running into trouble. The rocky coastal...
Runoff As A Resource
Recent studies have shown that storm-water flows from urban and industrial areas typically contain significant quantities of the same pollutants found in wastewater and industrial discharges....
Reclaiming Clear-Cut Land
The Savannah (Ga.) Airport Commission needed to expand the city's international airport to meet projected needs through 2007. The expansion was designed with Greiner, Inc.,...
The Big No-Dig
As part of the Boston Harbor cleanup project, engineers will have the opportunity to make a rare, side-by-side comparison of open-cut construction and no-dig technology during the Wellesley...
Egypt's Real-Time Water Management
The challenge and complexity of efficiently managing the distribution of the 55 billion m that Egypt draws from the Nile every year has prompted the country's Ministry of...
In-Service Durability Evaluation of Armourstone
A summary flow diagram for rock evaluation, general to all rock types and engineering applications of rock is introduced. It is then applied to armourstone. Increasing detail within this...
Laboratory Testing of Stone for Rubble Mound Breakwaters: An Evaluation
The quality of the final stone product hinges on the combination of two factors - rock properties and environmental conditions. The environmental conditions associated with production...
An Example of Rubble Mound Construction Procedures
The Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia, is in an exposed coastal zone that is now suffering from major problems with both the availability of suitable large rubble armour and its durability...
The Optimum Gravity Dam
A method is presented for optimizing the cost of a dam by varying the properties of the material and the shape of the dam to produce the lowest cost water barrier to perform the required...
The Construction of New Victoria Dam, Australia
The paper discusses various aspects of the construction of the New Victoria Dam, a 52 m high, high-paste content RCC dam constructed near Perth, Western Australia. The mix design and its...
Design of Miel II?A High RCC Dam
Miel II Dam is a 141 m high RCC structure designed for the tropical mountains of central Columbia. Interesting features are its height (considerably higher than any existing RCC Dam),...
Concrete-Faced RCC Dams
In the past 10 years, roller compacted concrete (RCC) has gained wide acceptance as a cost effective material for constructing and rehabilitating dams. Since the first RCC dams had seepage...
RCC Mixes and Properties Using Poor Quality Materials?Concepcion Dam
This paper discusses aggregate studies, mix investigations, and material property tests for the relatively poor quality materials available for use in RCC at Concepcion Dam....
Thermal-Structural Analysis Methods for RCC Dams
Current procedures for evaluating temperature control and the placement of contraction joints in roller compacted concrete dams are not always evaluated with the aid of detailed analysis...
Durability of Stone for Rubble Mound Breakwaters
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Small Systems Struggle
Across the U.S., small communities are caught in a bind. Local governments bear the primary day-to-day burden of caring for public works, responsible for 70% of the nation's...
The Heartbeat of the Artery
One of the most ambitious infrastructure megaprojects in recent memory, Boston's $5 billion Central Artery runs the gamut of civil engineering disciplines. Design, highway,...
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