ASCE Takes Stock of New Wind Provisions in 7-95 Standard
The Internationalization of ASCE: It's Already Happening
U.S. and Bangladesh Engineers Trade Tips on Flood Control
Davis Reports to ASCE Board on State of Society
Bridge Owners Can Learn Some Lessons from Kobe Earthquake
Gibson Allen, Civil Engineer who Built Madison Square Garden, Dies at 88
Still in Infancy, Structural Control Grows in Importance after Northridge and Kobe Earthquakes
Microtunneling Meets Mother Nature
The world's first ocean thermal energy plant is getting a double. Microtunneling the second ocean intake 80 ft under the Pacific Ocean is proving challenging, partly due to...
Rest in Peace
Engineers working on a subway connection project in the nation's capital successfully employed chemical grouting techniques--some never tried before--to protect a historically...
Sounding Out Scour
As engineers are aware, detection of bridge scour is the best protection. A method for monitoring scour during low, normal or high water flows would also help alleviate some of the ambiguity...
Rising from the River
The Corps of Engineers completed construction of a 20 Million cu yd dredged material containment facility in the Delaware River in 1990. The authors examine the performance of the geotextile...
A Primer on Micropiles
A major study of micropile technology has recently been funded by the Federal Highway Authority and completed by the authors. The subject is defined as a drilled and grouted, cast-in-place,...
A Texas-Sized SSO Solution
Houston is under the gun to control chronic overflows in its sanitary-sewer-collection system--a wet-weather problem that has plagued the city for years. For a problem this massive, the...
Seismic Isolation in Bridges
In the U.S., the use of seismic isolation in new bridge construction and retrofit projects has been growing as awareness of seismic risk has spread across the country since the 1971 San...
Do Civil Engineers Have an Ethical Responsibility to their Client at the Expense of the Environment?
The application of engineering ethics to the environment is at the center of the debate regarding sustainable development. If the environment is to be held above client needs, say many,...
Putting Waste to Work (an Engineer's Obligation to the Environment)
With a limited supply of natural resources and overwhelming amounts of waste material overburdening the country's landfills, engineers are faced with tremendous challenges...
Integrated Planning, Scheduling and Project Control through Constraint-Management
How Owners Can Identify and Employ Safe Contractors
Central Artery/Tunnel Project, Boston: Mitigation Does Work
Environmental Ethics: The Whole Truth
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