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The Job-Order Contracting Solution
A new method of contracting, Job Order Contracting, combines many contracts into one administered by one project team. They are competitively bid, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity,...

CAD for Small Hydro Projects
The quest to reduce design costs and improve design quality by raising productivity is familiar to every manager and designer. This article examines how CAD can play a role by examining...

Rehabbing Bridges Under Traffic
Four urban examples demonstrate how an owner's decision to keep it open during rehabilitation construction forces the designers to contend with an extra set of problems. Reanchoring...

Success Syndrome: The Collapse of the Dee Bridge
Scaling up existing successful designs can cause latent weaknesses to become dominant, leading to catastrophe. By studying past failures where this has happened--for example, the 1847...

Locking Into Success
In 1961, at Wheeler Lock in Alabama, crews with the Tennessee Valley Authority tried to incorporate an existing lock wall into a new cofferdam. A major portion of the land wall slid about...

OSHA and the Design Professional
Since the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the question of how the role of design professionals - engineers and architects - relate to the safety of a construction...

MPOS Become VIPS
The 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act made metropolitan planning organizations very important players in transportation decisionmaking. MPOs have been around since...

Road to Recovery
The effect of the Loma Prieta earthquake on San Francisco's elevated viaduct system is still being felt more than four years later. Immediately after the quake, the entire...

A New Angle on Ground-Water Remediation
When engineers from Black & Veatch Waste Science (BVWS) went to Tinker Air Force Base to examine the site of a hazardous waste cleanup job the service had hired them for, they...

Negotiating Equity for Management of DOE Wastes

Secretary of Energy Review of the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program

The Long Term Radioactive Storage Alternative

On the Benefits of an Integrated Nuclear Complex for Nevada

An International Approach to Radioactive Waste Management

Nuclear Arms Reduction, Nuclear Proliferation and High-Level Radioactive Waste Management

Testing the Spatial Neutrality of the REMI Net Migration Equation

1993 Recreational Vehicle (RV) Park Census in Beatty and Pahrump, Nevada

The Interactive Process: A Formal Means to Improved Relations

Environmental Justice: Implications for Siting of Federal Radioactive Waste Management Facilities

Monitored Retrievable Storage: A Test of Cultural Values and A Symbol of Tribal Sovereignty

 

 

 

 

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