Safety: A Professional and Moral Issue

Inspectors Should Demonstrate a Safety Track Record

Site Safety? Engineers Should Step Forward

Virginia Office Building to Be ASCE's New International Headquarters

Technical Activities Group Relocates to ASCE Washington Office; for Knorr, Move Is Just the Beginning

An ASCE Policy Often Overlooked

Nebraska Builds First Metric Bridge in U.S.

More than 20 Young Civil Engineers Share $43,000 in ASCE Scholarships and Fellowships for 1994

Fast Track in the `SLO' Lane Helps Cal Poly Civil Engineers Triumph as Best ASCE Student Group in the Nation

Vice Presidents' Awards Single Out Best Chapters in ASCE's Four Zones

For O'Neil's Firm, China Trip Could Be the Start of Something Big

Ray Clough, ASCE Honorary Member, Wins National Medal of Science

Gateway to Columbus
The Columbus Gateway Arch Bridge is an innovative twin ribbed steel arch structure with a post-tensioned composite concrete deck, transverse post-tensioned composite steel box girders...

Applying Sustainable Development
Experts hoping to lessen the harsh effects of development on Earth's ecosystem have turned to the concept of sustainable development. Engineers are finding old ways to put...

Under Cover
The impermeable properties of flexible membrane liners have made them hot properties for landfill closure-cover systems. But slip-resistant clay might still be the best cover material...

Jet Grouting Gains
Jet grouting, a soil stabilization technology developed in Europe, was introduced in the U.S. in the early 1980s. Due, in part, to the use of inappropriate equipment, jet grouting got...

Geotechnical Baseline Reports
The greatest percentage of disputes in underground construction results from subsurface conditions that are different than from what is indicated in the contract. Adding geotechnical baseline...

Quality Assurance for Hazardous-Waste Projects
An important aspect of an environmental Quality Assurance (QA) Program, as with any system designed to improve quality of performance, is the specification of objectives which, if met,...

Short Aggregate Piers Defeat Poor Soils
A short aggregate pier system, developed to provide an economical alternative to the overexcavation/replacement technique, has been used used since 1988 to control settlement of structures...

Protecting a Pipeline
A 30-inch oil pipeline, presently under construction through mountainous terrain in central Colombia, transports petroleum from the Cusiana oil field to the coast. The discovery of the...

 

 

 

 

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