Performance of Horizontal and Vertical Barriers
Horizontal and vertical barriers have been used on transportation facilities to control expansive soils and minimize their damages. The effort is to minimize moisture change in the soil...
Can the U.S. Compete?
Though some American firms, particularly those providing turnkey delivery systems, are very competitive abroad, as a rule U.S. engineering and construction firms face daunting obstacles...
Automated People Movers IV
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Geographic Information Systems and their Application in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
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Unsaturated Soils
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Waterpower '93
This proceedings contains the papers presented at the Waterpower '93 conference held in Nashville, Tennessee, August 10-13, 1993. The conference brought together owners, planners,...
Vietnam: Worth Looking Into
If it is to enter the world economy, let alone play catch-up with the booming economies of some of its neighbors, Vietnam requires massive numbers of infrastructure projects: roads, bridges,...
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...
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....
Engineering Sustainable Development
Despite some isolated environmental victories in the past few decades, on a system-wide level the problems�from acid rain to destruction of the rain forest�are getting worse. Can humanity...
Guidelines for PC-Based Data Acquisition Systems for Hydraulic Engineering
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.,...
Tying Up The Artery
After six years, preliminary design is almost complete on one of the nation's largest, and most complicated, public works project, the Boston Central Artery project. At an...
Airport Towers: A New Generation
Airport control towers are a unique building type with monumental significance, both for the cities that own and operate the airports, and for the FAA which owns and operates them. Airport...
So Much Pavement, So Little Time
At its most basic, pavement management requires taking inventory of a pavement network, doing a condition assessment, setting up a database, then synthesizing the data collected for an...
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...
Geosynthetics Conquer the Landfill Law
Los Angeles' last operating landfill is undergoing a major expansion using innovative materials in the liner system to overcome difficult site conditions. The design represents...
Overcoming the Woes of Worldwide Work
The author, a civil engineer based in Gibraltar, discusses a variety of pitfalls encountered in international practice, with case histories and lessons learned. They can be caused by differences...
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