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A Monumental Task
The geotechnical consultants, structural engineer and contractor combined to overcome difficult soils, underground subway structures and buried utilities when building the foundations...

Cranes, Concrete, Construction...and Computers
Computers are already firmly entrenched in the design process. Now, they're touching all corners of construction. Applications range from traditional project management tasks...

Appropriate Technology for Flood Warnings
Computers can help protect cities and other developed areas by enhancing flood warning systems, but smaller communities may not be able to take advantage of their sophistication. The Corps...

The Evolution of an Environmental Monitor
After more than 40 years of planning, litigation, design and construction, one of the nation's most controversial highway projects is finished. The completion earlier this...

Taming Tornado Alley
Some structures�such as nuclear power plants�need complete protection from tornadoes regardless of the high costs of design and construction. Public facilities need protection too, but...

Expert Systems: Ready to Hit the Road?
Expert systems, programs that take the rules a person uses to solve a problem and encodes them into a computer, are starting to get serious examination from DOTs around the country. The...

CAD and the Corps
CAD has been a near standard feature of engineering design for the last decade, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has found that the way their installations have gone about designing...

Costs, Schedule Shrink as Airport Garage Expands

Designers Cover Tricky Treatment-Plant Site

Cofferdam Construction Speeds Powerplant Rehab

Warehouse Tilts Toward Speedy Completion

SSC Tunnel Job Awarded, but Japan Witholds Funds

IVHS Advances in Chicago

Infrastructure Privatization Accelerates

Music School Trumpets the Sounds of Silence

Scale Model to Test Advanced Nuclear Reaction

CERF Draws Construction Lessons from Japan

New Transportation Bill Dominates TRB Meeting

Clean Waters Taking a Toll on Timber Structures

Multibillion-Dollar Resort Planned for Japan

 

 

 

 

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