Practitioners Return to Campus for Second Year of ASCE Program
Lehigh's Fritz Laboratory is Civil Engineering Landmark
Computer Design Failure: Who Pays?
Buyer Beware: Pinning Liability on Vendors is Virtually Impossible for Now
The Most Dangerous Technology Ever Built
Criminal Engineers: Engineers Who Prefer Pirating to Purchasing Will Pay the Price
An Ounce of Prevention: How to Stay Legal
Seismic Assessment of Tailings Dams
A significant portion of the operating and closed large dams in North America are tailings dams used to impound wastes from mining operations. Often these dams were built by mine personnel...
Tying Back a Landslide
A slope covered with landslide debris is never the most desirable site on which to build, but sometimes it is the only one available. For the Forks of Butte hydroelectric power project,...
The Caisson Solution
Detroit is expanding its wastewater treatment plant to drastically reduce combined sewer overflows. The expansion, however, is being done on an extremely congested 4 acre tract of land...
Manholes and Microtunneling
Contractors are for the Oakwood Beach Interceptor Sewer Project, on Staten Island, N.Y., were having difficulty. Glacial tills and a high water table made working 90 ft below the ground...
Norway's Olympic Cavern
A mountainous task had been undertaken by Norwegian firms in constructing the world's largest in-mountain colosseum for the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Norway. The Norwegian...
Put to the Test
In the construction industry, the concept of life-cycle cost applies not only to the infrastructure itself, but to the materials that go in to building that infrastructure. To improve...
In Too Deep
Urban excavation is fraught with risks and potential liability for engineers and contractors. Environmental issues (such as Superfund regulations and environmental impact statements),...
Landfill-Cover Conflict
Last July, EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD), in Cincinnati held a geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) workshop to discuss the latest technology and regulations for...
Settling Down Easy
In order to more fully participate in the international and Asian Pacific aviation network, it was decided to establish a highly efficient 24-hour a day operation at the New Kansai International...
Mining for Building Expansion
Engineers adapted mining techniques to tunnel under a vibration sensitive manufacturing operation to create new working space below. IBM workers needed more working space at their Vermont...
Underground Research: Here and There
Geotechnical research in Europe, Japan and the U.S. were compared in a study funded by the National Science Foundation. Visits to research facilities and several surveys resulted in two...
Tort Liability: Limiting U.S. Innovation
Dusty Roads? Just Beet lt
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