Starting a Project
Project start-up marks the end of the planning activities and the beginning of the project. The PM must take the steps necessary to set up job numbers, job data sheets, assemble data needed...
Project Completion
The project closeout or completion period is one of extreme importance. This is the time for final review of the plans and specifications and probable construction cost. All last-minute...
Cable-Stayed Canal Crossing
To lure some traffic from overburdened U.S. 13, a major north-south route on the Eastern Seaboard, Delaware is constructing a 47-mile relief route that will cross the C&O Canal...
Bridge to the Past
Constructed by Maya builders during the seventh century, the PreColumbian bridge at Yaxchilan was the longest in the world for over seven hundred years. Little remains today of this unique...
Engineers and ADA
When it comes to the Americans with Disabilities Act, design professionals have special liability concerns. Engineers not only have to ensure that clients meet the act's stringent...
Hong Kong Flies into the Future
Hong Kong's new airport, Chek Lap Kok, is scheduled to open in 1997. That is the year in which China takes over the government of Hong Kong from Great Britain. The airport,...
Hospital Over a Highway
New York Hospital is undergoing a $1 billion expansion that includes construction of a new building over the FDR Drive in Manhattan using air rights. The starting point for this building...
Touchdown for O-Cell Test
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was badly damaged by the Northridge earthquake. There was seven months to complete 3 years of work to be ready in time for football season. The project...
Bridge Repair on the Fast Track
For repair with tight deadlines, conventional approaches to inspection and repair might not be fast enough. Where the concept of design-build leaves off, the contractual solution of inspect-repair...
The Great Texas Prison Caper
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, under court order to relieve prison overcrowding, worked with a team of six construction management firms and a building fabrication/erection...
Soft Ground Not Easy Ground for TBM
The King County Department of Metropolitan Services (formerly called Metro), faced with the need to transfer wastewater from the West Seattle drainage basin to a secondary treatment plant...
The Science of Water
The Foundation of Modern Hydraulics
Guidelines for Evaluating Aging Penstocks
The Toll Road That Wouldn't Die
When government and business leaders scooped the first shovelfuls of earth from a field near Dulles International Airport on September 29, 1993, it marked the start of construction on...
Bart to the Future
Construction has reached the midway point on the $2.7 billion San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Extensions Program. The first three extensions, due to open in 1995, will expand...
Restructuring
America and Beyond
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Composite Sketch
Composite materials from the aerospace and military sectors are showing promise in highway, bridge and transportation applications. Some of the current and potential applications of composites...
Wood Working
Engineers may be more accustomed to working with concrete and steel, but for certain projects aesthetics, cost or other considerations may make wood the preferred choice. According to...
Trenchless in San Diego
The Middletown Trunk Sewer is located near downtown San Diego. Sewage backups prompted a study, recommending construction of a larger replacement pipeline. The City of San Diego prepared...
Guidelines for Field Evaluations of Pothole Repairs
Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center, a CERF Service Center. This report describes the HITEC evaluation plan for Bondade,...
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