The Magnificent 17
Only two of 1995's record 19 nominees could win the 1995 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award and the Award of Merit, but the 17 remaining nominees are noteworthy...
Beyond Water Witching
Ground-water exploration is usually an uncertain and expensive endeavor. Since late 1993, however, Golder Associates Inc., Redmond, Wash., has been working with time-domain electromagnetics...
Triumphant Arches
This year's Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award of Merit goes to the Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge in Tennessee, the first precast concrete segmental arch bridge...
Designing for Drama
Near the Passaic River in Newark, N.J., not far from the famous Iron Bound restaurant district and Newark's Penn Station, construction crews swarm around the steel skeleton...
New Construction Materials Proliferate in Japan
Research and development of new construction materials is extensive in Japan, and many new materials are being used in Japan now. The author analyzes the research environment in Japan,...
Specifying End Results
Quality of materials and workmanship directly influences the life of pavement, maintenance costs, levels of service and user costs. End result specifications (ERS) make a step towards...
Construction with Large Stone
Technical Engineering and Design Guides, as adapted from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 13 This manual provides guidance on effective and economical...
Innovative Technologies for Site Remediation and Hazardous Waste Management
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Restoring a Stream Corridor
The Stream Restoration Project is an environmental remediation project in a residential area in the Northeast United States. The soil in the flood plain of the stream was contaminated...
The Bell Tolls for Toll Booths
Many older toll facilities have reached their traffic-handling capacity, blocking the efficient movement of cars onto toll facilities. The article examines problems associated with reconfiguring...
Wider Ride to the Rainbow
Engineers on the project to widen the entrance to the Rainbow Bridge between New York and Ontario let the aesthetics of the Niagara Falls setting dictate their design decisions. The challenge...
Rapid Remediation
The Florida Department of Transportation encountered petroleum contamination in the right-of-way of a large highway construction project in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. In order to avoid costly...
Case Histories of the Design, Construction, and Maintenance of Rubble Mound Structures
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Construction Congress
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Soil Improvement for Earthquake Hazard Mitigation
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Waste Containment Facilities
This book presents a comprehensive description of recommended procedures for construction quality assurance (CQA) and control (CQC) for waste containment facilities. Chapter 1 describes...
Freeway through a Superfund Site
The Red Mountain Freeway is the centerpiece of a 171 km $2.6 billion system of freeways and expressways under construction in Maricopa County, Ariz. For 3 km in Tempe, the freeway passes...
A Second Life for Dredged Material
To ensure safe, navigable waters, rivers and waterways must be dredged. Dredging in the U.S. requires long-term alternatives for placement of more than 300 million cu yds of dredged material...
Divided We Fall
This article examines the aftermath of a falsework failure during the construction of a Mississippi River bridge in Minnesota. The author reviews the legal issues that arose from the collapse,...
Rising from the River
The Corps of Engineers completed construction of a 20 Million cu yd dredged material containment facility in the Delaware River in 1990. The authors examine the performance of the geotextile...
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