Back to the People: Dallas' Blueprint for the 21st Century
Back in the mid-1960s, residents of Dallas, Texas were trying to live down the shame felt by having had a U.S. President assassinated in their city. How to do it? Goals for Dallas was...
Computer Cartography Offers County Unlimited Combinations and Considerable Savings
A Sacramento County pilot program to compare conventional scribed overlay mapping with computer cartography has shown that initial savings of nearly $6,000 per square mile result when...
Economics of Preventive Highway Maintenance
The preventive maintenance concept for asphaltic highway surface care is intended to give all areas of the Kansas Department of Transportation the necessary procedures for such work. The...
TWA Hangars of Thin Shell Design
TWA hangars at the Kansas City International Airport match the shape of the giant jets. The design molds hyperbolic paraboloid concrete shells into an efficient shop area. Since the design...
Runway Rebuilding with Daily Use
At Ontario the main runway was rebuilt and 4-inch bituminous overlay put down at night while the runway was in daily use. Existing pavement was portland cement concrete with bituminous...
Fly Ash Pavements, Run Ways to Take Off�
Significant cost savings were realized in paving a new container terminal storage yard in Portland, Oregon. A computer analysis showed that a multi-layer pavement would be best, with each...
The Constructed Environment with Man as the Measure as Part of the Quality System in Construction
Proceedings of the Engineering Foundation Conference held at Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, November 3-8, 1974. Sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers....
Access to Airport
The report suggests a process for assessing the need for transport solution, and a method for designing airport access system that are responsive to specific human values. The report includes...
Airport Terminal Facilities
Proceedings of the ASCE-AOCI Specialty Conference on Airport Terminal Facilities, held in Houston, Texas, April 10-14, 1967. Sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the...
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