Quality in the Constructed Project
a Guide for Owners, Designers and Constructors
This final version of the
Structures for Enhanced Safety and Physical Security
This book presents the state-of-the-art in the general subject of structures for enhanced safety and physical security. The technical papers written are by engineers and researchers who...
Tourism Versus Conservation in Fernando De Noronha Island, Brazil
Conscious of the problems created by tourism expansion and searching for a definition of the uses compatible to the restoration and the maintenance of ecological equilibrium, the previous...
GIS:Technology for Transportation
Geographic Information Systems show promise as important tools for transportation engineers. As computer hardware continues to become less expensive and more powerful, and as the software...
Understanding Generator Static Excitation System
This paper explains some of the basic terms and features associated with a static excitation system (SES) to enable non-specialists to specify it according to their requirements. A simple...
Variables Impacting Design Effectiveness Key to Project Quality
This paper reports on two-year research at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, which was supported by the Construction Research Institute (CII). Over forty (40) input variables to design...
Evaluation of Design Effectiveness
Design is basically a subjective process, limited by rules of mechanics and physics but oriented toward optimizing certain features determined by a client and reflected in the stated criteria...
Managing Mixed Waste
The category of mixed waste is an ambiguous one that is not clearly defined nor assigned to any one federal agency. These wastes, according to definitions in several government documents,...
Lead: Taking it from the Tap
Medical evidence is lowering the definition of a safe concentration of lead. In turn, there has been an effort to reduce lead in drinking water. Solutions are complicated, as many lead...
Lunar Agricultural Requirements Definition
Requirements are presented for an agricultural system that would supply a lunar base. This agricultural system consists of plant growth units established within pressurized modules. Each...
Soil Nailing Debate
Are U.S. contractors and engineers using the best models for designing soil nailing projects? Here in the U.S., the method has attracted the interest of contractors, engineers, research...
Guidelines for Reporting of Environmental Contaminant Data
To evaluate long-term temporal and large scale spatial trends in the absence of long-term monitoring programs, it is necessary to use data composited from other surveys and research projects....
A Comparative Assessment of Coastal Area Management Initiatives in Latin America
This paper provides five criteria for comparing the nineteen coastal countries within Latin America in terms that are relevant to the management of coastal resources or environments. The...
Use of Ocean Resources Criteria for Marine Tourism Planning and Management
A series of questionnaires and a modified weighting procedure developed by Gearing, Swart and Var were employed to obtain the ranking of ocean recreation criteria. An open-ended questionnaire...
Urban Waterfronts: Does Every Use Have a Place?
This paper is a comparison of different state definitions and techniques used to manage competing uses on the waterfront. Every use does have a place on the waterfront. But that place...
Selection of Appropriate Technology in Irrigation Canal Systems
A variety of approaches to irrigation management and system operation exist and great care should be taken in selecting the one to be used in new or rehabilitation/modernization projects....
Forty Years of Computational Hydraulics?1960-2000
The definition of computational hydraulics as used herein is: the application of numerical methods for the solution of problems of hydraulic flows, largely as practiced by the civil engineering...
Project Controls
Needs and Solutions
This volume contains the proceedings of an ASCE Specialty Conference on
A Possible Definition of the Input Function for a Rainfall-Runoff Model with Lumped Parameters
It may be useful to introduce, instead of a 'mean areal rainfall', another input function, defined as that input which is transformed by the model into a known...
Commensurate with the Scope of the Project: Where Does the Project Environment End?
This paper seeks to contribute to a common understanding by considering the definition of project scope in the context of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulations governing...
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