Waterfront Parks in the Boston Area
Two recently completed waterfront parks in Cambridge and East Boston, Massachusetts are discussed. The Bird Island Flats 'Harbor Walk' project is a 15-foot wide,...
Improving Maintenance Performance
This discussion concerns Maintenance Management concepts that emphasize how the human element among Port personnel can be organized and efforts channeled so as to: increase the actual...
A Multi-User Fender Design and Installation
The increase in damage frequency to the existing Timber Fender System during the change-over from military to commercial/industrial users resulted in a call for design solutions from the...
Report of Task Committee on Drydock Design Criteria
This paper briefly summarizes the work carried out by a Task Committee on Drydock Design Criteria which was established by the Committee on Ports and Harbors. The Committee was established...
Puget Sound Alluvium: A Challenge in Design of Pile Supported Port Facilities with Dredged Slopes
The geotechnical investigation, evaluations, and recommendations for the Port of Seattle Terminal 18/20 Improvement Project are described and compared with observed performance during...
Geotechnical Considerations in the Design of the Wando Terminal Wharf Extension, Charleston, South Carolina
The South Carolina State Ports Authority (SPA) is currently examining construction concepts for the proposed 1,200-foot wharf extension and 40 acres of adjacent upland development at the...
Rehabilitation of Gravity Wharf by Underpinning
The Municipal Wharf at the Port of Providence, Rhode Island, is currently under rehabilitation to accommodate modern trends in marine cargo handling and shipping. The three-phased project...
Overdredging at Existing Gravity Structure
Pacific Elevators Ltd. decided to upgrade Berth No. 2 to handle ships up to 70,000 DWT. The difficulty was to maintain the support of the cribs after dredging of the berth to minus 45...
Underwater Compaction of Sand Fill During Placement
A system and related equipment have been developed, and tested on a recent dredged fill project, to compact sand, either clean or with limited silt, in lifts several feet in thickness...
Marginal Wharf and Embankments?Seismic Design
This paper presents some of the seismic considerations used for the improvements at Berths 225 to 229 at the Port of Los Angeles. The design of the improvements was complicated by the...
Local Government Infrastructure Management
The collection of papers presents real world experiences and practical suggestions for improving infrastructure management in local governments. A case study is presented on how a computer-based...
Construction Materials for Civil Engineering Projects
The materials of construction in use today have grown in number, increased in complexity, expanded in application and multiplied in utilization over those in use just a short time ago....
Lifeline Seismic Risk Analysis?Case Studies
These papers employ design concepts and procedures in lifeline seismic risk analysis. Two of the papers describe the seismic hazards in the northwestern United States. A systems model...
Tiebacks for Bulkheads
Tiebacks were once used primarily to support temporary structures such as supported excavations. However, the use of tiebacks has been gradually expanded to include the support of permanent...
Effectiveness of Highway Safety Improvements
This book contains the thirty papers presented at the third Highway Safety Specialty Conference sponsored by the Committee on Traffic and Safety of the Highway Division of the American...
Planning Engineering and Construction Projects
Planning is a recognized element in the success of engineering and construction projects. Two activities at the level of the firm?manpower planning and business planning?also play a major...
Expert Systems in Civil Engineering
The importance of expert systems, also referred to as knowledge based expert systems, has been growing in all areas of civil engineering practice. The papers in this book were presented...
Construction Innovation
Demands, Successes and Lessons
Increasing complexity of the constructed product, greater demands for construction cost effectiveness, and foreign competition demand increased innovation in construction. The papers in...
In-House Training Programs
The papers in this book address timely subjects and issues on in-house training programs that are of particular interest to the civil engineering profession. The five papers presented...
Superminis for Super CAD
Many second time users of computer-aided design software and hardware, in their efforts to have more power and flexibility, are switching to superminicomputers and building their own systems....
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