Multipoint Monitoring
Monitoring groundwater is necessary to guard against pollution and to provide data for water resource management. The Orange County (Calif.) Water District has embarked on a program of...
National Water Conference
This book contains papers presented at the ASCE National Water Conference held at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE, July 17-20, 1989. The National Water Conference was cosponsored...
Legal, Institutional, Financial and Environmental Aspects of Water Issues
The papers included in this publication were presented at the 1989 LIFE symposium and address the legal, institutional, financial and environmental aspects of water issues. These aspects...
Quick Response on the Mississippi
In November 1987, the Mississippi River broke through the foundation of the St. Anthony Fall's Lower Dam Hydropower Plant. The plant's owner, the Northern State...
Civil Engineering Guidelines for Planning and Designing Hydroelectric Developments
Hydraulic Engineering
The papers in this book were presented at the ASCE National Conference on Hydraulic Engineering in August, 1989 at New Orleans, Louisiana. The objective of the Conference was to provide...
Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Systems
Prepared by the Task Committee on Risk and Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Systems of the Committee on Probabilistic Approaches to Hydraulics of the Hydraulics Division of ASCE....
Water Use by Naturally Occurring Vegetation
An Annotated Bibliography
This report was prepared by the Task Committee on Water Requirements of Natural Vegetation Committee, a special subcommittee of the Committee on Irrigation Water Requirements, Irrigation...
Sediment Transport Modeling
This is the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sediment Transport Modeling, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, August, 1989. It reviews the state of the art and presents the latest...
Computing in Civil Engineering
Computers in Engineering Practice
This book contains papers presented at the Sixth Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering held on September 11-13, 1989 in Atlanta, GA. This series, initiated in 1978, provides a continuing...
Computerized Decision Support Systems for Water Managers
More than 200 public and private water experts from across the United States, Canada, England, France, Belgium, and Portugal gathered at Colorado State University, June 27-30, 1988, to...
The Race for Smart Cars
Prendergast describes the technological elements involved in Intelligent Vehicle/Highway Systems (IVHS), current programs in Europe, Japan and the U.S. aimed at implementing IVHS systems,...
Automated People Movers II
New Links for Land Use?Automated People Mover Opportunities for Major Activity Centers
This Proceedings, which consists of 94 papers presented at the Second International Conference on Automated People Movers (APM's) held in Miami, Florida on March 13-15, 1989,...
Post-Audits of Environmental Programs and Projects
This is the proceedings of a session at the ASCE Convention, New Orleans, October 1989. Post-audits include evaluation, assessment, and audit of the effects, both intended and unintended,...
Building Commissioning
In order to detect and correct defects in a timely, cost effective manner, HVAC system commissioning has recently been used as part of building construction. Preliminary evidence suggests...
Selection of Consultants for Municipal Water/Wastewater Projects
The City of Dallas, Texas Water Utilities Department is responsible for the design and construction of all needed water and wastewater facilities including treatment plants, pump stations,...
Highway Project Constructability
Results from on-going research into highway project constructibility are discussed. Research objectives and methods are outlined. Prime constructibility objectives are presented along...
Specification as a Requirement for Hot Mix Asphalt
A brief description of the current national research programs that affect the development of specifications is included in this paper. Elements of the Strategic Highway Research Program...
Utilization of Specifications
Project specifications need to be practical, enforceable, and above all must be clear and specific enough to enable any competent builder to understand them, bid on them and carry them...
An Effective Cost Control System
Project budgeting consists of converting the capital cost estimate into accountable cost centers by physical or process area and classifications of work. The primary purpose of the project...
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