Guidelines for Transmission Line Structural Loading
Procedures are provided for the selection of design loads and load factors based on the latest research and state-of-the-art design techniques. This selection has an effort on the reliability...
Practical Guidelines for the Selection, Design and Installation of Piles
This report provides an objective practical basis for the design and construction of pile foundations. Potential problems and uncertainties in pile design and construction are emphasized....
On Stealing Software
Current estimates of illegal software copying vary from two to ten copies per program on the market. The Copyright Act of 1976 specifically disallows such copying, but much so-called piracy...
Computer Links Facilities Management, Mapping
Computerizing of map drafting alone was not cost effective, so electric and gas utilities are using their systems to aid in managing their facilities. This article is a case history of...
Software Development: For Experts Only?
Civil engineering firms tend to buy ready-made software rather than develop it themselves. But if existing software for specific applications is unavailable or of poor quality, then the...
Managing by Database
Many computer programs are available for managing the operations and maintenance aspects of a facility. To date, most computer programs for managing a facility have been generated by mechanical...
Electronic Traffic Management
High technology has entered the world of traffic and transportation management with such new optical and electronic devices as transponders, retro-reflective stickers, microprocessors,...
Light Rail Gains New Momentum
Light rail, which evolved from the old trolley lines, is staging a comeback in U.S. cities. Light rail is a fixed guideway, operator controlled system, offering an alternative to heavy...
Building on Air
Copley Place, a $500 million hotel/retail/office/residential complex, was built on air rights over the Massachusetts Turnpike and an adjacent railroad in Boston. Two hotels occupy land...
Temperature Effects on Lasers
While lasers have markedly improved the accuracy of engineering, air temperature gradients can reduce that drastically. Based on a sewer project that used lasers to align all the pipe,...
Superhydro
In 1986, when its six turbine/pump-generator/motor units will be in operation, the Bath County Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project in Virginia will be the world's largest....
Taj Mahals in the Desert
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has just opened two major international airports and is in the process of building a third. These are unusual projects in that designers and contractors were...
Alluvial Fans: Novel Flood Challenge
After disastrous floods hit Cabazon, Calif., engineers faced the challenge of balancing concerns about protecting property and life (by limiting or prohibiting construction) against the...
Itaipu, South America's Grande Dame
When fully operational, the Itaipu hydropower project, located along the Parana River between Brazil and Paraguay, will be the world's largest. In 1989, it is expected to...
Retaining Walls: Competition or Anarchy?
Until the last 10 years, when a retaining wall was needed a cast-in-place concrete gravity or cantilever wall was used. Then along came Reinforced Earth, and this proprietary system began...
Prestressed Concrete Pavements: Status Report
Prestressed concrete is cost-competitive with and requires less maintenance than conventional concrete, but acceptance of prestressed pavements in this country has been slow. While Europe...
Project Documentation and Management Using Jobsite Microcomputers
The use of onsite microcomputers to handle the project documentation tasks of labor, equipment, and material logs, correspondence, daily diaries and inspection reports will enable project...
Use of LP: An Aggregate Blending Example
The use of well known linear programs which in the past were largely confined to relatively limited mainframe usage, for the management of engineered construction is explored using a well...
Computers in the Construction Resident Office
The application of small computers to the management and control of construction projects is obvious. However, what benefits could be realized from their application in a resident office,...
Computer Estimating System-Design / Implementation
The Ball, Ball and Brosamer (BBB) Construction Company of Danville, California recognized the need to computerize their estimating process in the fall of 1981. This paper is a narrative...
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