Rehabbing Bridges Under Traffic
Four urban examples demonstrate how an owner's decision to keep it open during rehabilitation construction forces the designers to contend with an extra set of problems. Reanchoring...
A New Angle on Ground-Water Remediation
When engineers from Black & Veatch Waste Science (BVWS) went to Tinker Air Force Base to examine the site of a hazardous waste cleanup job the service had hired them for, they...
Modular Evolution
The construction industry typically thinks of modular steel bridges in terms of the World War II vintage Bailey Bridge. The Bailey Bridge was designed to be quickly deployed to replace...
Computerized Facility Information Management Systems
The paper describes a computerized information system that can be used in place of the traditional operations and maintenance manual used by facilities personnel. Plant operations and...
Personal Computer Model to Evaluate Performance of Construction Systems/Services
Worldwide competition has finally impacted the construction industry and facility managers. As manufacturers become more competitive, the cost of doing business becomes more critical....
Capturing As-built Project Information for Facility Management
Complete, accurate, and timely provision of as-built information plays a critical role in the optimal upkeep of a facility. Facility operators/maintainers usually are delivered a constructed...
An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Pavement Maintenance Decision Support System
An important component of any Pavement Maintenance Decision Support System (PMDSS) is the condition survey and rating procedures. Data obtained from these procedures are the primary basis...
Flexible Extracation of Practical Knowledge from Bridge Databases
Bridge databases contain significant information that can assist in future bridge management decisions. The effective utilization of this information requires facilities for the flexible...
Performance of New York's Long-span Bridges
This paper is a work-in-progress report on a database on the performance of long-span bridges located in New York State and built between 1801 and 1993. Of the 68 long-span bridges - bridges...
Expert System for Bridge Scour and Stream Stability
Significant engineering judgment is required to ascertain the scour susceptibility of bridges. This judgment is typically acquired through many years of experience. This paper describes...
The Integrated Systems Approach to Facilities Management
This paper investigates the condition and use of the systems for facilities management and discusses process and considerations for improving the long term value of integrated facilities...
Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Systems
The aging and deterioration of our water supply infrastructure have resulted in performance deficiencies. Limited budgets require that resources for maintenance and rehabilitation be allocated...
Risk-Based Budgeting for Maintenance Dredging
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must estimate the budget required to conduct maintenance dredging at hundreds of sites across the country. The amount of funds needed to do the maintenance...
Meeting 503 Regulations for Ten Biosolids Incinerators (And Associated Stories)
This paper provides an overview of the Hampton Roads Sanitation District's Part 503 regulations compliance program regarding incineration of biosolids at five of its treatment facilities....
Optimizing Secondary Clarifier Performance: A Presentation Outline
Optimizing secondary clarifier performance is an activity that involves a consideration of the design, the maintenance, and the operation of the clarifier. Although the basic shape of...
Bridge Scour Instrumentation
This paper presents a brief status report of research funded by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP Project 21-3, Instrumentation for Measuring Scour at Bridge Piers...
Design Considerations for Use of Wedge Wire Screens at Surface Water Intake Structures
This paper provides the suggested guidelines for design, construction, operation and maintenance of wedge-shaped wire cylindrical screens used for aquatic biota and trash and debris screening...
Hocking River Sedimentation Study
The channel improvement project located on the Hocking River in Athens, Ohio is estimated to have prevented over 68 million dollars in flood damages since its completion in 1971. However,...
Austrian Guideline and National Report on the Use of Shotcrete
The purpose of this guideline is the standardization of quality and a uniform procedure for the production and testing of shotcrete from the technical and engineering point of view. In...
Geographic Information Systems for Highway/Sign Maintenance
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be a key element toward achieving improved management of all transportation facilities for municipal and state Departments of Transportation (DOT)...
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