CADD: Getting the Right Fee
For those engineering consultants who use CADD systems on government cost-plus fixed-fee contracts, the author sugests establishing a CADD cost center that includes all costs involved...
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...
Dredging and Dredged Material Disposal
Waterborne commerce is a major factor in the economy of many countries. Because waterborne commerce depends on the ability of nations to provide adequate navigation channels to transport...
Reagan's Lopsided Energy R&D Policy: Peril to U.S. Security?
The Reagan Administration has made (or proposed) some major shifts in the country's energy policy. It believes the federal energy research and development program should be...
Mall
In order to get its citizens back on its downtown streets after 6 PM, Milwaukee decided to build a mall, combining new buildings along with renovations of existing buildings. The problem...
Public Works and Unemployment: A Panel Discussion
In March 1983,
Proposition 13: Impact on California Public Works
The effect of proposition 13, which was passed in California in June 1978, has hurt the ability of local governments in the state to raise funds to construct new infrastructure and maintain...
Highway Projects -- Can They Be Done in Half the Time?
Delays in highway construction projects result from time-consuming federal and state review procedures, public opposition and funding restrictions. The majority of delays in highway projects...
The Transportation Utility
Every property, including undeveloped lands, benefits from access provided by public roads. Funds for maintaining these roads have been squeezed by rising costs and competition from other...
Are U.S. Firms Handicapped in Winning Foreign Jobs?
U.S. engineers and construction officials complain that inadequate U.S. government spending for feasibility studies viz-a-viz the Europeans and Asians, noncompetitive financing, and an...
Progress Since 1979 in the Netherlands
Since the last progress-report still more emphasis has been laid on quality aspects of surface waters. Municipalities as well as Provinces and the national government are responsible for...
Accelerated Population and Industrial Growth Spurs Completion of Water Project
The total federal government investment for the Southern Nevada Water Project is $171,332,000. The project is one of the largest water resources solutions applied in the U.S. today and...
EPA's Nationwide Urban Runoff Program Designed to Produce Useful Results
EPA's Nationwide Urban Runoff Program (NURP) is composed of 28 projects which are obtaining data on the significance and control of urban runoff to aid federal, state, and...
Washington Office of the American Society of Civil Engineers
The mission, organization, and major public policy activities of the American Society of Civil Engineers are described. Emphasis is given to the ASCE Washington Office and its relation...
Financing Water Projects: Count on Uncle Sam Less!
The federal government has been the chief underwriter of many water resources projects in the U.S., but now changes in the Administrtion's policies have spurred new directions...
Energy Turns the World as a World's Fair Turns a City Around
Energy Expo '82 opens May 1 and will run through October 31, 1982. Host City, Knoxville, Tennessee has taken advantage of the fair as a catalyst for growth and urban renewal...
Will Reforms Improve Sewage Treatment Plant Performance?
After an exhaustive investigation, a Congressional subcommittee recommended more than 20 legislative and administrative reforms aimed at improving performance and economy of the wastewater...
Managing Liability
The Individual's Challenge, the Organization's Challenge, the Project Manager's Challenge
These proceedings are the papers presented during the 1982 Spring Convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers to determine how engineers can live with, manage, and limit liability....
The San Diego Trolley
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Inspecting Town Bridges in Connecticut
A federally financed inventory and inspection program for town bridges was carried out in Connecticut. This article describes how the authors' firm inspected 343 bridges of...
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