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Building Beneath Boston
Up/down construction is a method in which a project's substructure and superstructure are simultaneously built. The substructure's wall, column and foundation...

The Human Factor in Failures
Human shortcomings cause three-quarters of project failures. A study of 500 case histories led to this assumption. One such failure at the Walter Bouldin dam in Alabama, is described in...

Performance Assessment in Early Phases of the Repository Design Process
Assessments of post-closure performance are an integral part of the design process for a repository for high-level nuclear waste. They provide input to the establishment of design requirements...

A Case History of Successful Nuclear Power Plant Licensing
Statewide siting studies, site-selection, site characterization and receipt of a construction permit for the Palo Verde Project were accomplished in 50 months. This achievement was made...

Geologic Sample Handling and Logging at Apache Leap, Arizona
Early in 1990, the Yucca Mountain Project Office (Project Office; presently the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project Office) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) completed two...

A Model for Effective Intergovernmental Planning
Effective intergovernmental planning processes are essential to the resolution of potential affects created by federal projects. In this paper, two successful planning efforts are described....

Conclusions from Project-90 With Regard to a Regulatory Framework
A five year performance assessment program, Project-90 [1], has been concluded by the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate, SKI. The project was defined to develop independent assessment...

Perils of Project Development on Public Land Open to Mining
Conducting a government project on public land open to the general mining laws can result in added costs, legal entanglements, schedule uncertainties, and the potential for unanticipated...

Being Responsive and Getting the Job Done Right
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project Office (YMSCPO) has been given the responsibility for characterization of the potential repository...

Archaeological Program for the Yucca Mountain Site
Archaeological surveys, limited surface collections and selected test excavations in the Yucca Mountain Project Area have revealed four distinct aboriginal hunting and gathering adaptive...

Toward Linking Demographic and Economic Models for Impact Assessment
One of the objectives of the Yucca Mountain Project, in Southern Nevada, is to evaluate the effects of the development of a high-level nuclear waste repository. As described in the Section...

Building GIS Relationships Spatially and Politically
This paper advocates that the technological aspect of building a spatial GIS is not the critical factor for a successful multi-participant installation. Rather the political relationships...

Spreadsheet Model Development for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin
In the beginning, water resources personnel scratched out their estimates of how different reservoir operations or system configurations would affect a river using pencil and paper. Many...

Recent Studies on the Optimal Operation of Reservoir Systems in China
Many researchers and engineers have examined the problem of optimal operation of hydro-electric systems in order to exploit the potential of electric power generation. At the same time,...

Devil's Gate Multi-Use Project and Urban Water Resource
Not since Congress passed the 1902 Reclamation Act has there been an opportunity for a water resources project to make such an instrumental impact on the environment. Historically, damming...

The Engineer's Role in Wetland Enhancement, Restoration and Creation
Efforts are being made by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), to implement President Bush's...

Analysis of Water Banking Projects as Additions to the California State Water Project
The California State Department of Water Resources (DWR) is evaluating the feasibility of adding Water Banking programs to the State Water Project (SWP) to augment its delivery capability...

Your Role in the Model State Water Code Project
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Model State Water Code Project is very ambitious. The Task Committee (TC) to Establish a Model State Water Code and the Water Laws Committee...

Political and Institutional Constraints on Water Resources Studies
Urban water resource planning studies are conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the request of a local sponsor, frequently in order to address a specific problem. The public...

Texas Reservoir Projects: Permitting & Mitigation
Recent reservoir projects in Texas were reviewed on the basis of permitting and mitigation, and subsequent project costs. We document trends of increasing time to prepare and process permit...

 

 

 

 

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