A Value Chain Model to Support Business Process Reengineering in Turnkey Contracting Firm
This paper discusses important factors of BPR as it is related to the use of information technology in the E&C industry. It then presents an industry value chain model from the...
Database Use in the Engineering Office
Market Analysis of Marinas and Market Potentials in Asian Regions
Rebuilding the Former Soviet States: Perspectives on the Construction Market
The ex-Soviet republics' potential cannot be ignored, but history has placed formidable obstacles in the way of transforming their construction industries. The author, who...
Taking Environmental Tech to Market
The Future of the Past: Historic Preservation at the Metropolitan Washington Airports
The historic significance and unique architectural character of Washington National and Washington Dulles International Airports have presented the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority...
A Decision Support System for the Expansion of International Operations of A/E/C Firms
The changing trend of the construction industry will require A/E/C firms to consider expanding operations in the international construction market arena. This paper presents a conceptual...
Potential demand for passenger travel to orbit
In recent years the possibility of `space tourism', that is individual passenger travel to space on a commercial basis, has received increasing attention. The possibility of such an activity...
Expert Analysis in Regulated Irrigation Canal Modelling
Application of riverine unsteady-flow numerical modelling techniques to problems of flow regulation in irrigation canals invokes the need for careful treatment of some situations not commonly...
Materials for Tomorrow's Infrastructure
A Ten Year Plan for Deploying High Performance Construction Materials and Systems (Executive Report)
Prepared by the Civil Engineering Research Foundation. This executive report presents a high-level, policy-oriented summary of the High-Performance...
The Potomac Experience—A Forerunner of DPS
Thirty years ago, dramatic events were about to begin in Potomac River basin with the publication of a report of study recommending 16 major reservoirs and hundreds of small ones to solve...
Bellevue Smart Traveler: Phase 2
Traffic congestion in urban centers can be attributed to large numbers of workers traveling in single occupant vehicles to densely clustered downtown employment facilities. This project...
Coastal Non-Point Source Pollution Abatement: The Shipbuilding and Repair Industry
In cooperation with several shipbuilding and repair businesses and several state environmental regulatory agencies, site visits, waste-minimization assessments, and storm water sampling...
Bellevue Smart Traveler: Reducing SOV Commuting
The Bellevue Smart Traveler (BTS) research team is currently developing a prototype traveler information center (TIC) to serve a downtown office complex in Bellevue, Washington. The goal...
Long Range Planning for System Rehabilitation and Improvement
The Turlock Irrigation District, located in the Central Valley of California, supplies irrigation water to 150,000 acres and electricity to over 60,000 customers. The District's irrigation...
Managing Urban Growth an Irrigation District's Perspective
Urban growth within the Turlock Irrigation District has converted some property from agricultural to urban use. The District has established policies and developed documents and procedures...
AGWATER©
The AGWATER computer program is an interactive learning, teaching, and pre-season evaluation tool regarding agricultural irrigation. It combines the concepts of irrigation scheduling,...
Freight Movement in a Changing World and Changing Market Place
The main object of this paper revolves on the fact that for the foreseeable future, the bottom line of intermodal challenges for any North American container port is that business, trade,...
Managing Maintenance from a Business Viewpoint
Today's sophisticated maintenance management systems allow supervisors to plan, schedule, monitor and evaluate the maintenance function at a level and speed our predecessors heretofore...
Jacksonville's ASE Crosses the River
After over three years of operation, the Jacksonville (Florida) Automated Skyway Express (Skyway) downtown people mover system is expanding. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA),...
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