Learning from Disaster
After each earthquake, civil engineers learn more about what can be done to minimize the damage to infrastructure from seismic events. The recent large earthquakes that struck Izmit, Turkey,...
Summary of Evaluation Findings for the Testing of Ice Ban
Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center, a CERF Service Center. This report describes a HITEC laboratory and field evaluation...
Topographic Surveying
Technical Engineering and Design Guides, as adapted from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 29 This manual includes the new electronic surveying...
Defying Gravity
Vacuum sewers, a technology once used only in areas unsuitable for standard gravity sewer systems, are coming into mainstream use in highly developed areas as reliability improves and...
Framing a Work of Art
One of the most visually unique building designs of the twentieth century, the Guggenheim Museum project in Bilbao, Spain, required an innovative structural engineering solution and pioneering...
California and the World Ocean '97
Ocean Resources: An Agenda for the Future
The conference, California and the World Ocean '97 (CWO '97), was organized by the Coastal Zone Foundation and Resources Agency of California. CWO '97...
Ports '98
This proceedings,
Building Knowledge (Available only in Structural Engineering Special Issue)
The Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (ITLL) at the University of Colorado provides hands-on engineering lessons for students. Electrical, HVAC, structural, illumination, and...
Light Rail as Planned
The Mission Valley West project, an extension of the San Diego Trolley, runs 6.1 miles between Qualcomm Stadium and the Old Town District. Conceived by the Metropolitan Transit Development...
Urban Runoff Quality Management
This manual comprises a holistic view of urban runoff quality management. For the beginner, who has little previous exposure to urban runoff quality management, the manual covers the entire...
Introduction to Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems in Civil Engineering
This introductory book presents procedures for the analysis of signals and the characterization of systems in civil engineering. The two main topics of this book are at the core of several...
Federal Triangle Finale
At 3.1 million sq ft, the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center is the second largest U.S. federal building ever constructed; only the Pentagon is larger. After more than...
Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation
This volume,
Automated People Movers VI
Creative Access for Major Activity Centers
The Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Automated People Movers (APMs) in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 9-12, 1997, includes 75 papers. Papers provide an introduction to APMs,...
Construction Robots
The Search for New Building Technology in Japan
This book presents Japan's achievements in the development and application of over 100 construction robots and five automated systems. The Japanese have progressed far beyond...
Automatic Savings
Long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) costs of environmental remediation systems often dwarf engineering and remedial construction costs, but they don's have...
Riding the Technology Wave
Computer hardware and software is getting faster, more powerful and more affordable. At the same time, the way in which engineers use the equipment is varying. Identifying costs and benefits...
Solid Footing (available in Geoenvironmental Special Issue only)
The new $500 million Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in San Bernardino, Calif., sits near two fault lines. The importance of the facility and the sensitivity of the area made seismic...
Transportation, Land Use, and Air Quality
Making the Connection
This proceedings contains papers presented at a specialty conference entitled
The San Francisco Connection
An underground switchyard and storage facility for San Francisco's Municipal Railway challenged the limits of both cut-and-cover and tunneling in loose soil. The project was...
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