Book Review: Building Down Barriers: A Guide to Construction Best Practice by Clive Thomas Cain. New York City: Spon Press, 2003

Book Review: Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building Construction by Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 2004

Book Review: Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs. New York: Random House, 2004

Book Review: Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities by Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson. Boca Raton, Florida: Island Press, 2004

Book Review: Design of Marine Facilities for the Berthing, Mooring, and Repair of Vessels by John W. Gaythwaite. Reston, Virginia: ASCE Press, 2004

Book Review: The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development; Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building Construction; Neville on Concrete: An Examination of Issues in Concrete Practice; and Giant telescopes: Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of Technology

Outdoor Human Comfort and Its Assessment
Prepared by the Task Committee on Outdoor Human Comfort of the Aerodynamics Committee of ASCE. This report describes state-of-the-art methods for assessing...

Structural Expression in Wind Sensitive Structures
Architectural details can impact both the local cladding pressures on a structure as well as the overall structural response. Figure 1 shows a pair of roof corner vortices on the upper...

Water Treatment Plant Design
Let a team of water treatment plant design experts . with contributions from more than 30 international authorities -- give you comprehensive guidance on modernizing existing water treatment...

The Benefits of Virtual Building Tools
Several short case studies illustrate how virtual building tools enable designers, builders, and owners to test any aspect of a project's design, organization, and schedule...

A Realistic Vision for the Future of IT in Civil Engineering and a Plan for Achieving It
In October 2001, a group of experts from the capital projects industry met in San Antonio, Texas to begin development of a comprehensive technology research and development (R&D)...

Book Review: Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture, Engineering, and Environment by Dean Hawkins and Wayne Foster. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002

Book Reviw: Advanced Traveler Information Systems by Bob McQueen, Rick Schuman, and Kan Chen. Boston: Artech House Publishers, 2002

Book Review: Fundamentals of Intelligent Transportation Systems Planning by Mashrur A. Chowdhury and Adel Sadek. Boston: Artech House Publishers, 2003

Book Review: Ideas That Shaped Buildings by Fil Hearn. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003

Me, Myself and Infrastructure
Private Lives and Public Works in America
Companion guide to the ASCE 150th Anniversary museum exhibit. This book is a consumer's-eye view of infrastructure—the technological networks...

Recent Advances in Optimal Structural Design
Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Structural Design of the Technical Administrative Committee on Analysis and Computation of the Technical Activities Division of the Structural Engineering...

Book Review: Introduction to Transportation Systems by Joseph Sussman. Boston: Artech House, 2000

Book Review: Design-Build Subsurface Projects edited by Gary S. Brierley and David J. Hatem: Phoenix: Zeni House Publishing, 2002

Developing Your Team: Managerial Keys to Help Junior Staff Members Advance Their Careers
This chapter provides a guide for managers in helping junior staff advance their careers, including an overview of the simple steps the manager can take that will benefit the new engineer,...

 

 

 

 

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