Court Decisions: Nonconforming Use Permitted If Building Antedates Regulations
Linking Past and Future
A superhighways spanning all of northern Greece - linking the port city of Igoumenitsa in the west to Turkey in the east - elevates an ancient trade route to modern design standards. Staggering...
ASCE Seeks Public Opinion on Standards, Proposed Revisions to Code
Change in Environmental Standard Will Not Work
ASCE Official Register 2005
The OFFICIAL REGISTER is published annually to provide ready access to governing documents, statistics, and general information about ASCE for leadership, members, and staff. It includes...
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...
Design of Isolated Structures
This chapter examines the design of isolated structures. Topics include governing design codes; design of isolated buildings; design of isolated bridges and viaducts; and issues related...
County Buildings Subject to Subject to City's Building Regulations
Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites for Construction—State-of-the-Art Review
A concise state-of-the-art survey of fiber-reinforced polymer (also known as fiber-reinforced plastic) composites for construction applications in civil engineering is presented. The paper...
Assessment of Water Quality Monitoring Sites by an Optimization Method
Allocation of sampling sites is the initial and the most crucial step of the water quality monitoring network design and redesign process. Several different approaches have been used within...
Overall EWRI/ASCE Standards Process
The American Society of Civil Engineers is an ANSI-accredited standards development organization (SDO) and as such develops consensus-based standards in a wide-range of technical areas...
NewsBriefs: New York City Could Adopt International Building Code (International Code Council)
NewsBriefs: Homeland Security Panel Formed (American National Standards Institute)
NewsBriefs: ASTM Develops New Standard for Facades (Conover & Company Communications, Inc.)
Examples
In this chapter, twelve examples illustrate how wind loads are determined using the simplified and analytical procedures described in ASCE 7-02. These examples provide guidance to the...
Frequently Asked Questions
This chapter addresses questions frequently asked regarding the ASCE 7 standard....
Suggested Guidelines for Performance-Based Tests
Although several standard tests are cited in this chapter, these tests are not designed specifically for fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) overhead line structures. There are, in fact, no...
Saving the Bay
By reducing the level of nutrients in their discharges, wastewater treatment plants within the Chesapeak Bay's vast watershed are putting much less environmental pressure...
Environmental Studies: Federal Standards Needed for Coal Waste Basins
Technology: Finnish Group Forms Linux-Based Open Standard for `Smart' Building Systems
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