Years of Planning for the South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Project: Now It�s Time to Build! Rapidly but Gently!
When a complicated project is completed, and you ask the engineers, "What was the most challenging part of this project?" a couple of difficulties usually come to mind. We�ve all heard war stories from...
Subsurface Utility Engineering and Megaprojects: Avoiding Underground Conflicts Helps Speed Project Delivery
Experienced project owners realize that utility conflicts can be risky and pose unexpected impacts on the cost and delivery of projects, especially in urban settings. To help overcome these impacts, Subsurface...
Trenchless Goes Hybrid: Old Tricks Are Finding New Applications
The International Society for Trenchless Technology defines trenchless technology as "Underground construction methods of utility installation, rehabilitation, inspection, location and leak detection,...
Mapping, Coordination Streamline University's Utility System Upgrade
Model Aims to Help Utilities Gauge Public Attitudes toward Water Reuse
Public Utility Operators Care about Service
Public utility operators care about and strive to maintain infrastructure for the benefit of the public....
National Grid, an international electricity and natural gas utility that operates in the United Kingdom and owns the high-voltage transmission network in England and Wales, is experimenting with a new style of pylon to carry transmission lines�
Virginia Utility Aims to Eliminate Most Discharges to Surface Waters
Maryland Utility First In Nation to Use Zinc-Coated Iron Ductile Pipe With Special Wrapping
Applying Scanning Technology to Tunnel Inspections: Leveraging Technology to Reduce the Public Agita
A large number of transit and vehicular tunnels in the New York Metropolitan area were inundated by the tidal surge caused by Super Storm Sandy on October 29, 2012. The storm created major...
Utility Tests Ion Exchange Process to Comply with California's Chromium 6 Limit
Microtunneling Design Elements
The design elements and the process for a microtunneling project are generally the same as for other underground projects. Design elements include the following: General conditions; Special...
Instrumentation and Monitoring
A detailed plan for monitoring possible ground surface movements caused by the microtunneling operations should be prepared. The plan is typically prepared by the engineer in consultation...
Enhanced Detection and Mapping of Buried Utilities�A Sustainability Perspective
The social and environmental impacts and benefits of projects make up the triple bottom line that represents a modern view of sustainable project development. Rather than considering only...
Ground Freezing in a Congested Urban Area
Artificial ground freezing is a method of providing temporary earth support and ground water control for deep excavations and tunnels. The technique has been used for over 100 years in...
Water Utilities Recognizing and Adapting to a 2050 Climate
Maryland Utility Confronts Aging Distribution System
Accuracy Assessment of the National Geodetic Survey's OPUS-RS Utility
Colorado Utility Taps Dam for Drinking Water
NewsBriefs: Social Utility Site Will Benefit Design and Construction Industry
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