Nuclear Shutdown
The lengthy process of decommissioning—and in some cases dismantling—a commercial nuclear power plant is unlike any other project. The few plants that have been decommissioned are providing...
Environment: Revised Standard Will Shape Environmental Site Assessments
Impact of Scaling Rule on Simulating the Transport of DNAPLs
Due to the pollutants from lots of industry sewage and organic solvents, they arelow solubility in water and hard to decompose in nature, didn.t treated adequately, itwill cause the ground...
Marketing Your Web Site
Most companies in the engineering and construction industry have had their own Web sites for some time. But experts warn that generating traffic from potential clients, job seekers and...
Native American Imprint
Following a design phase of more than four years, construction has finally begun on the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, which will occupy...
Planning Applications Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment or an Avian Habitat in the Desert?
The debate of wetlands constructed for wastewater treatment or biological habitat continues. How a desert site is planned to meet both challenges is presented....
Taking Treatment to the Extremes
Designing a wastewater treatment facility that meets current environmental guidelines can be challenging enough. But designing it so it can be shipped, constructed, operated, and maintained...
Wastewater: Los Angeles Considers Injecting Biosolids beneath Harbor
Project Team Leadership
In the research lab, design office, fabricating shop, or on construction site, it is the project manager (PM) who must pull diverse talents and personalities into a project team. Depending...
Wastewater Trickling Filter Sinkhole Remediation with Limited Mobility Displacement Grouting
Use of Engineering Geophysics to Investigate a Site for a Bridge Foundation
Technology: Molecular Cage Traps Radioactive, Industrial Wastes for Cleanup
Wastewater: Toronto Brings Biosolids Recycling Program on Stream
A Constructed Wetland for Wastewater Treatment in the Coachella Valley, Indio, California
The Coachella Valley Wild Bird Center (CVWBC) proposed a wetland habitat site on 22 acres property in India, California, under lease from Valley Sanitary District. The District currently...
Optimization of the Operation Rules of Multipurpose Multireservoir Systems; New Approach
In recent years Iran is ranked 4th among countries having the highest number of dams under construction on her hydrosystems. This has called for...
Corebits: Peck Gala; Wallace Hayward Baker Award; President Clinton Names Geo-Institute President to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board; ASCE Philadelphia Section Sanctions Delaware Valley Geo-Institute (DVGI); GeoEng 2000, Melbourne, Australia, November 19-24, 2000; Research Fellowships Spring 2000; Call for Papers; AGI Poster Highlights Mineral Uses; Third Sowers Lecture Given by Prof. Dick Goodman; Opening of the Ralph B. Peck Library at Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
Sewage Storage Tunnel to Reduce Toronto Beach Closures
New Bern Bypass
To alleviate congestion and offer tourists easier access to their destinations, the North Carolina Department of Transportation decided to reroute U.S. Route 17 out of the historic town...
Environmental Technology Verification Report for Ammonia Recovery Process
Prepared by the Environmental Technology Evaluation Center (EvTEC), a CERF Service Center. This report describes the nature and scope of an environmental...
Safety in a Designer's Hands
Although contractors face safety issues every day, engineers and architects have traditionally not addressed construction site safety in project designs. But there are design practices...
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