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Foreword by Islam H. El-adaway, Ph.D.

Construction Contract Claims, Changes, and Dispute Resolution is the go-to handbook for those involved in the prevention, preparation, management, and resolution of claims and change orders on construction projects. ...

Sponsored by the Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Engineering Committee of the Environmental Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE

Sustainable Solid Waste Management describes basic principles and recent advances for ...

Starting, managing, and owning an engineering firm can be a daunting experience. Engineer to Entrepreneur: Success Strategies to Manage Your Career and Start Your Own Firm provides practical steps at key career points to reach professional goals in any ...

Sponsored by the Infrastructure Resilience Division of ASCE

During 2010 and 2011, a sequence of strong earthquakes affected two communities in the province of Canterbury on the South Island of New Zealand. Christchurch, which is the second largest city in ...

Sponsored by the Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Engineering Committee of the Environmental Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers

Green Technologies for Sustainable Water Management ...

Sponsored by the Committee on Evapotranspiration in Irrigation and Hydrology of the Irrigation and Drainage Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE

Evaporation, ...

Guidelines for Cloud Seeding to Augment Precipitation, Third Edition, supplies the practical details for implementing a cloud seeding project to enhance precipitation efficiency. This technology for atmospheric water management provides a cost-effective ...

Sponsored by the Pipelines Division of ASCE

Renewal of Potable Water Pipes provides a detailed resource on planning, design, and construction of trenchless rehabilitation technologies for pipelines ...

Water Engineering with the Spreadsheet: A Workbook for Water Resources Calculations Using Excel presents more than 90 problems, from easy to difficult, in the areas of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology, and stormwater management. The accompanying ...

Sponsored by the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE

On February 27, 2010, an earthquake off the coast of Chile registered a magnitude of 8.8, making it the largest in Chile since 1960. Between those two massive quakes, Chile enacted codes to improve ...

Water and water worship were integral to the spiritual life of the Inca. The Incamisana, an ancient water temple that is part of the royal estate at Ollantaytambo, is a hydraulic masterpiece that serves as historical evidence of the importance of water to ...

Prepared for the American Society of Civil Engineers by Economic Development Research Group, Inc.

Each report in the Failure to Act series provides an objective analysis of the economic implications for the United States of its continued underinvestment in ...

Sponsored by the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE

On May 20, 2013, the third violent tornado in 14 years tore through Moore, Oklahoma, creating a path of destruction through dense residential areas and damaging several critical facilities. Nearly 1,...

Sponsored by the Hazardous, Toxic, and Hazardous Waste Engineering Committee of the Environmental Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE

Nanomaterials in the Environment offers the most current knowledge on the environmental ...

If you find yourself doing the quick pocket pat-down known as the Engineer’s Check…

If you use a MathCAD analogy to explain the birds and the bees to your teenager…

If you are so steeped in structural parameters that you chortle over inappropriate variables…...

Sponsored by the Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Engineering Committee of the Environmental Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE

Forward Osmosis: Fundamentals and Applications presents the principles and implementation ...

Dave Elton has done it again!

Exploding soils… Retaining walls made of paper… Gravity-defying sand!

Grounded! Amazing Classroom Demonstrations in Soil Mechanics presents 35 serious but entertaining experiments that teach the fundamentals of soil mechanics ...

Prepared by the Publications Division of ASCE

The American Society of Civil Engineers supports a robust book-publishing program to provide in-depth information on a variety of topics of interest to civil engineers and allied professionals. Each year, 25 to ...

Sponsored by the Committee on Seismic Effects on Nonstructural Components of the Architectural Engineering Institute of ASCE

Façade Access Equipment provides structural engineering guidance regarding the design, evaluation, and testing of permanent ...

Sponsored by the Computing and Information Technology Division of ASCE

Building information modeling (BIM) has become a significant area of endeavor in the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industry. The models generated from ...