Truckers Get More Mileage From Treads That Age Gracefully - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
There’s no funny story or eureka moment to explain how Michelin engineers molded the world’s first “regenerating” truck tire. The France-based manufacturer just points to several ye
Publication Date: 05 September, 2007
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Oil Study Pushes Investment In Infrastructure, Technology - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The National Petroleum Council July 18 approved a new oil industry study that calls for more investment in energy infrastructure and technology as well as in alternatives to conventional crude oil and gas
Publication Date: 19 July , 2007
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E-Construction Hampered By Inability To Share 3-D Models - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Boosters of collaborative, virtual design and construction at the American Institute of Steel Construction Inc. are seriously concerned that the industry is focusing too much on building information modeli
Publication Date: 25 April , 2007
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Lateral Soil Displacement Gains Ground on U.S. Projects - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A low-impact, low-cost composite ground improvement system developed in France is now taking hold in the U.S. Controlled Modulus Columns densify and reinforce soft ground without causing vibration or gener
Publication Date: 19 March , 2007
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Stanford's Teicholz Takes Home Turner Prize - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Building information modeling technology still has a long way to go to truly integrate the building team, says Paul Teicholz, professor emeritus at Stanford University and the man many credit as the father
Publication Date: 06 February , 2007
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Cost Savings, Sustainability Seen in Fiber Reinforcement - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Concrete has stayed gray on the outside for years, but scientists now are seeing green on the inside.
Publication Date: 27 January , 2007
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Missing Fasteners, Lost in Space - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Astronauts attaching an equipment-stuffed, 17.5-ton truss carrying solar panels and other gear onto the International Space Station orbiting about 220 miles above the earth, are staying on schedule with ma
Publication Date: 14 September, 2006
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Corps of Engineers Floats - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hosting four regional forums to poll the industry on a plan to develop template designs for 41 building facility types for the six major areas across the country as defi
Publication Date: 08 August , 2006
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Restored Parachute Jump - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
After a seven-year effort to restore and illuminate Coney Island's historic Parachute Jump, the landmark is now a beacon in the Brooklyn skyline simultaneously representing a bygone era and the area's futu
Publication Date: 02 August , 2006
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Autodesk Boosts Collaboration Market Share With Buyout of Constructware
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Two project collaboration powers are joining forces.
Publication Date: 09 February , 2006
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Online Equipment Auctions Are Becoming Nearly Mainstream
Online construction equipment auctions are becoming so mainstream that the dealers who used to think of them as competitors now are getting into the online auction business themselves. The Associated Equip
Publication Date: 28 March , 2005
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Structures Needing Strength Get a Stiff Belt from Hardwire
The material, called Hardwire, comes in various configurations, but all resemble duct tape in being thin and shipped on a spool. All are composed of ultrahigh-tensile-strength twisted steel cords. It is the same steel-belt technology used in rad
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Publication Date: 30 August , 2004
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Airfield Work Achieves Mach Speed in Pilot Demonstration
Two dozen combat engineers arrive on a remote, abandoned airfield at midnight. They are equipped with night-vision goggles, a couple of laptops, satellite communications gear and a few pieces of earthmovin
Publication Date: 26 July , 2004
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Venerable Technology Event Returns for Another Season
The faltering granddaddy of construction information technology shows, A/E/C Systems, revived Feb. 17-19 in Orlando, Fla., under new ownership with a familiar, if reduced, cast of characters.
Publication Date: 01 March , 2004
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Publication Date: 23 February , 2004
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Software Flags Safety Measures
One of the five standards most often cited for violations by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration across all industry sectors is one to protect workers from injuries when supposedly id
Publication Date: 13 October , 2003
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Earthquake Damage Evaluation Guide
The Applied Technology Council, a nonprofit organization advancing engineering applications for natural hazard mitigation, has produced a CD-ROM to aid training for assessing earthquake damage to buildings
Publication Date: 17 February , 2003
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Rebar Inspection Tutorial On CD
A CD-ROM has come out that provides a detailed video tutorial for learning about inspecting installations of concrete reinforcing bars.
Publication Date: 17 February , 2003
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Rubble Microphones Work Very Well
Researchers at Penn State University say analysis of data collected during search and rescue efforts at the World Trade Center disaster site show that microphones lowered or thrown into collapsed building
Publication Date: 10 February , 2003
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Space Station Schedule In Doubt With Shuttle Grounding
The loss of space shuttle Columbia Feb. 1 and the subsequent grounding of the shuttle fleet clouds the future of the nation's highest altitude construction site, the International Space Station orbiting 24
Publication Date: 10 February , 2003
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Big Dipper Galvanizes Massive Steel Parts for Ohio Bridge Job
A Kansas plant with a 50-ton lift galvanized the heaviest piece that it and quite possibly anyone has ever done, when it dipped a 42-ton steel component for a cable-stayed bridge into an 835° bath of
Publication Date: 20 January , 2003
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UK Contractors Install Composite Highway Bridge near Oxford
Bridge construction passed a significant milestone with the installation of Europe's first plastic span built for a highway, according to the designer. Bridges of polymer reinforced with glass and carbon f
Publication Date: 14 October , 2002
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Sensors Propel Automation Advances
The barriers to automation and robotics on construction sites are falling, in part because rapid advances in sensing and processing technologies are improving control, says the president of an internationa
Publication Date: 07 October , 2002
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How Safe is Your Sewerage?
"The product, VSAT, or "Vulnerability Self Assessment Tool," has been created with help and $500,000 funding from the federal Environmental Protection Agency by the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies. AMSA promotes sou
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Publication Date: 15 July , 2002
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Punch List Is First Punch For Company
One of its products is a stand-alone punch-list tool that can integrate wirelessly with SQL databases for continuous 2-way synchronization. Pocket Punch 1.5, for Windows CE handheld devices, organizes items by the Construction Specifications In
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Publication Date: 15 July , 2002
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Putting It All Together
RAM International, Carlsbad, Calif., released RAM Connection June 13. It is designed for engineers working with the company's structural design product, RAM Advanse, who want to design their own connections or who want a tool for shop drawing r
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Publication Date: 01 July , 2002
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Water Treatment System Operators Turn to High-tech Tools to Harden Security
As the nation's utilities scramble to complete federally mandated vulnerability assessments to water and wastewater plants and utilities, system opera
Publication Date: 18 June , 2002
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Listening For Trouble
Researchers in Texas are cranking up an elaborate array of acoustic sensors on a cable-stayed bridge to "listen" for the sounds of hidden damage as it occurs.
Publication Date: 20 May , 2002
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'X-Ray Vision' Sees All
A new system developed in the UK lets workers scan a site through a video imager and "see" pipelines and underground utilities superimposed on real-time pictures of the terrain.
Publication Date: 25 March , 2002
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