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How to choose the right pump for the job.
A step-by-step process for calculating return on investment.
Maintain flow capacity and reduce maintenance with the proper application.
Prioritizing and paying for for a comprehensive repair program.
Choosing a tarping system from an almost limitless number of potential combinations.
Using prefabricated wood, steel, and concrete to speed bridge construction.
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Geodatabase helps city secure $100 million in federal disaster aid.
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Reliant Energy is converting 10 Toyota Prius gasoline-electric hybrids to plug-in electric and installing 10 recharging stations, most of which are available to the public, throughout Houston.
Road managers in Amish country battle wear and tear made by a much older generation of four-wheeled vehicles.
One Ohio city joins the green movement by recycling its asphalt streets in-house.
How bringing in funding-program specialists helped New Orleans afford to rebuild.
How invert emulsion works.
Using advanced field monitors and software to track billboard code compliance.
A drought-stricken water supplier ensures the flow will continue.
Dodge introduces heavy-duty pickup trucks.
Why you should consider applying incident-command methods to winter operations.
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Although building information modeling (BIM) is a powerful tool on any project, contractors particularly like the ability to include nonstructural elements and further expand what the model can facilitate.
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The stimulus package is a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't proposition,
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Personalization is functional as well as fun.
Located in southeast Georgia between the Okefenokee Swamp and the St. Marys River, the city of Folkston has been blessed — and stressed — with residential and commercial growth over the last two decades.
Located just across the Columbia River from Portland, Ore., historic Clark County attracts visitors who enjoy open spaces. But there are some visitors for whom the county would rather not play host: knapweed, poison hemlock, and butterfly bush, to name just a few.
Imagine how much your operations and maintenance efficiency would improve if you had an owner's manual for each facility.
A 2003 physical survey of the Oklahoma City section of Interstate 44 proved to the Oklahoma DOT (ODOT) that the road was in desperate need of repair.
Each spring, large quantities of dissolved nutrients (such as nitrogen and phosphorous) are transported from the upper Midwest into what is called the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone — an oxygen-deficient area that grows to approximately 8,000 square miles each year and cannot support marine life.
A reader wrote to tell me that the safety lighting on his dump truck bodies was flickering.
Tucked in the back parking lot of a Maryland State Highway Administration maintenance facility, this 60-foot Potomac Wind Energy turbine generates an average of 700 kW hours of energy each month.
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Tucson, Ariz., is getting an infrastructure facelift under a plan to upgrade and replace two aging treatment plants.
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The American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA), Skokie, Ill., announced the winners of its 20th Annual Excellence in Concrete Pavement Awards — recognizing the engineers, contractors, and project owners whose expertise have produced high-quality pavement for streets, roads, highways, and...
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Success in stimulus spending is measured primarily by more jobs and less fraud. But while easily quantifiable, these criteria don't help recipients show taxpayers the long-term benefits of their $787-billion investment.
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Only the National Endowment for the Arts - which received a paltry $50 million - is ahead of the EPA in allocating its stimulus allotment.
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In each of the last four Novembers, we've asked our faithful readers to (anonymously) share budget projections for the coming year.
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Energy-efficiency retrofits pay off even for mature facilities.
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Folks on the coasts like to sneer at the Midwest, but I should know better. I've lived in Illinois all my life. (And, no, I'm not going to reveal how many years that's been!)
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Energy costs are less of a worry for operators of wastewater pump stations - along with clogs caused by modern trash, plastics, diapers and other large debris - thanks to a new pump from ITT Corporation, a global leader in the movement and treatment of water and wastewater.
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Furthering his commitment to protecting the environment and the economy, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he has signed legislation that will reduce California
Next to the Mississippi River delta in the Gulf of Mexico, no other river basin in North America struggles with excess nutrients more than the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The 64,000-square-mile estuary is the nation's largest, encompassing parts of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia...
Futuristic architecture focused on the environment is driving development of the following emerging communities.
One Florida utility department upgrades its data collection from old-fashioned maps to state-of-the-art technology.
An audit of one city's water and sewer billing systems cleans up a messy accounting process.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has infused $680 million into roads since it was enacted. Despite critics who charge that it provides little more than a loose patchwork of quick fixes, it is working: More than 2,000 projects are under way in 47 states.
Transit agency tests nature's ability to power a train turnaround.
New safety regulations call for shorter stopping distances.
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KFC pays for pothole patching.
PVC rods prolong the life of sidewalks in one Missouri city.
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For nearly 50 years, the American Public Works Association has been rewarding excellence and dedication in public service by naming the industry's "Top Ten Leaders of the Year" during National Public Works Week.
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A cross-country tour uncovers best practices for snow and ice removal operations.
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A new generation is entering the workforce, and some say their work philosophy differs vastly from previous generations. Who should adapt to whom?
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Last year, public works draped the 40-foot Christmas tree in downtown Webster, Mass., with strand upon strand of LED lights that Director Michael Suprenant estimates used one-fifth the electricity of the old incandescent bulbs.
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Proposed leadership in energy and environmental design certification may transform neighborhood design and construction.
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Early on, medial experts thought the H1N1 virus that's killed almost 1,500 people worldwide originated in Wisconsin.
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In 2008 the City of McKinney, Texas-renown for its efforts to create a sustainable community, including the first privately developed LEED Platinum office building in the country and a Wal-Mart that uses photovoltaic arrays, rainwater harvesting, a waste-oil heating system, and two wind...
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Both client and consultant know that the method for contracting professional services is broken, but only the client pays the price.
Is wireless the next step for your meter-reading operation?
Configuring a sign-placement plan that commands respect.
County and waste hauler join forces to turn sludge into alternative-energy source.
Sustainability and stimulus spark renewed interest in old industrial property.
Backlog prompts county engineers to switch project delivery methods.
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New plasma discharge technology cleans, disinfects, and renovates wells.
Calculating the costs of manual vs. mechanized material-moving.
Oregon DOT solves mobility challenge with bridge-jacking.
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Stimulus package tests patience and numbers-crunching skills.
A data manager explains why experience trumps cheap labor during asset inventories.