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America 2050 -- Coalition of Leading Civic/Business/Environmental Organizations and Transportation Officials -- issues blueprint for infrastructure investment
How'd you like to treat your street-lighting system as a control network rather than a collection of electrical circuits? The recent coming of age of specialized networking hardware and control software has made such an approach not only feasible, but also economical and relatively easy to install.
Letting contractors know upfront what their profit will be minimizes litigation and change orders.
No fuel emits zero pollutants, but natural gas is close.
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) combine information and communications technologies with vehicles and infrastructure to improve traffic routing and travel times, and trim fuel consumption.
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Anaheim Hills-based Bomel Construction completes 1,500-space parking structure for city of Irvine several weeks ahead of schedule.
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Fallout from free-wheeling financing hits government coffers with a double whammy. The false promise of easy money earns a berth on our fifth annual Trendsetters list.
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State regulators could start electronically sharing large volumes of water system compliance monitoring data with the US Environmental Protection Agency annually, under an agreement signed in October.
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The cost of shoring up old assets is just one of many challenges that have converged to create a perfect storm of financial stress for the public sector.
A town transforms school buses into mobile first-responder units.
A veteran of both gravity and vacuum sewer systems crunches the numbers.
Five ways to promote a rate increase (hint: think of yourself as a campaign-finance manager).
It's a hard lesson learned from an era of unprecedented growth in the housing market, when subdivisions were built faster than the infrastructure necessary to serve them. With traditional wastewater treatment plants facing restrictions on their total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), decentralized...
Two decades of experience allow a waste-to-energy facility to chart its own course on its expansion project.
A community pool complex uses variable-frequency drives to save thousands in annual energy costs.
Three years on, New Orleans still makes headlines for the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, which caused about $400 million in infrastructure damage. Yet 1,000 miles north, on the usually quiet banks of the Cedar River in the usually quiet city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, summer floods are racking up...
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I don't think I've laughed as hard as I did over the responses to the last edition of this newsletter, which asked "Would you hurt Bambi?"
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Washington offers new highway funding philosophy
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the right attachment increases productivitynic
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San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge may be one of the most recognizable in the world, but the following bridges have their own awe-inspiring features.
Precast concrete buildings stand above the alternatives in flood-prone areas.
For four decades, graffitists (also called taggers, depending on what they're creating and the motive behind it) have used infrastructure as the canvas for showcasing their talents. It's art, they say; but the public calls it vandalism, and charges public works with managing the cycle of removal...
It pays to partner with universities and herbicide manufacturers.
Using a geodatabase to accurately bill service connections.
How two county engineers decide when it's more cost-effective to do their own repairs.
Seventeen ways to minimize fuel use from the American Trucking Association.
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Your one-stop resource for news, articles, links and resources from the 2008 American Public Works Association International Congress and Exposition in New Orleans, LA. Check back every day of the show for new information, articles and links.
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