Abstract: Because of the high traffic volumes during the normal workday on major urban transportation corridors, many construction operations are now being conducted during the nighttime. Nighttime work requirements have in turn ...

Abstract: Tilt-up concrete wall construction is an alternative to cast-in-place, precast, or masonry methods of constructing building walls. The process involves more than just a cast and lift operation. Detailed planning, preparation, ...

Abstract: The competitive and negotiated bidding processes are not new. Competitive or hard bidding has been and is currently more prevalent in the commercial construction industry. However, in the last 20 years, evolutionary changes ...

Abstract: Few contractors in the southwestern United States ever consider using a tower crane on their projects. This reluctance can be attributed to a mobile crane construction culture. A contractor in New Mexico, Bradbury Stamm, ...

Abstract: Dragline productin estimates, as derived from published tables, are compared to actual field production. Several equipment texts present dragline production estimating tables. The base data source for most of these tables ...

Abstract: The development of construction equipment has followed the major changes in global transportation. In 1420, Giovanni Fontana was dreaming of and diagramming dredging machines. Development of the steam shovel was driven by ...

Abstract: The parking garage at Phoenix's Sky Harbor terminal number four is being expanded by extending the structure over the roadways on each side of the main terminal building. To support the structure over the roadways there ...

Abstract: The West Dam of the Eastside Reservoir Project was constructed by a joint venture of the Guy F. Atkinson Company, Washington Construction (now Morrison-Knudsen Corporation) and the H. B. Zachry Company. As the excavation ...