ABSTRACT: A number of civil engineering projects which include river valley projects, transportation projects and metro rail projects are under construction in India. Various structures, such as underground openings, powerhouse caverns, metro tunnels, dam foundations and slopes are increasingly located in/on rock formations. The rock in its natural state is a very complex material especially wh...

This paper narrates the experience of a Canadian university in reorienting its mining curriculum towards the goal of producing engineers who are sensitive to context. The authors acknowledge industry’s historical association with environmental degradation and imperialism, but counter that mining is necessary to provide the materials of civil infrastructure, particularly that required to reduce ...

The Direction des archives de France has initiated and is financing Navimages, a free environment for preparing and publishing large collections of digitized images. Navimages comprises three independent modules: a collector, to identify and prepare images; the document base, for searching in descriptive data about the collections, data in either field based or in XML EAD; a viewer for easily b...

Culture has received increasing attention in critical development studies, though the notion that there are important cultural differences within and between development organizations has received less consideration. This paper elaborates elements of a framework for studying organizational culture in multi-agency development projects. It draws on selected writings in anthropology and in organiz...

Original scientific paper A new approach for measuring the performance of employees in construction companies is presented. Two different methods are proposed. For employees directly engaged on a project, performance is measured by using different Key Performance Indicators on four different organisation levels. For employees not directly engaged on a project, performance is measured by using R...

1. CUNY Environmental CrossRoads Initiative, Department of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA. 2. World Water and Climate Foundation, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 4A2, Canada. 3. Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan. 4. Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and...

MPIRICAL analysis demonstrates that the extent of civil liberties in a country affects the performance of a government’s investment projects. This finding contributes to accumulating evidence that the degree to which citizens’ “voices” in the public sphere are repressed or are allowed to be “heard” has an important influence on whether the accountability necessary for government efficacy will b...

PURPOSE This study examined federal and state civil money penalties and fines collected from nursing homes and how states used the collected funds. DESIGN AND METHODS We used a telephone survey of state officials, Freedom of Information Act requests, state Web site searches, and stakeholder interviews to describe the funds collected, the availability and the use of funds, public information a...

Civil engineering projects have greatly benefited from the mechanical excavation of hard rock technology. Mining industry, on the other hand, is still searching for major breakthroughs to mechanize and then automate the winning of ore and drivage of access tunnels in its metalliferrous sector. The aim of this study is to extend the scope of drag bits for roadheaders in hard rock cutting. Variou...

Wallace Ruddell Aykroyd (1899–1979) had an English father, whose business was in Ireland, and an Irish mother. He attended high school in England as a boarder and then joined the Royal Air Force. After the end of World War I he returned to Ireland for medical studies at Trinity College, Dublin (1,2). In 1924 he graduated as Bachelor of Medicine and also received the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for ...