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Environmental Regulations Reconsidered : Identifying Incentives and Barriers to Environmental Performance

Creator:: Craig, Kathleen D.
Abstract:: Attention has been drawn to the observation that environmental benefits under the current regulatory approaches are diminishing with respect to increased pollution control costs. Regulators have begun to appreciate that while environmental gains can still be achieved under the current command and control system, the most significant environmental gains have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: environmental regulations This is estimated to increase to $170-185 billion by the turn of the century (US

Evaluating the Feasibility of Mass Timber as a Mainstream Building Material in the US Construction Market: Industry Perception, Cost Competitiveness, and Environmental Performance Analysis

Creator:: Ahmed, Shafayet
Abstract:: Mass timber has been considered as a promising building material because of its structural rigidity, environmental sustainability, and renewability nature. In Europe and Australia, mass timber materials have been used for many different types of construction such as residential, commercial, education, and industrial. However, the construction practitioners in the U.S....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the Feasibility of Mass Timber as a Mainstream Building Material in the US Construction Market

The review of PPP toll roads in the US and the simulation of the Chicago Skyway

Creator:: Xu, Wei
Abstract:: As the traffic demand increases at a faster rate than the upgrade and maintenance of transportation facilities through the traditional public financing methods in the United States, the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is becoming an important supplement to the public transportation infrastructure investment. There are already several existing PPP toll road...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: on August 18, 2008. Title: The Review of PPP Toll Roads in the US and the Simulation of the

Direction, method, and model for implementing design for construction worker safety in the US

Creator:: Tymvios, Nicholas
Abstract:: The construction industry employs about 7% of the total US workforce, and yet it accounts for 15.7% of all occupational fatalities. Specifically in 2011, there were 721 deaths in construction, second only to transportation with 733. The cause of a large number of these construction deaths can be attributed to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: for Construction Worker Safety in the US

Seismic protection of flexible rotating machines using base isolators

Creator:: Su, Wen-Chyi
Abstract:: Base isolation is an alternative seismic design strategy in which the primary structures and their internal components are uncoupled from the potentially damaging horizontal components of an earthquake by base isolators which attenuate the transmission of horizontal acceleration into the system. Rotating machines are among the key internal components of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Seismic protection of flexible rotating machines using base

Effects of an industrial fire on a community of south Phoenix, Arizona

Creator:: Degher, Alexandra B.
Abstract:: On August 31, 1992, Quality Printing Circuits, a circuit board manufacturing plant in Phoenix, Arizona, burned to the ground. The fire lasted approximately eight hours, creating a thick, black smoke that blew into the surrounding community. Emergency evacuation was erratic and since no air samples were taken during the fire,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: continued to report health problems and five years after the fire, the US Environmental Protection Agency

Uranium and technetium bio-immobilization in intermediate-scale permeable reactive scale barriers

Creator:: Sapp, Mandy M.
Abstract:: Groundwater at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Field Research Center (FRC) is contaminated with U(VI) and Tc(VII), has pH values as low as 3.3, and nitrate concentrations as high as 120 mM. The objective of this research was to determine if in-situ bio-immobilization is a viable treatment alternative for this water....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ingested (4, 5, 53). Therefore the Environmental Protection Agency has designated Maximum Contaminant

Evaluation of water damage on asphalt concrete mixtures using the environmental conditioning system

Creator:: Al-Joaib, Ali Abdulla
Abstract:: Asphalt concrete pavement is subjected to several damaging actions from traffic loads, water (from precipitation and/or groundwater sources), and temperature. The durability of the asphalt-aggregate mixture, its ability to withstand these damaging actions for long periods, is a very important engineering property. While the durability of the asphalt-aggregates mixture depends...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the environmental conditioning system AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Abdul la Ali Al-Joaib for the

A model for simulation of subsurface transport of highway-related water quality constituents

Creator:: Hesse, Edwin Todd
Abstract:: A spreadsheet-based transport model was developed in Microsoft Excel™ as part of a six-year National Cooperative Highway Research Program project conducted at Oregon State University. The model simulated the leaching, transport, removal, and retardation processes that occur in the surface and subsurface pathways of the near highway environment. For all...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , & Environmental Engineering Dean of the Grahufe School I understand that my thesis will become part of the

Assessment of Environmental Impacts of Wood Substitution in Commercial Construction

Creator:: Milaj, Kristina
Abstract:: In the residential sector, wood is the predominant construction material. In the commercial sector and in mid‐rise construction, the use of wood is limited because of a multitude of reasons, including building code restrictions, the perception of wood as a structural material, fire code requirements, and lack of knowledge and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Title: Assessment of Environmental Impacts of Wood Substitution in Commercial Construction. Abstract

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Environmental Regulations Reconsidered : Identifying Incentives and Barriers to Environmental Performance

Evaluating the Feasibility of Mass Timber as a Mainstream Building Material in the US Construction Market: Industry Perception, Cost Competitiveness, and Environmental Performance Analysis

The review of PPP toll roads in the US and the simulation of the Chicago Skyway

Direction, method, and model for implementing design for construction worker safety in the US

Seismic protection of flexible rotating machines using base isolators

Effects of an industrial fire on a community of south Phoenix, Arizona

Uranium and technetium bio-immobilization in intermediate-scale permeable reactive scale barriers

Evaluation of water damage on asphalt concrete mixtures using the environmental conditioning system

A model for simulation of subsurface transport of highway-related water quality constituents

Assessment of Environmental Impacts of Wood Substitution in Commercial Construction

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