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This report compares the Canadian, European, and U.S. codes on aluminum in order to provide a basis for the preparation of a common specification document.

This report uses an international perspective to look at structural safety problems from basic concept to design and construction.

This collection contains 35 papers presented at the 2003 Airfield Pavement Specialty Conference, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, September 21-24, 2003.

This report addresses engineering requirements for lift-slab construction and presents recommendations to engineers, architects, and lift-slab contractors for its safe use.

This report presents the findings of a research study to improve the project management undertaken by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Ying-Kit Choi details the guidelines, principles, and philosophy needed to produce design documents for heavy civil engineering projects.

Craig Huntington describes the state of the art for the design of tensioned fabric structures, along with the fundamentals of design and construction that are needed by engineers, contractors, and architects.

Raymond Henn assembled comprehensive guidelines for the filling of voids for both soft ground and rock tunnels and shafts.

This collection contains 133 papers presented at the 2003 Construction Research Congress, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 19-21, 2003.

This report presents the significant findings of a building performance team that investigated the structural damage sustained by the Pentagon after an airplane was crashed into it on September 11, 2001.