Ronald L. Ingram v. Salt Lake City, a municipal corporation, and Oakland Construction Company : Brief of Appellant

APPEAL FROM AN ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT SALT LAKE CITY AND AGAINST PLAINTIFF, IN THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH The Honorable Homer F. Wilkinson, Presidin

Public Works Standards & Specifications

The goal and intention of this publication is for cities to have guidelines of some of the standards and specifications on construction projects. Readers should be careful in their adoption and use as these guidelines are not all-inclusive of the standards and specifications which may be necessary in a specific local community situation. It is recommended that all public works projects be developed, designed and constructed under the direction of a registered professional engineer

Brigham City v. Mantua Town : Brief of Appellant

Appeal from Judgment and Decree entered in the First District Court in and for Box Elder County, Utah, Honorable Omer J. Call, District Judg

Implementing GIS for Facilities Management at the California Institute of Technology

Most of the time managing facilities involve storing, querying, and updating spatial data. GIS is a perfect tool for building a database. The Facilities Department at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) needed a method for more effective and efficient management of their facilities. Their map was not georeferenced nor interactive and did not have sufficient metadata. Their most current CAD files lacked accuracy. For any project, the Facilities Department faced many problems, including time spent searching for information, organizing data, difficulties finding accurate location of facilities, duplication of work, and difficulties in adding and updating data. Therefore, the project objective was to move CAD files to GIS. This involved georeferencing CAD files, converting CAD data to geodatabase feature classes, geodatabase design, and base map creation and design. These tasks were useful in assigning geographic coordinates to spatial data, providing better management of data, base map creation and design, and accuracy enhancement of CAD features. This project provided a basic understanding of how to work with CAD files in GIS, and outlined procedures and methodologies for geodatabase design and creating a base map for the facilities from CAD data

An Outline to a Manual on Managing and Administering Alaska Municipal Public Works and State of Alaska DOT&PF Highway Projects

The design phase and construction phase for public works and civil transportation projects over the last century have become extensively specialized. Consequently, design guides and construction manual literature accessible to project managers, design engineers, and construction engineers has become more comprehensive and increasingly detailed, and additional specialized skill sets are now required to manage and administer heavy civil projects. Gaps exist in the available civil engineering literature and no guide or manual that follows the overall life of a public works or civil transportation project through the complete project lifecycle has been developed by an independent author, a local municipal government, or by a state department of transportation. This project developed an outline to a comprehensive civil engineering manual for managing and administering Alaska municipal public works and State of Alaska DOT&PF highway projects. The outline has brought together necessary elements of design engineering, construction contract administration, construction inspection, materials testing and special inspections, and project management. The manual outline was progressively elaborated in conjunction with several research phases that occurred throughout a four-year period. Literature review of published resources specific to Alaska was followed by interviews with design/construction engineers and project managers (SMEs) from several state departments of transportation

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes (August 16, 1982)

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on August 16, 1982

Intensive Archeological Survey Of Fort Richardson State Park And Historic Site

On March 28 and 29, 2018, aci consulting conducted a cultural resources survey of the Fort Richardson State Park and Historic Site in Jack County, Texas for the proposed wastewater system and lift stations. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) proposes to replace a 50-year old wastewater system, water distribution system, and main lift station with a modernized and efficient system. The Area of Potential Effect (APE) for the Fort Richardson State Park and Historic Site (FRSPHS) project is the water and wastewater replacement system which is approximately 1.49 miles in length with a 20-foot buffer, resulting in approximately 3.6 acres (1.46 hectares). The proposed project includes two proposed lift stations, the replacement of nine manholes, four new manholes, approximately eighteen trunk lines for waste water that emerge from the main waste water line to serve various campsites, and two equipment storage areas. The survey was conducted entirely within the Fort Richardson National Historic Landmark and within the boundary of previously recorded site 41JA2, which is the historic U.S. Army Post. An area for a proposed new lift station near the site buildings was scraped and metal detected. This work was conducted in compliance with Texas Administrative Code (13 TAC 26) under Texas Antiquities Code permit number 8362, as well as Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. The survey did not result in the location of any new archeological sites, historic structures, or additional historic properties. Based on these results, no further archeological work is recommended. However, a monitoring plan is included which outlines specific recommendations. Records from this investigation will be curated at the TPWD Laboratory. Julie Shipp served as Principal Investigator, Brandy Harris as Project Historian, Katie Canavan as Lab Director, and Douglas Shaver as Geophysical expert

Reducing human effort in engineering drawing validation.

Oil & Gas facilities are extremely huge and have complex industrial structures that are documented using thousands of printed sheets. During the last years, it has been a tendency to migrate these paper sheets towards a digital environment, with the final end of regenerating the original computer-aided design (CAD) projects which are useful to visualise and analyse these facilities through diverse computer applications. Usually, this was done manually by re-sketching each page using CAD applications. Nevertheless, some applications have appeared which generate the CAD document automatically given the paper sheets. In this last case, the final document is always verified by an engineer due to the need of being a zero-error process. Since the need of an engineer is absolutely accepted, we present a new method to reduce the required engineer working time. This is done by highlighting the digitised components in the CAD document that the automatic method could have incorrectly identified. Thus, the engineer is required only to look at these components. The experimental section shows our method achieves a reduction of approximately 40% of the human effort keeping a zero-error process

Heuristics-based detection to improve text/graphics segmentation in complex engineering drawings.

The demand for digitisation of complex engineering drawings becomes increasingly important for the industry given the pressure to improve the efficiency and time effectiveness of operational processes. There have been numerous attempts to solve this problem, either by proposing a general form of document interpretation or by establishing an application dependant framework. Moreover, text/graphics segmentation has been presented as a particular form of addressing document digitisation problem, with the main aim of splitting text and graphics into different layers. Given the challenging characteristics of complex engineering drawings, this paper presents a novel sequential heuristics-based methodology which is aimed at localising and detecting the most representative symbols of the drawing. This implementation enables the subsequent application of a text/graphics segmentation method in a more effective form. The experimental framework is composed of two parts: first we show the performance of the symbol detection system and then we present an evaluation of three different state of the art text/graphic segmentation techniques to find text on the remaining image