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Highway Construction and Environmental Effects

In twelve pages this paper discusses how highway construction and design decisions are influenced by various environmental factors...

Environmental Impact of Highway Construction

In eighteen pages this paper examines the environmental damage caused by the construction of highways in a consideration of threat...

Highway Use Taxes and Trucking Companies

20 cents per mile (American Trucking Association, 2002). This is clearly double taxation because truckers already pay highway usag...

Environmental Risk Management In the Construction Industry and the Role of the Project Manager

in 2005. Prior to this only 10% of electrical waste was recycled, this legislation makes manufacturers responsible of goods throug...

Environmental Destruction and 'Progress'

if such developments include parks and trails, there is definitely an increase in pollution and other potentially hazardous enviro...

Functional Intent of Hydroelectric Dams

In eight pages this paper discusses the environmental effects and functions of dams with a consideration of statistics, constructi...

Media and Chicago's Highway Construction During the 1950s

This paper examines the media's portrayal of Chigago's highway construction and other industrial projects during the 1950s. This ...

Stop H-3 Ass’n., et al v. Coleman

historic site by the State Historic Preservation officer and the rock is considered sacred in the traditional Hawaiian belief syst...

Environmental Risk Management

Environmental risk management is becoming in recent important within a commercial environment. This 14 page paper looks at a numbe...

Tomson Highway's Novel Kiss of the Fur Queen

of the school" are clear presentations of this perspective. Another powerful element in the story, and one that is mentioned onl...

Macomb County, Michigan - The Effects of Urban Sprawl

This 20 page paper considers some of the effects of urban sprawl on a Detroit suburban area. The writer considers the effect from ...

Environmental Degradation and Big Business

with all of its audiences, starting with employees" (Bovet 30). One of the worst situations to come from the boom of big business...

Commissioning a Health Care Facility

few points of the requirements of HVAC design and execution in the new health care facility, but they demonstrate the complexity i...

SWOT Analysis of a Construction Site's Hazardous Working Conditions

project, with each employee being run through the rules, tested for their knowledge of the rules and demonstrating the correct and...

Saudi Arabia, Ergonomics, and Human Factors

In five pages this paper considers ergonomics and various human factors involved in establishing a safe office environment on a Sa...

United Kingdom Business and Environmental Issues

demand for development and the protection of the environment" As such this can be seen as an attempt to regulate and bring togethe...

Buildings That Are Intelligent and Environmentally Sustainable

comes from the one very constant energy pool on which this planet can depend: the sun. Myriad people have already switched to thi...

Construction Industry Case Study of Wimpey Homes

Wimpey Homes is the focus of this construction industry case study consisting of sixteen pages that considers the company's enviro...

Overview of the Hoover Dam

done from its start should not be lost in environmentalist causes. Of course, such issues do need attention. At the same time, th...

Hoover Dam

after the agreement was made, and Congress finally came up with the money for the project, there was a bidding war (Ward, 1994). ...

Road Construction Environmental Impact

This could have an adverse health impact on citizens who already have respiratory problems and could cause new problems in all peo...

The Value Of Agricultural Land

as being valuable. Resource value is more stable than commodity value (Florida Stewardship Foundation, 2000). Commodity values c...

Benefits and Impacts of Hoover Dam's Lake Mead

Although there are concrete dams over 900 feet high today none is as famous as Hoover Dam (Durgen and Pechin, 1999). As though th...

Environmental Management

companies specialising in cleaning pollution and manufacturing of clean up equipment (Chyssides and Kaler, 1998). An inter...

A Global Perspective on Environmental Problems

residents of one country ay be harmed by pollution generated by another (Akimoto, 2003, p1716). These initial early measurements o...

U.S. Emvironmental Policy in 1992

This 6 page paper discusses U.S. international environmental policy, and examines the failure of the U.S. to take its expected lea...

Charlotte Bronte's Protagonist Jane Eyre

In five pages a character analysis of Jane Eyre and how her development progresses in 5 different environmental settings are prese...

Environmental Impact of El Nino

no rain - and people died of starvation and disease from lack of water and lack of crops (Goreman, 1998). ENSO also...

Environmental Sustenance Quest

In twelve pages this paper examines sustaining the future through environmental preservation....