Frequent battery replacements, missed calls, and garbled messages meant just one thing to Albert Brunson, head of public building equipment maintenance for Cumberland County, N.C.: time to update his mobile communications system. More
In the past five years, three relatively large, active landfills with fully operational corrective-action groundwater extraction systems found that gas—not leachate—was contaminating groundwater. More
Wacker Neuson Corp. introduces a new website for its Climate Control product line, designed specifically to provide thawing, curing, heating and drying solutions for contractors and end-users. More
For municipalities facing the difficult task of improving their wastewater... More
Over the past two decades, the evolution of geographic information systems (GIS)... More
The technology used to monitor the health of structures isn't new. It was used even before the mid-'70s when monitoring devices were built for specific job locations and installed to track certain events. Technicians then visited the structure periodically to record data, evaluate it, and produce reports for the owner. But today there's a wide range of "off-the-shelf" sensors, hardware, and software available. Thanks to the Internet, cell phone technology, miniaturized computers, and PDAs, information can be transferred more conveniently. Sensing devices can be installed either during construction or anytime after. Today several companies install and report data in this way. More
