BenchMark
BenchMark is an award-winning, quarterly, general interest engineering magazine that covers a broad range of trends, topics and engineering disciplines.
Articles In This Issue
BenchMark 2005 No. 3: CSI St. Louis; News in Brief
CSI St. Louis: New police forensic laboratory; News in Brief: Seminole Electric Plant, Coal-Fired Symposium, Tri-State Tollway, Engineering Excellence Award.
BenchMark 2005 No. 3: Tech Q&A/How It Works
Technical Q&A: Meteorological analysis provides more than a weekly weather forecast; How It Works: Ethanol - From Feedstock to Fuel.
Some engineering feats -- the Hoover Dam, the Holland Tunnell -- are known for their size. But size is just one way to "wow" clients.
VLJ is the acronym for "very light jet" -- commercial jet aircraft that weight less than 10,000 pounds and carry just a handful of passengers.
Lighting the Way: Giving Cities the Information They Need
Infrastructure needs go beyond roads and water mains -- street lighting is key.
Something for Everyone: Texas Transmission Line Structures Turn Up in Every Imaginable Locale
TXU Electric Delivery has transmission lines crossing territory ranging from wetland to desert, rural to urban.
Tea for Two: Studies Help Unilever Determine Best Options for Duplicating Lipton Line
Unilever brought in Burns & McDonnell to help evaluate options for increasing production capacity of a process line.
The Central Mission: The Joint Intelligence Center
The first phase of an overall upgrade of Central Command facilities, the JIC is being designed as a highly specialized complex for its important defense function.
Waste to Energy: Retrofit and Upgrade of Energy Recycling and Recovery Facility
The upgraded facility will be the newest waste-to-energy facility in the U.S.
The biggest wow of all: A really happy client -- projects with remarkable safety records, new markets, important facilities.



