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Preliminaries
1	CONSTRUCTION
1.1	Life Cycle Costing of Office Buildings at the Preliminary Design Stage A.C. Khanduri, C. Bédard and S. Alkass	1
1.2	A Computer based Simulation of Concreting Operations E. Alkoc	9
1.3	A Computer Model for the Assessment of Construction Price Changes under High Inflation C. Maroun and S Alkass	15
2	CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
2.1	An Integrated Performance Evaluation System (IPES) C. Randall, P.H. McGowan and R.M.W. Horner	25
2.2	Computer Aided Productivity Analysis J. Christian and D. Hachey	33
2.3	Chance Design Costs - A Distributional Limit R.M. Stark	39
2.4	Integrating Project Time with Cost and Price Data D. Bower, P.A. Thompson, P.H. McGowan and R.M.W. Horner	41
3	GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING: ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
3.1	An Algorithm for Settlement of Piles in Stratified Soils C. Romanel, P. Rocha Filho and M.A. Cangussu	51
3.2	Dynamic Flexible Matrix of Soil Layer to Laterally Loaded Piles K. Sun and J.A. Pires	57
3.3	Computing Pearson - III Statistics P.H. McDonald	65
3.4	Static and Dynamic Earth Pressure Behind Retaining Wall V.K. Puri, B.M. Das, S.C. Yen, M.A. Wright and J.R. Marcano	73
3.5	Integrated Computer Aided Foundation Design A. Nanda and S. Kumar	79
3.6	Allowable Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations on Geogrid-Reinforced Sand B.M. Das, V.K. Puri, S.C. Yen, E.E. Cook and M.A. Wright	89
4	GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING: MODELLING AND TESTING
4.1	Non-Associated Anisotropic Elasto-Plastic Models for Clays A.R. Bondok	95
4.2	Liquefaction Characteristics of Silts S. Singh	101
4.3	A Computer Control System for Stress Path Triaxial Testing D.G. Toll	107
4.4	Spatial Distribution of Infiltration in the Field Z. Li and L.W. Apperley	115
5	GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING: ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
5.1	The Application of a Soil Structure Interaction Procedure to the Analysis and Design of Raft Foundations I.D. Lefas, V.N. Georgiannou and D.A. Shepherd	123
5.2	Partially Saturated Consolidation of Embankment Dams During Construction A. Nanda	133
6	GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING: FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
6.1	Effect of Fluid Bulk Modulus Variation on the Critical Time Step for Dynamic Analysis of Saturated Soil using an Explicit U-W Scheme A.H.C. Chan, O.O. Famiyesin and D. Muir Wood	141
6.2	Finite Element Analysis of Shafts and Tunnels for the Superconduction Super Collider Project Wern-ping Chen and S. Bauldauf	153
6.3	An Absorbing Boundary Condition for Wave Propagation in Saturated Poroelastic Media: Finite Element Formulation G. Degrande and G.De Roeck	161
6.4	Finite Element Modelling of Vertical Anchor Walls in Sand E.A. Dickin and G.J.W. King	171
7	TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
7.1	A Heuristic Model for Toll Personnel Scheduling S. Lambropoulos, N. Manolopoulos and D. Cattrysse	183
8	WATER ENGINEERING
8.1	A Short Term Simulation Model for the Hourly Operation of a Hydro-Electric System P.S.F. Barbosa, C.C. Pereira and P.M.A. Sapia	191
8.2	Optimal Design of Hydraulic Networks for Water Supply P.S.F. Barbosa and A.P. Graciano	197
8.3	Quality Assurance of Concrete Construction through the Use of Computers K.C. Hover, G.L. Johnson and C.W. Farrell	203

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