Sentences with phrase «estimates engineering studies»

¥ Prepared cost estimates engineering studies and material procurements.

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Officials in Glencoe have paid a civil engineering firm close to $ 70,000 to conduct a study of the village's water system — a task officials said is necessary before they can begin talking to residents about details of an estimated $ 35 million plan to replace the village's aging water plant.

Gustafson said that the scope and estimated cost of the project can not be determined until the initial engineering study is completed.

The village and Park District are planning to hire an engineering consultant to study the feasibility of the trail, estimated to cost $ 550,000 and which would be funded by state and federal dollars.

Simple engineering analyses that estimate bone strength may yield overly optimistic results, a new study suggests.

«For this study, GRACE served as a unique tool that provided information on water volume changes directly from space, and corroborated the water balance estimates,» said Hyongki Lee, a co-author of the study and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Houston.

«It is estimated that the average household in the North Dakota Bakken region uses about 80 to 160 gallons of water a day,» said Corrie Clark, an environmental systems engineer in Argonne's Environmental Science Division and co-author of a new study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

The problem of open fires and primitive stoves for cooking — which WHO estimates cause 1.5 million deaths annually — requires more engineering studies to come up with clean, cheap alternatives.

Based on engineering studies, studies of economic feasibility, and information on the expected use of equipment or facilities, the Secretary shall estimate the net capital project cost.

David Pimentel, a professor of ecology at Cornell University who has been studying grain alcohol for 20 years, and Tad Patzek, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, co-wrote a recent report that estimates that making ethanol from corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel itself actually contains.

It is telling that while there are thousands of articles, studies, books and movies about the relatively miniscule quantities of well - managed spent fuel that comes out of nuclear plants, there is to date only one estimate of how much solar waste the world is on track to produce, and it was calculated for the first time by an 18 - year - old nuclear engineering student from UC Berkeley and (proudly) published yesterday by Environmental Progress.

Unfortunately, many of these added costs of non-hydro «renewables» are difficult to estimate from engineering studies, which leads to widespread underestimation of them.

The new estimate appears likely to be far more accurate since it is based on actual experience in Western Europe where similar efforts have been pursued for a number of years and rates have increased rapidly where there has been extensive use of non-hydro «renewables,» and includes all the hidden costs such as rebuilding the electric grid that are so difficult to model using engineering studies.

To use my knowledge of electrical engineering to support engineering teams in meeting their business objectives and to help in preparing various engineering reports, estimates and proposals based on calculations and studies of various engineering activities.

In that time I have successfully managed front end engineering design studies engineering estimating efforts through plant construction commissioning and handover.