All staff are encouraged to submit articles (roughly 1,200 words). Describe a technical challenge that you encountered on a project, and explain the innovative techniques and unique solutions that you devised to solve the problem. You can write about the topics below, or anything else of professional interest to others around the world. See “Call for Articles” for guidelines.

Issue 60. 1st quarter '05. Buildings

PB is involved in many aspects of infrastructure buildings, public buildings which serve as the interface between the community and its infrastructure backbone. The community won't operate without the infrastructure buildings and they can't operate without the infrastructure itself. Topics to include buildings and campuses for health, education, defense, telecommunications.

Contact Peter Collins (Bristol, collinsP@pbworld.com). To be co-sponsored by the PANs for Building Civil/Structural Design, Building Services/HVAC, Education Facilities, Architecture and Urban Design, the Buildings group of PB Ltd., PB Asia, PBCS, and others.

Issue 61. 2nd quarter '05. Taming Intersection Congestion: Innovative Analysis, Planning, Operations and Design Solutions

This issue will cover innovative analysis, planning, operations and design techniques used to meet the challenges of high-volume intersections. Topics will include roundabouts, unconventional arterial intersections, road "diets," urban interchanges (such as SPUI's), access management, traffic signal timings and systems, microsimulations tools for traffic modeling, and intersections with transit or other modes.

Deadline: February 2005. Contact Jonathan Reid (Charlotte, North Carolina, 704-342-5401, reid@pbworld.com). To be co-sponsored by the PANs for Traffic Engineering and Operations; Travel Modeling & Simulation; Intelligent Transportation Systems, and others.

Issue 62. Tunneling and Geotechnical Engineering

PB engineers are working on many major tunneling projects around the world, such as the planning of a major highway tunnel in Seattle , the design of an undercrossing of the Bosporus in Turkey , subway tunnels in Shanghai , New York , and San Francisco , and the construction of a deep tunnel sewer system in Singapore . Several William Barclay Parsons Fellows are compiling research handbooks on a number of related subjects from earth pressure balance tunnel boring machines, to designing for explosions in tunnels, and analyzing construction related vibration. Additional topics may include security of underground spaces, ground modification, long-span bridge foundations, combined sewer overflow projects, and other state-of-the-art applications.

Deadline: May 2005. Contact Gordon Clark, Seattle, 206-382-5246, clark@pbworld.com. To be co-sponsored by PANs for Geotechnical engineering, Tunnel/Underground engineering, the Geotechnical and Tunneling Service Center, and others.

Issue 63. Systems Engineering and Quality Engineering

Other Future Topics

Please contact John Chow or any editor to discuss new topics. Other proposed themes are: Security; CADD; geotechnical instrumentation; the new Cincinnati Reds Ballpark; program management; scheduling; bridge management, bridge inspection and rehabilitation, and automated inspection services. What are your ideas?