Early warning system
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The Rock Hazard Rating System has been developed to help highway agencies and owners mitigate risks of rock slope failures by determining which slopes are most dangerous and ought to be remediated first. The system can also provide methods on how best to spend limited remediation funds and, in the case of litigation arising from a rockfall accident, can show that owners had a rotational system in stalled to fix the most hazardous slopes first.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 1999
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Buildings: skiers enjoy column-free indoor slope in Middle East
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The details pertaining to Ski Dubai, a world-class ski slope, which is to come up in emirate of Dubai, are discussed. This would be the third longest indoor ski slope in the world.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 2006
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