chapter 1 Innovative conceptual design of vibration sensitive buildings S.L. Lee, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore C.G. Koh, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore D.K.H. Chua, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore -- chapter 2 Fatigue and durability of steel bridges / chapter 3 Prediction of reinforcement corrosion in concrete structures A.G. Razaqpur, Centre for Effective Design of Structures, McMaster University, Department of Civil Engineering, Hamilton, O.B. Isgor, Carleton University, Department of Civil and Environmental / chapter 4 Introduction of optimum structural design and its recent developments Franklin Y. Cheng, Missouri University of Science & Technology, (formerly University of Missouri Rolla), Rolla, MO, USA -- chapter 5 Quality assurance and risk reduction in foundation engineering Wilson H. Tang, Department of Civil Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Limin Zhang, Department of Civil Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong -- chapter 6 Geosynthetics for soil reinforcement R.D. Holtz, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA -- chapter 7 Risk-based decision making for energy infrastructure R.B. Gilbert, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA -- chapter 8 The role of risk assessment in performance-based engineering Bruce R. Ellingwood, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA -- chapter 9 Bayesian network methodology for post-earthquake infrastructure risk management Armen Der Kiureghian, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Michelle Bensi, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Daniel Straub, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA -- chapter 10 Quantifying the benefits of risk reduction in civil infrastructure systems -- chapter 11 A risk-based framework for multi-hazard management of infrastructure -- chapter 12 Resilience and sustainability of infrastructure systems -- chapter 13 Application of reliability in earthquake engineering -- chapter 14 Life-cycle cost and bridge management / chapter 15 Life-cycle cost analysis and design of civil infrastructures -- chapter 16 Life-cycle cost and performance prediction: Role of structural health monitoring Dan M. Frangopol, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ATLSS Research Center, Lehigh University, Thomas B. Messervey, Department of Structural Mechanics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy / chapter 17 Structural health assessment using noise-contaminated minimum dynamic response information Achintya Haldar, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA -- chapter 18 Construction remote sensing, building blackbox, and 3-D laser scanning applications Liang Y. Liu, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA -- chapter 19 Understanding and minimizing risk associated with dynamic earthwork operations using discrete event simulation Julio C. Martinez, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.