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eu ri :x
Hoje foi o dia da decisão!
me inscrevi para o curso de Engenharia civil!!!
espero que eu passe no vestibular!!
can laugh
Today was the day of decision!
I signed up for the course in civil engineering!
I hope I pass the entrance exam!
Construction d'un site de maintenance et de remisage dédié à la ligne Nancy - Mirecourt - Vittel - Contrexéville à Mirecourt.
P R É S E N T A T I O N
Construction : 2025 → 2027
Architecte : JFS architectes
Fonction : Transport
Permis de construire : PC 88 304 24 M0012
▻ Délivré le 02/05/2025
A R C H I T E C T U R E
Hauteur : 12,25 m
Surface de plancher : 2 146 m²
Superficie du terrain : 25 253 m²
L O C A L I S A T I O N
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Vosges (88)
Ville : Mirecourt (88500)
Adresse : 108, avenue Chavanne
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Sunrise time at The Tungabhadra Dam, Hospet, Karnataka.
The chief architect of this dam was Dr.Thirumala Iyengar. The construction was started in 1949 & completed in 1953. It was a joint venture between erstwhile Hyderabad State & Madras Presidency. Now it's currently under the Govt of Karnataka. This dam serves many purposes like irrigation, power, flood control, etc. This dam is also a major tourist attraction as it also holds a beautiful garden & a sanctuary.
Boat goes in at bottom. Wheel spins round. Boat goes out at top. Brilliant. (It works the other way, too!)
Have you ever been to historic places in south India and ever wondered why the heck on earth you find so many ugly holes on huge rocks, right next to nice carvings and scriptures? Well if you have the discovery DVD's and seen it already, good enough. The folks who still have no clue, listen carefully.
The maximum load that you are allowed to transport in the USA by road is about 30 tonnes. Anything more than this requires a license and specialized equipment and of course a lot of things. Now come to India, rewind your time way back to say 3500 B.C or 300 B.C or 700 A.D when most of these huge temples were built. We did not have airplanes, we did not have trucks or cranes to do the job. Nope, god did not do shit as usual, nor did black magic or divine power. Engineering science did the job.
The average weight of each and every rock is about 1300 tonnes and many of them shot past the regular 7000 tonne mark. Now how do you take these rocks up the hill, about 700 meters up the sea level? The simple answer is you gotta break them into pieces and take them, but then how the heck do you break such huge rocks. If your answer was drill and hammer them out, sorry mate, you scored an F :-) (i did too!)
Drilling, hammering et all was time consuming and resourceful and required impossible amount of manpower and horsepower. Explosives are a thing that happened a few hundred years ago and were unheard of during these times. Even if they were available, blasting off mountain rocks meant you could not use them properly and cut it on a shape you wanted them to come out for specific purposes. So, here is what they did.
Instead of breaking the entire rock, they drilled very small holes into them along the line where the rock was meant to be broken. As soon as the holes were drilled, soft pieces of wood was thrust into these holes and the rock was heated so that it would expand (remember the physics lesson, objects expand on heat) and they thrust more soft wood into these holes and sealed them with mud and plastered it with lime. Now pour cold water over it in large quantities, the rock cools down and contracts, however the wood inside absorbs the water and expands due to its soft nature and absorbing characteristic. So rock shrinks, wood enlarges/expands and thereby forces the rock to crack along the lines where the wholes were drilled.
Ta daa! You have a neatly cut rock precise to the line where the engineer drew the line and you could not cut them again into smaller pieces till they could be carried over or carved here for whatever use they were meant to be. That's exactly how they did it. Engineering freaking genius, 1000's of years back!
Canon EOS 400D with the Sigma EF 24 - 70 MM F/2.8, Aperture Priority, F/8 at 1/200th of a Second, ISO100.
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Opened in 1902. The tunnel runs under the Thames from the bottom of the Isle of Dogs to Greenwich. I'm delighted to discover that there is a group called "Friends of the Greenwich and Woolwich foot tunnels" or FOGWOFT.
I was inspired to re-visit the tunnel after seeing the picture posted by Past London:
www.flickr.com/photos/pastlondon/11627702033/
which is still a better picture than mine IMHO
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Vista showing the chalk cliffs at Saltdean and an undercliff walk that extends west, over 3 miles, to the Brighton Marina. The route was designed by Borough Engineer David Edwards, 1933, using over 13,000 tons of cement and 150,000 concrete blocks. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)
One of the stranger things about Haven SeaChallenger is that this substantial offshore construction platform is more than half a century old. It was built in Japan by Nippon Steel Corporation in 1974, yet after rebuilding and modernisation it is still earning its keep on some of Britain’s newest and largest infrastructure projects. It has previously carried the names Fugro 1200, Eunsung 1200 and Tsukudo No. 1.
Seen here off Sizewell on the Suffolk coast in August 2026, the vessel is a self-elevating jack-up barge. It floats to its working position like a conventional barge, then lowers its four huge tubular steel legs onto the seabed. The hull can then be jacked upwards, leaving the working deck effectively standing on stilts above the waves. This creates a remarkably stable platform from which heavy cranes, piling machinery and other equipment can work without the vessel rising and falling with the sea.
Haven SeaChallenger measures approximately 50 metres long by 24 metres wide, giving it about 1,200 square metres of deck area. Its four legs are around 55 metres long and 1.8 metres in diameter, while its deck is rated for loads of up to 1,000 tonnes. The legs can be raised or lowered at roughly 30 metres per hour. Despite the rather industrial appearance, it can also provide live-aboard accommodation for crews, allowing offshore work to continue without repeatedly ferrying personnel to and from shore.
The vessel is operated by Red7Marine, the Essex/Suffolk-based specialist marine contractor. The registered owner has been listed as I&C Ltd, trading as Red7Marine. Red7Marine bought the vessel in 2021 as a major expansion of its jack-up fleet, specifically to enable it to undertake larger marine infrastructure, renewable-energy, nuclear, port, coastal-protection and flood-defence projects. The purchase price does not appear to have been publicly disclosed.
This is not simply a floating crane platform. Jack-up barges such as SeaChallenger are useful wherever construction has to take place in shallow or near-shore water. Piles can be driven, sea defences installed, cables landed, foundations built and underwater structures positioned while the barge itself remains almost completely isolated from wave movement. Red7Marine even has specialist piling gates designed specifically for SeaChallenger, including a structure more than 15 metres high used to hold piles accurately while they are installed.
The wider setting in the first photograph is particularly interesting. Behind SeaChallenger stands the unmistakable white dome of the existing Sizewell B nuclear power station, while the enormous construction site for Sizewell C is spreading along the coast immediately beside it.
Sizewell C is being built as a two-reactor 3.2 GW European Pressurised Reactor – EPR – nuclear power station, intended eventually to produce enough electricity for the equivalent of around six million homes. The government gave the project its final investment decision in July 2025 and financial close followed in November that year.
Its scale is extraordinary. The National Audit Office reported in May 2026 that Sizewell C Ltd's current risk-adjusted project baseline was around £38.2 billion in 2024–25 prices, with the station projected to be fully operational by July 2039. A higher regulatory threshold allows for costs of up to approximately £47.7 billion, associated with a later August 2043 completion scenario.
Much of the work taking place offshore is intended to make construction of the power station itself possible. Between about 2025 and 2035, Sizewell C's marine programme includes temporary sea defences, cooling-water intake and outfall structures beneath the seabed, drainage and desalination works, a permanent Beach Landing Facility and a temporary Marine Bulk Import Facility, or MBIF.
The MBIF is essentially a temporary freight jetty extending roughly 500 metres into the North Sea. Large barges will be able to berth alongside it and unload aggregate and other bulk materials directly onto the Sizewell construction site. Around 2.8 million tonnes of material are expected to pass through the facility during construction. Its purpose is to avoid sending all of that material along Suffolk's roads. Sizewell C intends a large proportion of its construction material to arrive by either rail or sea.
SeaChallenger is therefore part of a much wider offshore construction fleet. Other jack-up barges, including Excalibur and NP497, have been working within the Sizewell marine construction zone on piling, drainage, desalination and other offshore structures during 2026. At the peak of marine construction later in the decade, Sizewell C Harbour Authority expects the waters off the site to become exceptionally busy with construction vessels, barges, tugs, survey craft and service boats.
SeaChallenger itself has already had an unusually varied working life. In 2023 it was used to transport an offshore artificial “kittiwake hotel” from Lowestoft, providing nesting space for black-legged kittiwakes displaced by offshore development. In 2024 it was photographed off Weybourne on the north Norfolk coast during offshore cable-related work. It has also been used on projects such as Portland Port's new deep-water berth, where Red7Marine installed 136 steel tubular piles as part of a £3.6 million piling contract.
So although its basic hull dates from 1974, Haven SeaChallenger is now working in a world its original designers could scarcely have imagined: offshore wind farms, environmental mitigation projects and the construction of a new generation of nuclear power stations.
These aerial photographs show particularly clearly how a jack-up barge works. What appear at first to be four giant chimneys are actually its legs. When work is complete at one location the hull is lowered back into the water, the legs are retracted, and the whole platform can be towed away to its next job.
The result is a rather extraordinary combination: a 52-year-old Japanese-built marine platform helping construct one of Britain's most modern and expensive energy projects.
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Cracking job, Simon McGuinness!
so i guess this was the photo that i drove more than 3000 miles from Miami to New york. when i finally got there, the skies were ugly and cloudy and then all of a sudden from nowhere sun appeared. guess who was very happy :-)
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In Paris, this is simply called Gare du Nord, which means North Station. Gare is Station. Nord is North. Speaking of "Nord" I first heard about this word watching Die Hard III... remember that bottle of aspirin -- Bruce Willis' clue of where the terrorists were taking the Gold -- it says "Nord Des Lignes" -- pinpointing the location somewhere in Canada. And by the way, a lot of Canadian areas are French Speaking.
You are looking at the facade of one of the busiest train stations in the world, and the busiest in Europe. From this train station, one can go to destinations such as Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and United Kingdom. And of course, northern France.
Paris, France
Designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson and built by local company Dorman Long who have also been responsible for such structures as the Tyne Bridge and Sydney Harbour Bridge, it was the first large vertical-lift bridge in Britain
The bridge was inaugurated by Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) and opened to traffic on 28 February 1934.Constructed around twin 55 m (180 ft) lifting towers, the 82 m (269 ft) bridge span, weighing 2,700 tonnes, could be lifted by the use of two 325 H.P. electric motors at 16 m (52 ft) per minute to a maximum height of 37 m (121 ft). In the event of motor failure a standby 450 H.P. petrol engine could be employed to move the bridge, but should both systems fail it was possible to raise or lower the span manually using a winch mechanism. It was estimated in 1963 by Mr R. Batty, long time Bridge Master at Newport Bridge, that "it would take 12 men eight hours" to complete the movement by hand.
Originally, 12 men would have been employed to man the bridge around the clock, usually requiring four to drive it at any one time. This was accomplished from the oak-panelled winding house situated midway along the bridge span. During the 1940s and early 1950s this would occur up to twice a day with an average of 800 vessels per year passing under it, despite staffing difficulties during the 1940s when men were away fighting. However, as the number of ships needing to sail up to Stockton-on-Tees declined, so did the usage of the bridge.
The legal requirement to lift the bridge for shipping traffic was removed in 1989 after the repeal of a Parliamentary Act. Before mechanical decommissioning Mr Ian MacDonald, who worked on the bridge from 1966, finally as Bridge Master, supervised the final lift on 18 November 1990.
The Tees Newport Bridge still serves as a road bridge, carrying considerable traffic as a section of the A1032, despite the presence of the A19 Tees Viaduct a short distance upriver. In recent years it was repainted in its original green and some minor maintenance took place on the wire ropes and counterbalances which still take the majority of the bridge load. In 1988 the bridge was given Grade II Listed Building status.
Work started in July 2014 to paint the bridge red and silver to mark its 80th anniversary. The work was originally planned to take 6 weeks, but was completed behind schedule and over-budget in October 2015. The main cause for the delay was that the bridge had not been maintained by Stockton Council for 15 years, and much of the steelwork was in a poor condition.
Road construction near Vinh Long. My uncle Ed managed Vietnam operations for a New York based civil engineering firm in 1969-70.
A mini-series following my 44mm-high Homies character Pelon, where he poses for photo ops at potholes on the streets of Mount Tabor Park.
Leadership fixes potholes, not patching.
Chronic neglect of Portland's streets is manifesting in the burgeoning number and size of dangerously large potholes across the city. Here, pothole road damage is seen in Mount Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon.
Engineering: From a technical perspective, a great deal of information can be gleaned from a deep pothole, as it provides a cross-section-view of the pavement structural section, or lack thereof, as in this case. Here, the asphalt wearing surface is heavily pitted, highly oxidized and brittle, confirming many years of neglect. At this pothole, the asphalt layer is thick; confirming this road has received an overlay, but perhaps covering up this pothole without first repairing it. The base course layer is hard to characterize because of the quantity of water present. Roadway base course should be well-graded, faceted aggregate so as to provide optimum particle interlock. This dangerous pothole, in the traveled way and where pedestrians cross, can be repaired by cutting out and reconstructing, but simply patching or overlaying will rapidly lead to a repeat failure, preventing a level of service, or service life, that should be reasonably expected of it.
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Can't believe the concrete slab is poured and finished too! Just the rails are left to be installed!!!
A ground engineering expert applying shotcrete to a retaining structure
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