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Road construction near Vinh Long. My uncle Ed managed Vietnam operations for a New York based civil engineering firm in 1969-70.
Traffic travels in all directions at the 5 & 52 interchange.
My friends have nicknamed this the impossible shot because you can only get this shot if part of the interchange is closed to traffic.
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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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.
#portlandpotholes #PortlandOregon #MtTaborPark #potholes #neglect #deferredmaintenance #fail #safety #politics #civilengineering
The majestic Manhattan Bridge is silhouette by the setting evening sun. The skyline of lower Manhattan is silhouette as well. The new Freedom Tower can be seen just to the left of the bridge. Prints of this image can be found at fineartamerica.com/featured/silhouette-of-the-manhattan-b...
Poids en ordre de marche : 91 275 - 94 810 kg
Terrassement de la tranche 'Lesménils 3' du centre d'enfouissement de déchets de Lesménils dans le cadre de l’extension de l’installation de stockage de déchets non dangereux (ISDND).
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
Poids en ordre de marche : 38 100 kg
Travaux de reprise des affouillements à l'aval du barrage de Villey-le-Sec sur la Moselle canalisée.
Durée des travaux : avril 2025 → octobre 2025
Montant des travaux : 1 179 660 €
The old drawbridge and the newly completed concrete bridge over the Saint Johns River at DeLand in Volusia County, Florida. Shot in early morning Fog. The fate of the old bridge is still unknown.
Construction de l'ensemble Royal-Hamilius à Luxembourg Ville. L'ensemble comprend 5 immeubles pour 70 appartements sur 7 500 m², 16 000 m² de commerces et services, 10 200 m² de bureaux, 1 300 m² pour un hôtel et 634 places de parking
Pays : Luxembourg🇱🇺
Ville : Luxembourg Ville
Quartier : Centre Ville
Adresse : boulevard Royal
Fonction : Commerces / Logements / Bureaux / Parking
Construction : 2014 → 2019
► Architectes : Foster + Partners / Tetra Kayser Paul & Associés
Niveaux max : R+7
Hauteur max : ≈28.00 m
Surface de plancher : 36 000 m²
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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Portes ouvertes à la Carrière de Trapp de Raon-l'Étape lors des Journées européennes du patrimoine 2023.
Poids en ordre de marche : 104 500 kg
Capacité du godet : 10 - 14 m³
Best viewed Original size.
Civil Engineering (Dutch) liveried 47976 "Aviemore Centre" powers out of the northern portal of Stoke Tunnel near Grantham with an OHL test train - c.08/1993.
Si Bendall tells me that the second vehicle in the consist is test coach "Mentor" (ADB975091) and its pantograph can just be seen in the raised position.
The actual date the image was made is unknown; the indication given is based on the film processing date imprinted on the original slide.
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© 2011 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour transparency; photographed by Geoffrey Spink.
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For almost a year we have had civil engineering works going on at Dysart shore. Barhale the contractors let a few local residents peer down the deep hole in the harbour car-park, shortly before capping it. Last year they cut a channel out to sea at the far end of Pan Ha' and then installed a 200 metre long, storm-water outflow pipe (see my earlier barge photo). Finally they dug a hole 33 ft (11 metres) wide and 35 feet deep (12.5 metres) through solid sandstones and shale. This was lined at the bottom with 10 feet of concrete and a new deep sewage pipe and filtration system was installed (the man hiding in this shot may give you some idea of the scale). The original car park will shortly be resurfaced and the temporary one dug up and then returfed. Then peace will descend on the beach and harbour again (that is until they begin building the new pier, at the harbour in 2011).
www.dysartregeneration.org.uk/
Update. They never did start work on restoring the crumbling harbour Pier. Fife Council's ruling SNP/Lib-Dem coalition withdrew the money that had been earmarked for necessary repairs, thus losing large sums of grant money from the Lottery Fund, Historic Scotland and other bodies, which were linked to the Dysart Regeneration Project. These grants (almost £1 million) have now disappeared forever. When the pier eventually collapses, in the next big storm, closing the harbour forever, I and thousands of Dysart residents will not think kindly of the Scottish Nationalist Party! Our money was used for temporary patching of roads all over Fife and also spent on SNP strongholds in the East Neuk instead?
This nineteenth-century engineering marvel never turned a profit. It is 6.4 kilometres (4 miles) long and only 25 metres (81 feet) wide at sea level, making it impassable for many modern ships. It is currently of little economic importance and is mainly a tourist attraction.
A canal through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth that separates the Peloponnese from the Greek mainland was proposed as early as the 7th century BCE. At that time Corinth settled for a cheaper, simpler solution: a stone carriageway along which boats could be portaged. Roman emperors starting with Julius Caesar also expressed interest in a canal, and Nero began actual construction, breaking ground with his own hands in 67 CE. The workforce consisted of 60,000 Judean captives. But they had dug only about a tenth of the distance before Nero died and Rome lost interest.
The modern attempt began in 1882, after Greek independence from the Ottomans. It took 11 years to complete, bankrupting two construction companies, the owner of the second, and the bank that backed it.
Even after completion, the canal was underutilized. The limestone walls were unstable, being undermined by ships' wakes and collapsing into the canal. The narrow waterway was difficult for ships to navigate, and strong tidal currents arose as a result of differences in the timing of tides in the Ionian and Aegean seas. The high walls also funneled winds. As a result, demand for its use by ships was only a fraction of what had been predicted.
The canal suffered heavy damage in WWII. The retreating British blew the bridge rather than allow it to be taken by the Germans. Then the retreating Germans used explosives to trigger landslides to block the canal, destroyed the rebuilt bridges and dumped locomotives, bridge wreckage and other infrastructure into the canal to hinder repairs. The United States Army Corps of Engineers began to clear the canal in November 1947 and had it reopened at full draft in about a year.
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Capacité de levage max. : 60 t
Construction de l'ensemble immobilier Au Jardin des Arts comprenant 41 logements dans 2 bâtiments.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Metz (57000)
Quartier : Nouvelle-Ville Metz
Adresses : avenue André Malraux / rue Sturel Paigné
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 2022 → 2026
▻ Architecte : Thierry Hamamm
Permis de construire n° PC 57 463 20 X0095
▻ Délivré le 12/08/2021
Niveaux : R+5
Hauteur : 19,25 m
Surface de plancher : 3 105, 91m²
Surface du terrain : 2 558 m²
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The Glory Hole overspill weir on the lower dam in Silent Valley, owned and operated by Northern Ireland Water.
I am a civil engineer, hence stuff like this will always interest me...
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Fog
Carl Sandburg
Looking south towards Michigan / the United States. The International Railroad Bridge was built in 1887 by the Dominion Bridge Company Limited and is an example of a Camelback Truss Span- -a Parker Truss design variation; the bridge consists of nine spans across the St. Mary's River / St. Marys Rapids, and features pinned and riveted connections, a-frame portal bracing, v-lacing support through out, stone abutments and piers. The bridge connects Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Canada to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, United States. The bridge was originally built by the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company and is now owned by the Canadian National Railway Company. Black and white processing alchemy by Nik Silver Efex.
A special supplement, issued as part of the Railway Gazette for 18 November 1932, looking primarily at the Piccadilly line extensions undertaken by the then private London Electric Railways, part of the Underground Group. The scheme, that saw the Piccadilly line extended north in tunnels and on surface tracks from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters and westwards from Hammersmith along adapted District Railway tracks, was mostly funded by way of Government Treasury loans as part of Unemployment relief. There were also significant modernisations of certain extisting central area Piccadilly line stations in connection with the scheme as well as new, additional, trains.
The supplement looks as the construction and civil engineering of both tunnels and stations, fitting out of both railway and passenger infrastructure as well as architecture. There are numerous adverts for suppliers to the scheme such as on the cover; Charles Brand & Son were the main civil engineering contractors for the tunnelling north of Finsbury Park to Arnos Grove as seen here. This included stations at Manor House, Wood Green, Turnpike Lane and Bounds Green.
These works were the last major project delivered by the Underground Group prior to the formation of the London Passenger Transport Board - London Transport - in 1933.
The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift in Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. The lift is named after the nearby town of Falkirk in central Scotland. It opened in 2002, reconnecting the two canals for the first time since the 1930s as part of the Millennium Link project.
The plan to regenerate central Scotland's canals and reconnect Glasgow with Edinburghwas led by British Waterways with support and funding from seven local authorities, the Scottish Enterprise Network, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Millennium Commission.
Planners decided early on to create a dramatic 21st-century landmark structure to reconnect the canals, instead of simply recreating the historic lock flight.
The wheel raises boats by 24 metres (79 ft), but the Union Canal is still 11 metres (36 ft) higher than the aqueduct which meets the wheel. Boats must also pass through a pair of locksbetween the top of the wheel and the Union Canal. The Falkirk Wheel is the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world, and one of two working boat lifts in the United Kingdom, the other being the Anderton boat lift.
The two canals served by the wheel were previously connected by a series of 11 locks. With a 35-metre (115 ft) difference in height, it required 3,500 tonnes (3,400 long tons; 3,900 short tons) of water per run and took most of a day to pass through the flight.
By the 1930s these had fallen into disuse, and the locks were dismantled in 1933.
The Forth and Clyde Canal closed at the end of 1962, and by the mid-1970s the Union Canal was filled in at both ends, rendered impassable by culverts in two places and run in pipes under a housing estate.
The British Waterways Board (BWB) came into existence on 1 January 1963, the day the Forth and Clyde Canal was closed, with the objective of finding a broad strategy for the future of canals in the United Kingdom.
In 1976, the BWB decided after a meeting with local councils that the Forth and Clyde Canal, fragmented by various developments, was to have its remaining navigability preserved by building new bridges with sufficient headroom for boats and continuing to maintain the existing locks.
Restoration of sea-to-sea navigation was deemed too expensive at the time, but there were to be no further restrictions on its use.
MMA 1979 survey report documented 69 obstructions to navigation, and sought the opinions of twenty interested parties to present the Forth and Clyde Local (Subject) Plan in 1980.
The Lotteries Act 1993 resulted in the creation of the Millennium Commission to disseminate funds raised by the sale of lottery tickets for selected "good causes."
In 1996, when sufficient funds had been accumulated, the Commission invited applications to "do anything they thought desirable ... to support worthwhile causes which would mark the year 2000 and the start of the new millennium."The conditions were that the Commission would fund no more than half of the project, with the remaining balance being covered by project backers.
The BWB had made an earlier plan for the reopening of the canal link, which comprehensively covered the necessary work. In 1994, the BWB announced its plan to bid for funding, which was submitted in 1995 on behalf of the Millennium Link Partnership. The plans called for the canals to be opened to their original operating dimensions, with 3 metres (9.8 ft) of headroom above the water. The whole project had a budget of £78 million.
On Valentine's Day 1997, the Commission announced it would support the Link with £32 million of funding, 42% of the project cost.
The Wheel and its associated basin was priced at £17 million, more than a fifth of the total budget.Another £46 million had to be raised in the next two years before construction could commence, with contributions from BWB, seven local councils, Scottish Enterprise, and private donations being augmented by £8.6 million from the European Regional Development Fund.
Poids en ordre de marche : 77 300 - 97 700 kg
Hauteur de travail : 39 m
Désamiantage et déconstruction de l'immeuble Bergamote comprenant 144 logements sur le Plateau de Haye à Nancy dans le cadre du Nouveau Projet de Renouvellement Urbain 2017-2029.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Plateau de Haye
Adresse : 13-18, rue de la Bergamote
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 1967 → 1968
Déconstruction : Janvier 2025 → Octobre 2025
Niveaux : R+12
Hauteur : ≈39,00 m
Déconstruction de l'ancien site Brossette à Nancy en vue de la construction du programme l'Idéallée. Le nouvel ensemble de 10 184 m² en R+4 est dessiné par le cabinet Rabolini-Schlegel et Associés. Livraison prévue en 2020.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Est
Adresse : 29, rue de Château Salins
Fonction : Industrie - Commerces
Construction : ≈1930
Déconstruction : 2018
• Entreprise : B2X Démolition
Niveaux : R+1
Hauteur : ≈17.00 m
Surface de plancher : 5 400 m²
Superficie du terrain : 5 830 m²
Holyoke Gas & Electric's hydroelectic dam on the Connecticut River, site of the Robert E. Barrett Fishway (www.hged.com/community-environment/fishway/default.aspx)
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/335300
Local call number: MSC5751
Title: Close-up view of a rock cutter in the Everglades Drainage District
Date: ca. 1920
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 3 x 6 in.
Series Title: Manuscript Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, Archives@dos.myflorida.com
The Port Expansion Project in the Great Bay of Philipsburg, St. Maarten (SXM), Netherlands Antilles, consisted of a Cruise Jetty and a Cargo Harbour and involved Landfill works.
Contractors Aarsleff of Denmark and Ballast Nedam of Holland
Project Owner The Port of St. Maarten & St. Maarten Port Services
Project Designer Lievense of Holland