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Renata Starostka, a PhD student in environmental engineering, takes the first swing at the CEE Mini Golf course set up in the Blue Lounge of the George G. Brown Laboratory on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, October 12, 2022.
For this round two environmental engineers teamed up to play with two civil engineering undergrads. From left to right the others are Renisha Karki, Anthony Colton, and Claire Smith.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
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I went for a visit to Derby for their comedy festival and to spend the weekend with Gemma.
Saturday morning we went to Belper to the river gardens and the horseshoe weir, which is an incredible piece of civil engineering!
The gardens are lovely and tranquil. It was a great little alternative to our usual trip to Dovedale - which we called off because the weather wasn't great.
Had a lovely morning though!
Road engineering of 1830 - a bridge carrying the Maidstone-Cranbrook turnpike across the Loose Valley near Maidstone, Kent. The turnpike was surveyed by Henry Robinson Palmer and this bridge enabled the road to avoid the former steep descent and ascent of the valley. Shortly after this railways rendered trunk roads largely redundant and road engineering took a break for nearly 100 years.
This bridge today still carries the A229 across the valley.
On site static diesel driven concrete drum mixer and concrete pump. When the auger has bored down to the required depth, concrete from the drum mixer is pumped (via the large hose) in to the void to create a cast in-situ pile.
This image is part of the CalVisual for Construction Image Archive. For more information visit www.engsc.ac.uk/resources/calvisual/index.asp
Author: Loughborough University
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. The asphalt layer is minimal, except for the broken patch left of center – obviously a previous attempt to repair this same pothole – confirming this road never received the maintenance originally planned. The river-rounded pebbles of the base course layer tell the story of a roadway constructed originally from deficient materials. Roadway base course should be well-graded, faceted aggregate so as to provide optimum particle interlock – a crushed and sieved mix from those same pebbles would suffice. Finally, from the moisture visible in the pothole, and the shape of terrain at the road shoulders, it is clear that poor drainage has contributed to the failure of this road. The conclusion is unequivocal; this road has failed and no amount of patching will restore a level of service – or service life – that should be reasonably expected of it.
#portlandpotholes #PortlandOregon #MtTaborPark #potholes #neglect #deferredmaintenance #fail #safety #politics #civilengineering.
Chicago, Illinois
Constructed 1892-1900
Until 1900, the Chicago River drained into Lake Michigan, along with all the sewage from the city; and the Des Plaines River west of Chicago emptied into the Illinois River, which eventually flows to the Mississippi. Chicago residents drew their drinking water from polluted areas of the lake near the mouth of the Chicago River, leading to outbreaks of typhoid and other waterborne diseases.
By 1889, the Sanitary District of Chicago was organized to combat the city's sanitation problems. One of the District's first projects was a canal connecting the Chicago River with the Des Plaines River, cutting through a line of hills west of the city. This allowed a regulated amount of water to flow out of Lake Michigan, through the Chicago River, and into the Illinois River. The reversal program resulted in a multi-purpose project involving water supply, pollution control, transportation, and power generation.
Facts
The completion of the entire project eventually resulted in the construction of a river 31 miles long and 26 feet deep. The entire project cost over $70 million.
Thirteen bridges were built over the main canal. All are moveable bridges, so that canal boats can pass through.
Seven sluice gates, each 30 feet wide, and a movable dam 160 feet long were built at Lockport. By opening these gates or lowering the dam, the amount of water flowing in the main channel can be regulated at all times.
Engineering techniques and earthmoving machines develop during construction of the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal were used to build the Panama Canal.
In 1885, a huge storm dumped more than six inches of rain on the city within a two-day period. The heavy rainfall flushed the streets, catch basins, and sewers into the river and polluted the lake far beyond the intake cribs that supplied the city's drinking water. Roughly 1.2 percent of the city's population became sick and died from cholera, typhoid, and dysentery in the aftermath of this storm.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
Trying to locate this photo at the Duke University Archives? You’ll find it in the University Archives Photograph Collection, box 58.
This excavator was carrying out a trail pit site investigation before the sides of the excavation gave way. Trail pits are the cheapest method of exploration to shallow depths.
This image is part of the CalVisual for Construction Image Archive. For more information visit www.engsc.ac.uk/resources/calvisual/index.asp
Author: Loughborough University
Poids en ordre de marche : 22 250 - 23 750 kg
Démolition totale de 7 pavillons.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Haussonville - Blandan - Donop
Adresse : avenue de Brabois
Fonction : Logements
Déconstruction : 2024 → 2025
Permis de démolir n° PD 54 395 21 R0017
▻ Délivré le 05/11/2021
Surface des bâtiments à démolir : 1 727 m²
Travaux sur le réseau de chauffage urbain rue des Jardiniers à Nancy.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : rue des Jardiniers
Poids en ordre de marche : 5 000 kg
Capacité de la réservoir : 10 m³
Construction de l'ensemble immobilier Les Rivages composé de 4 bâtiments pour 98 logements en accession à la propriété et d’une résidence services seniors de 115 logements.
Le projet se situe sur l'ancien site des Entreprises Jules Kronberg (négociant en charbon). Quelques éléments seront conservés comme la cheminée d'une hauteur de 38 mètres ainsi qu’un bâtiment situé sur le bord du boulevard Lobau.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : 45, boulevard Lobau
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 2021 → 2022
► Architecte : Malot & Associés
► Gros œuvre : WIG France
► PC n° 54 395 19 R0067 délivré le 11/10/2019
Niveaux : R+6
Hauteur : 25.00 m
Surface de plancher : 12 989 m²
Superficie du terrain : 5 610 m²
The cofferdam for the new fishing pier is in situ ready for concrete filling in late December 2015. The MV "Victress" awaits loading at the Port.
Camera: Olympus FE-120 digital compact.
Civil Engineering: Success of any land development. Civil engineering services / jobs for civil engineering projects & civil engineering design at eEngineers in India.
20 Jul 1967, Near DMZ, South Vietnam --- Navy Seabees of Mobile Construction Battalion Eleven, assisted by U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops, use heavy equipment at Song Ha to construct new roads and buildings to fortify the perimeter of the demilitarized zone which separates North and South Vietnam.
Poids en ordre de marche : 25 400 - 26 400 kg
Démolition du viaduc de Herserange construit en 1961 et long de 400 mètres.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Herserange (54440)
Construction : 1961
Déconstruction : Juillet 2025 → Août 2025
Diagonal roof supports in the new main building of Reading Station. Taken for the Photo a Day Challenge and Challenge Friday, theme diagonal.
(Caption: The Diyala Weir on the Diyala River, 55 miles north east of Baghdad)
University of Salford academics have published a study, which shows that the flow of fresh water to Iraq via the Diyala River has been depleted by man-made regulation at its source in Iran, and have called for a treaty to protect Iraq’s water supply.
The Diyala River forms a natural border between Iran and Iraq for around 20 miles. It flows from Iran’s Zagros Mountains into eastern Iraq and joins the Tigris near Baghdad.
The new research shows that there has been a sharp shift in the flow of the Diyala during the last 15 years which cannot be attributed to climate change and dry spells alone. The reduction correlates with the building of dams, large-scale irrigation schemes, fish farms, and the industrial and municipal use of water upstream in Iran, causing the dwindling of the river’s flow into Iraq.
Mississippi Guardmember Tech. Sgt. Eddie Morgan, a welder with the Mississippi Air National Guard's 186th Civil Engineering Squadron, deployed to Joint Task Force Guantanamo with the 474th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron, welds a seam into a water boiler at Camp Justice, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba May 18, 2010. The 474th ECES supports JTF Guantanamo by maintaining the Expeditionary Legal Complex and Camp Justice facilities and infrastructure. (Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Joshua Nistas)
Poids en ordre de marche : 17 600 - 20 600 kg
Chantier de modernisation de l'échangeur de Pontpierre sur l'autoroute A4 dans le cadre du projet GRIDX.
New York City to Hoboken, New Jersey
Completed 1908
...[O]ne of the greatest engineering feats ever accomplished, greater perhaps than the Panama Canal will be when opened, considering the obstacles which had to be overcome...
- The New York Times, 1908
A transportation tunnel under the Hudson River connecting Manhattan and New Jersey was first considered in the 1860s, fueled by New York City's rapidly growing congestion and the inadequacy of existing ferry service to population centers across the river. DeWitt Clinton Haskin, an engineer formerly with the Union Pacific Railroad, started the project in 1874 and subsequently endured an extended lawsuit, several failures of the tunnel wall, and an exhaustion of funds before quitting in 1887 with only 1,600 feet completed.
Two years later, a British team took up the project only to be halted in 1891 by a financial crisis, just 1,600 feet short of completion. William G. McAdoo, a Southern attorney who later served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Woodrow Wilson, finally completed the tunneling project. McAdoo later added another tunnel, extended the rail line into upper Manhattan, and helped connect its 33rd Street station, later known as Pennsylvania Station, with commercial real-estate development.
Facts
-The Hudson and Manhattan tunnel was the first large transportation tunnel constructed under a major river in the United States. A bridge connecting Manhattan and New Jersey was considered a more tenuous possibility because the Hudson River's bottom was known to consist solely of deep mud in some places.
DeWitt Haskin's work plan involved sealing the tunnel and filling it with 35 pounds of air pressure to expel water and hold the tunnel's iron-plate liners in place. Workers entered through a concrete wall equipped with an air lock. Unfortunately, the compressed air could not keep the tunnel walls sealed, and blow-outs occurred in 1880 and 1882, flooding the work site.
- A British engineer, Sir Thomas Cochrane, used compressed air in devising the first pneumatic caisson -- or air-tight chamber -- in 1830. In the early 1870s, James Buchanan Eads used pneumatic caissons in constructing the foundations for his celebrated Eads Bridge crossing the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.
- The British team adapted technology used in the 1860s construction of London's subway by combining a shield to support the tunnel walls with Haskin's application of pneumatic pressure to the work face. The Greathead shield, named after its designer, has served as a prototype for all subsequent tunneling equipment.
- William McAdoo recommenced work in 1902, hiring Charles Jacobs as his chief engineer. Jacobs had built the first underwater tunnel in the city, an eight-foot-diameter bore for gas mains under the East River. Before completing the tunnel, the pair encountered solid rock that took 11 months of careful blasting to excavate.
- The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company formed the basis for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) system in northeastern New Jersey and Manhattan that today extends 14 miles, includes 13 stations, and serves more than 200,000 passengers a day.
Resources
Anthony Fitzherbert, William G. McAdoo and the Hudson Tubes; Electric Railroaders Association, 1964
Brian J. Cudahy, Rails Under the Mighty Hudson; Stephen Greene Press, 1975
Engineering News-Record, "125 Years in ENR History" (1999)
Paul Carleton, The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Revisited; D. Carleton Railbooks, 1990
S. D. V. Burr, Tunneling Under the Hudson River, John Wiley & Sons, 1885.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Poids en ordre de marche : 22 100 kg
Travaux de collecte et transfert des eaux de source du Reclus, Nabécor et du jardin botanique.
Démolition de la résidence pour personnes âgées Anatole-France qui enjambé la rue Anatole France au Havre.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Normandie
Département : Seine-Maritime (76)
Ville : Le Havre (76600)
Adresses : rue Anatole France / rue Raspail
Fonction : Logements
Déconstruction : juin 2021 → septembre 2021
Niveaux : R+6
Hauteur : ≈23,00 m
The cofferdam for the new fishing pier is in situ ready for concrete filling in late December 2015.
Camera: Olympus FE-120 digital compact.
Construction de l'ensemble immobilier Les Rivages composé de 4 bâtiments pour 98 logements en accession à la propriété et d’une résidence services seniors de 115 logements.
Le projet se situe sur l'ancien site des Entreprises Jules Kronberg (négociant en charbon). Quelques éléments seront conservés comme la cheminée d'une hauteur de 38 mètres ainsi qu’un bâtiment situé sur le bord du boulevard Lobau.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : 45, boulevard Lobau
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 2021 → 2022
► Architecte : Malot & Associés
► Gros œuvre : WIG France
► PC n° 54 395 19 R0067 délivré le 11/10/2019
Niveaux : R+6
Hauteur : 25,00 m
Surface de plancher : 12 989 m²
Superficie du terrain : 5 610 m²
Réalisation d'un centre thermal et aquatique comprenant des espaces de stationnement et une résidence hôtelière dans le cadre du projet Grand Nancy Thermal.
• Réhabilitation et extension de la piscine intérieure.
• Réhabilitation et extension du bâtiment de la piscine ronde.
• Création de nouveaux bassins extérieurs.
• Création d'espaces verts et de stationnements (découverts et souterrains).
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : rue du Maréchal Juin
Fonction : Piscine
Construction : 2020 → 2023
• Architecte : Architectures Anne Démians / Chabanne & Partenaires
PC n° 54 395 19 R0043 délivré le 20 septembre 2019
Niveaux : R+3
Hauteur maximale : 26.66 m
Surface de plancher totale : 16 547 m²
Superficie du terrain : 37 248 m²
Démolition de l'ancienne CNS à Luxembourg Ville.
Pays : Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Ville : Luxembourg Ville (L-1218)
Quartier : Hollerich
Adresse : 125, route d'Esch
Fonction : Administration
Construction : 1982
Déconstruction : 2023 → 2024
SHON : 12 500 m²
Travaux de terrassement dans le cadre du projet Les Rives du Parc à Talange sur le site d'une ancienne friche industrielle.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Alsace)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Talange (57525)
Adresse : rue de Metz
Visiting students from the South China University of Technology in a joint program with the University of Houston, photographed at the Cullen College of Engineering on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019.
The photograph documents the construction of the New Bridge, facing Bede Industrial estate. It was taken some time between the 15th October 1981 to the 10 August 1982.
The images are taken from a collection of black and white contact prints. The images document the development of the whole of the Metro system in South Tyneside.
The images are taken from the Mott, Hay and Anderson collection, consulting civil engineers responsible from the Tyneside Metro light rail system and the Tyne Pedestrian, cyclist and vehicular tunnels.
The photographers were Milbanke and Proudlock Fotographics Ltd.
Reference no. DT.MHA/20/B707/8
This image inspired ‘Interchange’, an experimental film and album of music by Warm Digits. More information can be found here www.twmuseums.org.uk/halfmemory/warm-digits-
interchange
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Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss CommunicationsCivil Engineering labs. Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications
Technical drawing: Details of one deck plate girder span, standard railroad bridge. Photo by Pennsylvania State College, Civil Engineering Dept., 1903.
Repository: Penn State Special Collections, University Park, PA, USA.
Looking for this photo at the Penn State Special Collections? You’ll find it in the Pennsylvania Bridges Collection, Box 1 [Item 5327]