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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.
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.
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
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]
(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.
Poids en ordre de marche : 58 400 kg
Hauteur de travail : 22 m
Restructuration de l'ancien Hôpital Villemin en une résidence intergénérationnelle de 82 logements.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : rue de Nabécor
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 2025 → 2026
▻ Architecte : GHA ARCHITECTES
Permis de construire n° PC 54 395 24 00041
▻ Délivré le 24/07/2024
Niveaux : R+4
Hauteur : ≈16,00 m
Surface de plancher existante : 4 821,50 m²
Surface de plancher créée : 849 m²
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.
U.S. Air Force Civil Engineering Airmen from the 165th Airlift Wing, conduct route clearance in Seminole County, Ga., Oct. 14, 2018. The Georgia Air National Guard has been working with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency conducting route clearance and debris removal. (U.S. Air National photo by Tech. Sgt. Amber Williams)
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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Transformation du Grand Hôtel de la Reine dans le Pavillon Alliot en hôtel 5 étoiles.
Le projet comprend la reprise des fondations, la restauration des façades, ainsi qu'un réaménagement de l'intérieur et la création d’un spa.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Centre
Adresse : place Stanislas
Construction : 1751 → 1755
▻ Architecte : Emmanuel Héré
Rénovation : 2024 → 2026
▻ Architectes : Pierre-Yves Caillaut ACMH / L'Atelier DH
Autorisation de travaux n° AC 054 395 23 00017
▻ Délivrée le 14/09/2023
Permis de démolir n° PD 054 395 23 00039
▻ Délivré le 03/01/2024
Déclaration préalable n° DP 054 395 23 01660
▻ Délivré le 15/01/2024
Permis de construire n° PC 054 395 23 00051
▻ Délivré le 24/01/2024
Niveaux : R+2
Hauteur : 21,66 m
Surface de plancher totale : 4 570 m²
▻ Surface de plancher avant travaux : 8 652 m²
Superficie du terrain : 1 165 m²
This photograph shows a group entering a Metro Shaft. 18th December 1974.
This image is from a series documenting the sinking of shafts at Sandyford Road and Forth Banks sites and excavation of the Jesmond and Haymarket drives leading from these shafts.
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 Turners (Photography) Ltd of 7-15 Pink Lane, Newcastle.
Reference no. DT.MHA/17/1/J1134/7
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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Poids en ordre de marche : 44 600 kg
Déconstruction complète de plusieurs bâtiments sur le site de l'îlot Bragui.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meuse (55)
Villes : Commercy (55200)
Adresse : 47, place Charles de Gaulle
Déconstruction : 2024 → 2025
Permis de démolir n° 55 122 24 00002
▻ Délivré le 29/04/2024
Surface de plancher : 2 222 m²
Superficie du terrain : 748 m²
Travaux de développement et d'interconnexion des réseaux de chauffage urbain de la Métropole du Grand Nancy.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy (54500)
Testing for the workability of fresh concrete- slump test. Conical mould 100mm diameter 200mm diameter 300mm high is filled with cement.
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
For students working in the School of Engineering’s two structural testing labs, a multi-ton concrete column exploding into rubble means failure — and success.
“Formulas can be easily forgotten,” says Matt O’Reilly, assistant professor of civil engineering. “The bang of a beam failing stays in the mind a little better.”
In the spacious new lab, which opened a year ago in KU’s West District, students can test larger and stronger pieces, which they build from concrete and steel, than ever before.
“It’s the higher education version of playing with LEGOs,” says O’Reilly, “all for the benefit of our nation’s infrastructure.”
On Thursday, Sep. 23, Louisville District Commander Col. Eric Crispino talked to University of Louisville senior civil engineering students about the mission of the Corps of Engineers. Engineering Division is continuing its partnership with the UofL Civil Engineering Department to offer technical presentations each semester. The presentations serve as an excellent recruiting opportunity and additional talks are scheduled for October and November. ( by Monica Greenwell).
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
• Gros œuvre : Bouygues Construction
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
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A long exposure shot from early in the year at Marsden, West Yorkshire. The canal goes under the Pennines here, emerging at Diggle near Oldham.
Compacting under slab hardcore, with diesel driven vibrating plate compactor. Hardcore is applied and compacted in layers until required level is established.
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
Construction du Collège Niki-de-Saint-Phalle qui aura une capacité comprise entre 400 et 480 élèves. Il entre dans le Plan Collèges Nouvelles Générations lancé en 2012 par le Conseil départemental.
Le bâtiment aura une ossature en bois de conception bioclimatique avec une isolation en paille. L'extérieur sera habillé avec de l'acier perforé de couleur noir, des panneaux photovoltaïques seront installés en toiture.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : rue Michel Dinet / rue École de Nancy
Fonction : Éducation
Construction : 2020 → 2022
► Architecte : MU Architecture
► PC n° 54 395 19 R0071 délivré le 2/12/2019
Niveaux : R+4
Hauteur maximale : 18,90 m
Surface de plancher totale : 3 891 m²
Superficie du terrain : 4 890 m²
ca. 1991, Pakistan --- Tarbela Dam, along the Indus River, rises 148 meters high and is 2743 meters in length. Completed in 1977, the embankment contains 126,151,570 cubic meters of earth and rock, the largest volume ever used in a structure of its kind. Pakistan. --- Image by © Christine Osborne/CORBIS
The Unted States funds large-scale energy projects that will provide electricity to an estimated two million households by 2013.
Key projects:
- Renovating the power plant at the Tarbela Dam
- Modernizing the generators at the Mangla Dam
- Upgrading the Guddu, Jamshoro, and Muzaffaragarh power plants
- Building the Satpara and Gomal Zam dams
The City of Hoover has seen enormous growth in its sports programs over the past 10 years and needed a new complex that would fulfill their existing needs, allow for growth and give the City the ability to create new revenue streams and take advantage of sports tourism by hosting large tournament events. Hoover had not built any new athletic facilities in 15 years. At the same time the City’s sports participation had increased by multiples of 200% - 500% depending on the sport. The growth was caused by increases in both youth and adult sports leagues, as well as the relatively recent popularity of additional sports.
The multi-purpose Finley Center, which connects to the existing Hoover Met baseball stadium with a covered walkway, is able to accommodate a full-size football or soccer field, nine regulation-size basketball courts, 12 regulation-size volleyball courts or six indoor tennis courts. It can also seat 2,400 for banquets and 5,000 for events with general seating, such as a graduation ceremony or concert. Additional features of the indoor facility include a recreational walking track suspended 14 feet in the air, an athletic training and rehab center, and a food court.
The Finley Center sits on a 120 acre site that GMC master planned and includes fields for soccer, lacrosse, football, baseball and softball, tennis courts, a play ground walking track and splash pad.
Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood (GMC) provided master planning, architecture, interior design, civil engineering, construction materials testing, and environmental engineering services for this project.
The Coastal Carolina University Softball and Baseball Complex project by Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood consists of demolition and replacement of the current stadium in an effort to achieve the Chanticleer program’s goal of providing top-rate facilities for student athletes that emulate the “Coastal” feeling.
Improvements include new team facilities, recessed dugouts, 2,500-spectator seating capacity, restrooms, full-service concessions, novelty sales area, press box with work space for media personnel, premium box and suite areas, clubhouse and locker room for athletes along with coaches and umpires and potential upgrades to the lights, scoreboard and existing landscape.
This facility was designed in collaboration with Populous.
Compacting under slab hardcore with diesel driven vibrating plate compactor. Whilst operational, plate compactors are easily maneuvered and operated.
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Author: Loughborough University