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This photograph shows the construction of the Tyne Dock Metro station.
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/B719/82
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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Loughborough University Business School site constructing reinforced concrete columns
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Author: Loughborough University
Poids en ordre de marche : 15 900 kg
Travaux de collecte et transfert des eaux de source du Reclus, Nabécor et du jardin botanique.
Loughborough University Business School site constructing upper floor reinforced concrete columns
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Author: Loughborough University
Poids en ordre de marche : 23 600 - 25 100 kg
Déconstruction d'une maison d'habitation, de 2 hangars ainsi qu'un poste de transformation électrique en vue de la construction de l'Institut Jean Lamour sur le campus ARTEM (anciennes casernes Molitor et Manutention).
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : 250, avenue du Général Leclerc
Fonction : Logement
Construction : ≈1905
Déconstruction : 2012
• Entreprise : Cardem
Niveaux : R+1
Hauteur : ≈10.00 m
SHON : 620m²
Dr. Jeffrey Siegel, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin displays equations relating to the ideal gas law in office.
Dr. Siegel recently received the Early Career Award from the International Society of Exposure Analysis to research the efficacy of particle removal in ion air purification devices.
His research interests include design of energy-efficient buildings, indoor air quality, and indoor particle dynamics. He is currently interested in resuspension of particles from building surfaces, protecting buildings.
Footbridge, completed May 2007. Client: Bedford Borough Council. Wilikinson Eyre Architects. Structural Engineer: Jan Bobrowski & Partners
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
â–º Gros Å“uvre : 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
CSU's ASCE Concrete Canoe Team hosts the Rocky Mountain Regional competition at Horsetooth Reservoir. April 5, 2014
Loughborough University Business School site
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Author: Loughborough University
Cohasset, Massachusetts
Constructed 1855-1860
Minot's Ledge is a wave-swept rock formation in a rocky area of ocean about a mile off the Cohasset shore near Boston. Numerous serious shipwrecks prompted the government to erect a beacon there, and construction began in the summer of 1847.
The light, constructed on tall iron legs, was put into operation on January 1, 1850. Designers believed that the water would flow freely through the legs, leaving the lighthouse intact. But a terrible winter storm toppled it in 1851, killing the two assistant keepers.
The replacement lighthouse, built of granite blocks between 1855 and 1860, still stands. Considerable foundation preparation along the narrow ledge of rock secures the base of the lighthouse. Interlocking granite blocks provide stability against raging Atlantic storms.
Facts
The first task in building the new lighthouse was to remove the pilings from the first lighthouse and insert a new iron framework into the remaining piling holes. The new framework was intended to anchor the stone masonry to the rock ledge. The work was done over the period April 1 through September 15, 1855. In January 1856, a violent Atlantic storm blew the New Empire into the piling, completely destroying framework.
- Over a three-year period, a circular base, 30 feet in diameter, was excavated into Minots Ledge rock. New dowels nearly 25 feet high, or as high as the 12th course of granite masonry were anchored into the rock.
- Three things were necessary, a perfectly smooth sea, a dead calm, and low spring tides. This could only occur six times during any one lunation, three at full moon and three at the change, said Captain Barton Stone Alexander. During 1855, only 130 hours of work could be performed at sea; in 1856, 157 hours; in 1857, 130 hours; and in 1858, 208 hours.
- Samples of granite from many locations were submitted and tested, but granite from Quincy was deemed to be the best. Over 3500 tons of rough Quincy granite were delivered to Cohasset.
- Captain John Cook, a master seaman and rigger, devised the model for the derrick that was used to lift the massive granite blocks onto the lighthouse.
- Each stone was hand chiseled in an interlocking dovetailed pattern so that it fit perfectly with its neighboring stones and those above and below it. A total of 1079 stones were crafted, weighing a total of over 2350 tons. The blocks for each course were fitted together on shore to assure perfect fit before being transported to the Ledge.
- It was July 1857 before the laying of stone could commence, and another year before the underwater construction work was completed. Once the stonework was above the tidal range, construction proceeded more rapidly.
- The total cost was approximately $300,000.
- Captain Barton Stone Alexander, a United States Military Academy graduate with the United States Corps of Engineers, was chosen to develop and finalize the design and oversee construction.
- The lighthouse has withstood every gale since 1860. The strongest waves cause nothing by a strong vibration. On some occasions the seas have actually swept over the top of the structure with no more damage than that caused by a few leaky windows.
Resources
Snow, Edward Rowe. The Story of Minot's Light. Boston, Massachusetts: Yankee Publishing Company, 1940.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Foundation and ground floor slab construction. A ready mixed concrete wagon refills the concrete pump to continue pouring the floor. The concrete gang prepares to finish off the last but one bay of the slab.
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Author: Loughborough University
Engineering & Computing Building at Coventry University. Main Entrance and view to the basement labs.
Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
Completed 1900
It is no disparagement to other mountain railroads to say that the construction of the White Pass. Yukon is among the most brilliant feats of railroad engineering, in view of the tremendous difficulties to be encountered and the shortness of time in which the work was done.
- Victoria Colonist, British Columbia, 1990
Combining British financing, American engineering, and Canadian contracting, the White Pass and Yukon was the first major civil engineering project on the continent above the 60th degree of northern latitude. Completed in 27 months using only hand tools, black powder, and regional timber, the White Pass and Yukon rises almost 2,900 feet from sea level at the port of Skagway to the White Pass summit on the U.S.-Canada border in just 20 miles, accomplishing one of the steepest climbs of any railroad in the world.
Built for approximately $10 million to promote the Klondike Gold Rush around the turn of the century, the 110-mile narrow-gauge railway remained an important part of the mining industry - transporting gold, silver, copper and lead ore from Canadian mines across the coastal mountain range to Alaskan ports - until it was closed during a period of low metal prices in 1982. The railway found new life six years later as a thriving excursion line serving the cruise-ship industry.
Facts
- The White Pass and Yukon follows a path originally laid out by George Brackett, a former construction engineer on the Northern Pacific Railroad who built a 12-mile toll road into the mountains in 1897. Brackett's right-of-way was purchased in 1898 by the White Pass and Yukon for $60,000.
- At the height of its operations, the White Pass and Yukon also ran passenger and freight docks at the port of Skagway, a fleet of Yukon River steamboats, a passenger-bus service north of Whitehorse, a frontier airline, and several hotels.
During World War II, the railway played an essential role in transporting laborers and materials to build the 1,520-mile-long Alaska Highway, considered an essential transportation link for troops and equipment to Alaska and northwest Canada during World War II.
Resources
Graham Wilson, The White Pass and Yukon Route Railway; Wolf Creek Books, 1998
Stan Cohen, The White Pass & Yukon Route, Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1996.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Poids en ordre de marche : 53 100 - 57 400 kg
Construction du FM Science and Technology Center Europe à Luxembourg Ville.
Pays : Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Ville : Luxembourg Ville (L-2557)
Quartier : Gasperich
Adresse : 5, rue Robert Stumper
Fonction : Éducation
Construction : 2024 → 2027
â–» Architecte : Fabeck Architectes
Niveaux max. : R+3
Hauteur max. : ≈16,00 m
Surface de plancher : 27 200 m²
Adjacent to Victoria Falls, border of Zimbabwe and Zambia
Completed 1905
Build the bridge across the Zambezi where the trains as they pass will catch the spray from the Falls.
- Cecil Rhodes, former governor of Rhodesia (today the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe), as quoted in The Great Zambezi Bridge by Chief Engineer G.A. Hobson (1922)
In 1904, workers for South African Railways had laid more than 1,600 miles of track on the "Cape to Cairo" route proposed by British administrator and financier Cecil Rhodes - who hoped one day to run tracks the length of the African continent, from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt. When the railway builders reached majestic Victoria Falls, they began construction in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. Set in a remote section of the African rain forest, Victoria Falls stretches nearly a mile across the Zambezi River, which forms the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, before dropping more than 400 feet into a deep gorge.
Adjacent to Victoria Falls, border of Zimbabwe and Zambia
Completed 1905
"Build the bridge across the Zambezi where the trains as they pass will catch the spray from the Falls."
- Cecil Rhodes, former governor of Rhodesia (today the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe), as quoted in The Great Zambezi Bridge by Chief Engineer G.A. Hobson (1922)
In 1904, workers for South African Railways had laid more than 1,600 miles of track on the "Cape to Cairo" route proposed by British administrator and financier Cecil Rhodes - who hoped one day to run tracks the length of the African continent, from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt. When the railway builders reached majestic Victoria Falls, they began construction in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. Set in a remote section of the African rain forest, Victoria Falls stretches nearly a mile across the Zambezi River, which forms the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, before dropping more than 400 feet into a deep gorge.
The Victoria Falls Bridge - built just downstream from the falls and supported by a parabolic arch spanning 500 feet - was fashioned from materials shipped on the rail line and transported across the gorge by cableway. Completed in just 14 months, the Victoria Falls Bridge opened Zambia's copper fields in particular, and central Africa in general, to modern-day transportation and commerce.
Facts
- British explorer David Livingstone first came upon the falls of the Zambezi River in 1855 and named them for Queen Victoria. The billowing mist and echoing roar of the falls -- which, during the rainy season, can be seen and heard as far away as 25 miles -- were known by the Kololo natives in the region as "Mosi-oa-Tunya," or "The Smoke that Thunders."
- Owned originally by Rhodesia Railways, Victoria Falls Bridge is now jointly owned by the national railways of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Formerly known as Northern Rhodesia, Zambia has been an independent republic of the British Commonwealth since 1964. Southern Rhodesia became known as Zimbabwe after adopting majority rule in 1979.
- Victoria Falls Bridge measures 650 feet in total length and stands 400 feet above the river, nearly 3,000 feet above sea level. Construction was accomplished by building anchored cantilevers from the edges of the gorge toward the center.
- Built to carry two railway lines, the bridge was reconfigured in 1929, when the deck by was widened by 13 feet and raised by nearly five feet, to accommodate a single rail line, two automobile lanes, and two pedestrian sidewalks.
- In the years after Southern Rhodesia declared independence in 1970, negotiations to urge the creation of a majority-ruled government took place in a railroad car parked on Victoria Falls Bridge. This spot was chosen because it was equally accessible from the borders of both Southern Rhodesia and Zambia.
- Victoria Falls Bridge has been cited for its elegance of design and responsiveness to a natural setting as well as its practical application. According to the International Section of the American Society of Civil Engineering, the bridge "embodies the best abilities of the engineer to enhance the beauty of nature rather than detract from it."
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
The slump is the difference in height between the height of the mould and the highest point of the concrete being tested.
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Author: Loughborough University
The 66th Civil Engineering Division worked to plow roads, parking lots, and sidewalks during and after a snow storm that impacted the region.
Although the branch-proper of the Wye Valley Railway (WVR) began at Wye Valley Junction, I include the following photos of the railway around Chepstow for posterity, for naturally trains ran into or through Chepstow to terminate. Seen from Beachley Lane overbridge (ST540941), view SW from England into Wales, Gloucestershire into Monmouthshire, of the South Wales Main Line, and the A48 bypass bridge which, I believe, opened in 1987. Previously all traffic went via Tutshill and over the old 1816 bridge into Chepstow. The rail bridge to the left is the 1962 remodelling of Brunel's famous (if rather ugly) 1852 tubular suspension bridge, a design he adapted for the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash. The piers are the original. Apparently, the bed of the road bridge is one continuous slab of concrete!
Déconstruction de 6 garages rue Boulay de la Meurthe, d'annexes du 50, avenue du Général Leclerc ainsi que du mur de clôture sur le boulevard de l'insurrection du Ghetto de Varsovie.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Centre
Adresse : 31, rue Boulay de la Meurthe
Fonction : Garages
Déconstruction : 2021
► Entreprise : Xardel Démolition
► Permis de démolir n° 54 395 20 R0009 délivré le 16/11/2020
464-466 Collins Street, Melbourne CBD, site of the Collins House project.
Soon to be a 195-metre high tower, 12 metres wide, of more than 260 apartments over 57 (60) floors.
Completion date given is 2018.
Fun for the engineers.
They did well with the construction by Equiset in 2012 of the ultra-thin Phoenix building - the Blue Squiggle building (my term) - at 82 Flinders Street, just 6.7 metres wide, about 24 metres deep and 130 metres high, regarded at the time as being "on the edge of structural stability", to quote Walking Melbourne.
The view here is from St James Lane to the original Collins Street façade, which is to be retained, and enhanced.
The opening is to be filled with concrete precast segments with use of the blue gantry crane. The other side (North Side) of the bridge is completed. The deck that I was standing on is pretty much completed too, the middle was still empty! Installation of precast segments would take 3 weeks to 2 months each!
Poids en ordre de marche : 50 100 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
Power floating concrete floor slab. A flooring contractor uses a hand held power-floating machine to provide a flat, uniform finish to a concrete floor slab.
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Author: Loughborough University