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Travaux de renouvellement du site propre du trolley à Nancy dans le cadre des aménagements pour la ligne 1 du trolley.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Ouest
Adresse : avenue du XXᵉ Corps
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
Advanced Highway Maintenance and Construction Technology (AHMCT) Research Center. (Josh Moy/UC Davis)
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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 : 5 470 kg
Capacité du godet : 0,90 m³
Travaux sur le réseau de chauffage urbain dans le quartier Saint-Pierre, René II, Bonsecours.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Saint-Pierre, René II, Bonsecours
Adresse : rue Molitor
Poids en ordre de marche : 22 100 kg
Travaux de collecte et transfert des eaux de source du Reclus, Nabécor et du jardin botanique.
Loughborough University Business School site
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Author: Loughborough University
Great Falls, Virginia
Constructed between 1785 and 1802.
These canals and locks are a part of the first extensive system of canal and river navigation works undertaken in the United States. The idea for the canal was proposed by George Washington, when, as an engineer, surveyor and military emissary for Virginia, he saw the need for a trade route west beyond the Allegheny Mountains. In order to do create this route, it was necessary to try to tame the Potomac River which was a wild, unruly stream which only the hardiest of rivermen ever attempted. To this end, he successfully gained the approval of both the Virginia and Maryland legislatures to charter the Potowmack Canal Company in 1785. Washington served as first president of the company from 1785 to 1789. He resigned this position when he became President of the United States.
To tame the Potomac, they cleared the bed of its greatest obstructions; and, where insurmountable falls and rapids occurred, they bypassed them by building fringing canals. The greatest impediment to navigation of the Potomac was at Great Falls where the river plunges 76 feet downward on its course to tidewater. To overcome this impediment, a canal was devised that was three quarters of a mile length, a major part of its 76-foot descent was achieved in five sets of stone locks located at the lower end of the channel.
The five locks were each 100 feet long and walled with large blocks of handhewn Seneca sandstone. The total lift was 77 feet. Features of the works are considered outstanding for its time. They included butterfly valves in miter, or 45-degree angled, gates, contiguous locks and a separate supply basin for the larger capacity lower locks.
Resource
Torres-Reyes, Ricardo. Potowmack Company Canal and Locks, Great Falls, Virginia; Historic Structures Report. Washington, DC: Division of History, U.S. Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, 1970.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Binh Pham '13 at right, helps kids, left to right, Nicholas Hamel, 5th grade at Easton Middle School, left, Jonathan Rivera and Chris Toh, all 4th graders at Palmer, add weight to their bridge. In back at left is Becky Rolwood '14 and at right Stephanie Silva '13.
Ken White / Zovko Photographic, LLC
October 26, 2011
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
Poids en ordre de marche : 15 900 kg
Travaux de collecte et transfert des eaux de source du Reclus, Nabécor et du jardin botanique.
CSU's ASCE Concrete Canoe Team hosts the Rocky Mountain Regional competition at Horsetooth Reservoir. April 5, 2014
Binh Pham '13 at right, helps kids, left to right, Nicholas Hamel, 5th grade at Easton Middle School, left, Jonathan Rivera and Chris Toh, all 4th graders at Palmer, add weight to their bridge. In back at left is Becky Rolwood '14 and at right Stephanie Silva '13.
Ken White / Zovko Photographic, LLC
October 26, 2011
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
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- Master Sgt. Arturo Quinones, 577th Expeditionary Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force Squadron, NCOIC of special capabilities, marks off a day’s worth of runway requiring rubber removal at Forward Operating Base Shank, here June 5, 2013. Runway maintenance is a composite team built from many civil engineering backgrounds. Quinones, hailing from San Antonio, Texas, is an electrician by trade.
(U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Ben Bloker)
Marble plaque to commemorate the completion of the Happy Valley Waterworks (H.V.W.W.) consisting of the construction of the Clarendon Weir, Clarendon Weir to Happy Valley Pipeline and Happy Valley Reservoir in 1896. HV Reservoir was constructed by building a dam across the Field River and the Clarendon Weir by building a weir across the Onkaparinga River. The CW to HV Pipeline project includes an underground inlet tunnel 5 km in length and 3 m in diameter through the westernmost range of the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges. This tunnel is considered a 'milestone in constructional challenges and advancement' by Heritage Australia.
The HV Reservoir was constructed on the site of a small rural town, Happy Valley, which was rebuilt some 4 km east of its original location. The cemetery and school were also relocated. Since 1962, the HV Reservoir has also been serviced by the Myponga to Happy Valley pipeline.
Mount Bold Reservoir, SA's largest reservoir, was built on the Onkaparinga River upstream of the Clarendon Weir in 1937. In 1973 the Murray Bridge to Onkaparinga River Pipeline was completed to transport water from the River Murray to the Onkaparinga.
Today, except for a small trickle, the entire water capacity of the Onkaparinga River is diverted to the HV Reservoir, placing severe stress on the fish habitat and ecosystem downstream including in the Onkaparinga River National Park through high levels of salinity and siltation.
The inscription on the plaque reads:
H. V. W. W.
1896
Carter Gummow & Co.
Contractors
Hon. J. G. Jenkins
Commissioner of Waterworks
The plaque's preservation is probably due to its well hidden location behind high SA Water fine-mesh fencing where the pipeline enters the underground tunnel. (The plaque is on a slope and I had to balance on the edge of the fencing which is too fine to grip, so frame, climb, balance, click, jump for each attempt... My assistant thought I was very silly ;-)
Carter Gummow & Co. was founded by Frank Moorhouse Gummow and participated in the following water engineering projects:
Annandale Sewer Aqueducts over Johnston's Creek and White's Creek, Annandale, Sydney NSW, 1896
Morell Bridge over the Yarra River in South Yarra, Melbourne VIC, 1899
North Richmond Bridge over the Hawkesbury River at North Richmond, NSW, 1905
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
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!
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
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.
Travaux de renouvellement du site propre du trolley à Nancy dans le cadre des aménagements pour la ligne 1 du trolley.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartiers : Nancy Centre
Adresses : avenue Foch / place de la république
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- Blackened rubbery foam flies off an angle brush from a Tool Cat piloted by Senior Airman Jessie Rivera, 577th Expeditionary Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force Squadron, on a runway at Forward Operating Base Shank here June 5, 2013. Runway maintenance is a composite team built from many civil engineering backgrounds. Rivera, hailing from Denver, Colo., is an electrical power production technician by trade. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Ben Bloker)
Loughborough University Business School site
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Author: Loughborough University
This photograph shows the lowering of the upper half of a running tunnel shield in to position on the Forth Banks Site, 6th February 1975.
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.
Reference no. DT.MHA/17/1/K219/30
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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