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A group of civil engineering students from Oregon State University visited with some of our Oregon DOT engineers in Salem. One activity was building toothpick and gumdrop bridges.
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.
Hop-up beside a cavity wall construction
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Author: Loughborough University
Cavity wall construction at roof level containing roof trusses, gabble, wall plate, soldier course, building tools
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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
New York, New York
Completed May 1883
On May 24, 1883, with schools and businesses closed for the occasion, New York celebrated the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. Also known as the Great East River Bridge, it was built over 14 years in the face of enormous difficulties. Deaths, fire in the Brooklyn caisson, and a scandal over inferior materials all added to the turmoil. The bridge is one of the most well-recognized symbols of American engineering, and remains the unofficial Eighth Wonder of the World.
John A. Roebling designed the bridge, but died before construction began. His son Washington Roeblingwas then appointed chief engineer, but became ill during construction; so his wife Emily Roeblingtook on some of his duties. It is possible the bridge would not have been completed without her meticulous efforts in inspection and management.
Facts
- The suspension system was initially designed in iron, but was changed to steel to reduce the dead load weight.
- The bridge's 1,595.5-foot span broke all world records for span length.
- The 276.5-foot towers took three years to complete and were higher than New York's tallest office building.
This was the first time that galvanized steel wire was used in cable construction. The four cables are each nearly 16 inches in diameter and each contains over 5,000 galvanized steel, oil-coated wires.
- "To guard against vertical and horizontal oscillations and to ensure that degree of stiffness in the flooring which is absolutely necessary to meet the effects of violent gales in such an exposed situation, I have provided six lines of trusses." John Roebling, 1854, Brooklyn Bridge proposal.
- Men known as Cable-spinners would use a four-foot-wide swaying catwalk to supervise workers as they inserted wires into the cables.
- The deck was originally divided to provide two elevated railroad tracks, two trolley car tracks, a single-lane road, and a 15-foot-wide walkway.
Resources
- Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965, 1979)
- David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972; paperback edition by Avon Books in 1976).
- Dogancay, Burhan, Bridge of Dreams : The Rebirth of the Brooklyn Bridge
McCullough, David, The Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1983, Simon & Schuster.
- Pascoe, Elaine, The Brooklyn Bridge (Building America), 1999, Blackbirch Marketing.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Reilly Contractors project for our client involved the extension of an existing sewer main to service a newly created subdivision.
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.
Pennsylvania/Maryland border to the Maryland/Delaware border
Surveyed 1763-1767
The granite milestones marking the Mason-Dixon Line bear crests from the two parties involved in the land-grant dispute, the families of William Penn and Charles Calvert (also known as Lord Baltimore).
What is now generally referred to as the Mason-Dixon Line was established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 as a demarcation between slave and free territories. But that important geographic border took its name from a previous Mason-Dixon Line; one established more than 50 years earlier to formally separate Maryland from Pennsylvania and Delaware. The two Englishmen for whom the line is named accomplished one of the greatest surveying achievements of early America.
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were both assistants to astronomer James Bradley at the Royal Conservatory at Greenwich. They were brought to America to settle a border dispute between the inheritors of the land grants establishing Maryland and Pennsylvania. Taking into account the curvature of the earth, the pair carried out extremely precise measurements using astronomical tables and angles based on circular arcs. Their method quickly became the basis for establishing other town and state boundaries, as well as the U.S.-Canada border.
Facts
Mason and Dixon made use of relatively simple tools in carrying out their calculations. These include an instrument known as a zenith sector, made by an expert clock maker; a navigator's quadrant; a direction transit; an astronomical clock; wooden rods 16.5 feet long and equipped with spirit levels; and 66-foot chains.
The granite milestones marking the Mason-Dixon Line bear crests from the two parties involved in the land-grant dispute, the families of both William Penn and Charles Calvert, also known as Lord Baltimore.
The association of the Mason-Dixon Line with the border between the North and the South in the Civil War has led some to believe that "Dixie," a common nickname for the South, refers to the distinction drawn by the line. More reliable sources, however, trace the origins of "Dixie," and "Dixieland," to the use of French currency in the early 18th century in New Orleans -- in many ways the capital of the South before the Civil War -- where "dix," the French word for "ten," was printed on ten-dollar bills.
Resources
- Edwin Danson, Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America; John Wiley & Sons, 2000, ISBN 0471385026
- Thomas Pynchon, Mason and Dixon; Henry Holt and Company, 1997, ISBN 0805037586
- William Ecenberger, Walkin' the Line: A journey from Past to Present along the Mason-Dixon; M. Evans, 2000, ISBN 0871319101
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Poids en ordre de marche : 41 095 - 55 965 kg
Hauteur de travail : 22,20 m
Déconstruction de l'ancien Siège de la CIC à Laxou.
Anciens noms : Ancien siège de la Société Nancéienne de Crédit Industriel Varin-Bernier (SNVB-CIC)
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Laxou (54520)
Quartier : Plateau de la Sapinière
Adresse : 2, rue de la Vezouze
Fonction : Bureaux
Déconstruction : 2020
► Entreprise : Melchiorre Démolition
Permis de démolir n° 054 304 19 00001 délivré le 03/11/2019
Niveaux : R+4
Hauteur : ≈25.00 m
Surface de plancher : 11 339 m²
Fall restraint bags ,should one of the men fall during the unloading of the concrete sections these bags will prevent a serious injury
Déconstruction d'un bâtiment boulevard Jean Jaures à Tomblaine.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Tomblaine (54270)
Adresse : boulevard Jean Jaures
Fonction : Logements
Déconstruction : 2021
Niveaux : R+2
Hauteur : ≈12,00 m
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 mid-transfer deck coffee shop is gone, leaving nothing but a discoloured patch and a waifed sign
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
Adresses : rue Pierre Semard / rue Saint-Jean / rue Saint Georges
Poids en ordre de marche : 31 800 - 33 800 kg
Déconstruction du bâtiment Jean Monnet construit entre 1968 et 1970 à Luxembourg-Ville. Il abritait des services de la Commission européenne.
Pays : Luxembourg🇱🇺
Ville : Luxembourg-Ville (L-1336)
Quartier : Kirchberg
Adresse : boulevard de Kockelschaeuer
Fonction : Bureaux
Déconstruction : 2018 → 2019
► Entreprise : Xardel Démolition
Niveaux max. : R+4
Hauteur max. : ≈22.00 m
Evenement van de vereniging Historisch Grondverzet op zandput 'Eeltjemeer' bij Oudkerk in Friesland.
Poids en ordre de marche : 14 400 - 18 300 kg
Construction d'un bâtiment à usage de restauration rapide à la place d'anciennes concessions à Laxou.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Laxou (54520)
Quartier : Plateau de la Sapinière
Adresse : 21, avenue de la Résistance
Fonction : Commerces
Construction : 2021
► Architecte : Philippe Klein Architecte
► PC n° 54 304 20 N0011 délivré le 01/02/2021
Hauteur : 6.94 m
Surface de plancher : 421.51 m²
Superficie du terrain : 3 618 m²
Easton, Pennsylvania to Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Completed 1896
"The cantilever pattern has been adopted, which will give the structure the appearance of a suspension bridge..."
- Easton Daily Express, Easton, PA, October, 1894
The crossing of the Delaware River at Easton, Pennsylvania, provided a central link in travel from the northeastern seaboard to America's inland territories throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries. From 1806 to the mid-1890s, travelers used a landmark wooden structure built by noted bridge-builder Timothy Palmer. By the 1880s, however, Palmer's three-span covered bridge could no longer handle the demands of traffic generated by new trolley lines.
Combining aesthetics with economical design, the Northampton Street Bridge employs a cantilever design with overhead sway bracing confined to the pier elements, giving it the appearance of a small, graceful suspension bridge. Fine ornamental work and miniature turret finishings on the main verticals add to the bridge's elegant presence. Built for the Delaware Bridge Company and operated as a toll bridge, it was sold to the Delaware River Joint Bridge Commission in 1921 and has been toll-free to automobile traffic ever since.
Facts
The Northampton Street bridge consists of a 300-foot center span and two side spans of 125 feet each. It was designed by James Madison Porter, a professor of civil engineering at nearby Lafayette College, and built by Charles Macdonald, founder and president of the Union Bridge Company and president of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1908.
Only two other bridges of similar design are known to exist in the United States -- the Frisco Bridge, a railroad bridge crossing the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee built in 1892, and the swing span of the double-deck railroad and highway bridge crossing the Mississippi at Rock Island, Illinois built in 1893.
Hurricane Diane caused massive flooding along the Delaware River in 1955, creating a break of about 100 feet in the central span of the Northampton Street bridge. Temporary bridges erected just north of the structure carried traffic for two years while the bridge was being repaired. In 1990, the entire bridge underwent a thorough restoration.
Resources
Carol P. Henry, Charles L. Best, Jackson L. Durkee, "Northampton Street Bridge"; Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 110, No. 7, July 1984.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
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.