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Earthquake damage in Pakistan

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Construction work on the new Queensferry Crossing over the River Forth, April 2016

Fall restraint bags ,should one of the men fall during the unloading of the concrete sections these bags will prevent a serious injury

Golden Gate Bridge, South End, San Francisco

UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering 4th Year Dinner 2013

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

Construction de l'ensemble immobilier Les Rives D'Austra comprenant 4 bâtiments pour 98 logements.

 

Pays : France 🇫🇷

Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)

Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)

Ville : Nancy (54000)

Quartier : Nancy Sud

Adresse : 38, boulevard de la Mothe

Fonction : Logements

 

Construction : 2025 → 2026

Architecte : Clement Blanchet Architecture

 

Permis de construire n° PC 54 395 24 00019

▻ Délivré le 17/07/2024

 

Permis de construire n° PC 54 395 24 00018

▻ Délivré le 17/07/2024

 

Niveaux : R+5

Hauteur : 18,50 m

Surface de plancher : 6  400 m²

Superficie du terrain : 2  792 m²

UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering 4th Year Dinner 2013

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

Superficie du terrain : 1 765 m²

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

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

Déconstruction du cercle de la base de Nancy dans le cadre du projet Grand Nancy Thermal.

 

Pays : France 🇫🇷

Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)

Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)

Ville : Nancy (54000)

Quartier : Nancy Sud

Adresse : rue du Maréchal Juin

Fonction : Armée / Restaurant

 

Déconstruction : 2019 → 2020

Permis de Démolir n° 54 395 19 R0002 délivré le 22 mai 2019

 

Niveaux : R+3

Hauteur : ≈15 m

Surface de plancher à démolir : 3 800 m²

Superficie du terrain : 11 336 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.

  

Not the most common visitors to Saltley were class 37s, here 37092 is seen behind the depot building.

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

UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering 4th Year Dinner 2013

UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering 4th Year Dinner 2013

UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering 4th Year Dinner 2013

Reilly Contractors project for our client involved the extension of an existing sewer main to service a newly created subdivision.

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

The mid-transfer deck coffee shop is gone, leaving nothing but a discoloured patch and a waifed sign

UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering 4th Year Dinner 2013

New Milford, Connecticut

Constructed 1926-1929

 

The statement that a hydro-electric plant can pump its own water supply sounds absurd on the face of it, yet this is virtually what happens in the case of the Rocky River Hydro Plant...

- Chief Engineer Paul Heslop, Connecticut Society of Civil Engineering meeting, 1928

 

Most residents of western Connecticut know 11-mile long Candlewood Lake as a recreational resource for boating, fishing, and swimming. Not many are aware that the lake is part of the first major project in the United States designed to generate electricity from water pumped into a reservoir. The project's design is made possible by the economics of the electricity market, where power provided during periods of greatest demand generates the highest rates.

 

To create Candlewood Lake, builders dammed a pair of tributaries to the Housatonic River, forming the basis for the reservoir. The eight-square-mile storage area is then filled by pumping water from the Housatonic at periods when electricity to run the pumps is least expensive. Power generated by releasing the same water can then be sold at higher rates during periods of peak demand. The technology pioneered at the Rocky River project-reversible pumps that also act as generators-was not widely used in other U.S. projects until the 1950s and 1960s.

 

Facts

The first pumped-storage facility in the world was built in 1909 near Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Unlike the Rocky River plant, it used a pump to store water and a separate turbine to generate electricity. By the time of the Rocky River project, more than 40 pumped-storage hydroelectric facilities had been built throughout Europe.

With Candlewood Lake and the Housatonic River differing in elevation by 200 feet, the Rocky River plant uses a single penstock, 1,000 feet long, to carry water downhill and lift it uphill. The Rocky River plant's pair of 8,100-horsepower pumps together are capable of lifting a million gallons every four minutes. At the time of their installation, they were largest of their kind in the world.

The Rocky River plant pumps water when the Housatonic River runs high. When the river runs low, water released from the lake to create electricity also raises the river level, helping generate additional power at two downriver plants. For every kilowatt-hour used to pump water, the three plants together can generate 1.3 kilowatt-hours.

For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.

    

North Adams, Massachusetts

Constructed 1855-1876

 

When locomotive wheels roll through the Hoosac Tunnel, then order your ascension robes.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

When first proposed in 1819, the Hoosac Tunnel seemed so logical. It would provide an efficient and direct route for the Boston and Albany Railroad, whose pathway meandered 20 miles along precipitous grades. Early proponents, however, could not have imagined that blasting a 4.75 mile tunnel through the Hoosac Mountain would require over 20 years of labor. The project took so long to complete that it was commonly referred to as "The Great Bore."

 

Work began in the 1850s, but financial troubles put the project on hold. By 1863, the state legislature took over the tunnel, but political issues, tunneling accidents, and drilling obstacles plagued the process. By 1868, only one-third of the tunnel had been excavated, so legislators sought private contractors to complete the job. They awarded the work to two highly regarded Canadian civil engineers, Walter and Francis Shanley. They quickly reorganized the work and introduced several innovations that allowed them to finally complete the work and, at the same time, significantly transform hard-rock tunneling techniques.

 

Facts

 

- The Hoosac tunnelers developed several innovations that marked the transition to modern tunneling methods: 1) a more effective process for pushing the tunnel advance, called the "center-cut system;" 2) the use of mechanized drilling equipment; 3) the use of high-powered explosives that resulted from advances in the science of chemistry; and 4) the use of electricity to detonate blasting caps, which in turn set off the explosive charge.

- With the center-cut system of heading advance, workers drilled holes in a three-stage sequence, and they loaded and shot each set of holes before proceeding to the next. The first set of holes, the center-cut holes, was placed near the center of the heading and was angled inward, so that a V-shaped area opened when they were shot. Rock blasted loose from two subsequent sets of surrounding holes fell could move into the center hole.

- The Hoosac tunnelers were successful in blasting with nitroglycerine, an explosive ten times more powerful than the black powder used previously. They established procedures for simultaneous detonation using an electric battery, a concept that had not previously been considered.

- Engineers devised an innovative 1,000-foot elevator to hoist rock from the central access shaft.

- Hoosac tunnelers experimented with steam-powered mechanical drills before successfully adopting the newly invented compressed-air Burleigh drill, which greatly improved productivity of the workers and the rate at which the tunneling progressed.

- Hoosac Facts: Over half a million pounds of nitroglycerine were used. Over 20 million bricks were used as lining to support the tunnel. Nearly 200 lives were lost during the two decades of hazardous construction. One million tons of rocks were removed to create the tunnel.

For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.

 

UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering 4th Year Dinner 2013

A new, covered railway station across Blackfriars Bridge with combined London Underground ticket halls and longer platforms for 12-car trains.

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.

 

www.gmcnetwork.com

 

hoovermetcomplex.com/

San Antonio, Texas

Completed 1918

 

In its infancy, Hangar Nine housed Curtiss JN-4s (Jennys) like the one Charles Lindbergh landed there when he reported for duty as a flying cadet in 1924.

 

As the U.S. was preparing to enter World War I, the Army raced to build an entire airfield, complete with 16 wooden hangars, successfully completing it in less than a year. The last remaining World War I facility of its kind, Hangar Nine at Brooks Air Force Base represents the emergence of fast-track construction methods using available materials and the skills of a local workforce.

 

The hangars were a focal point of the Army's early flight training program and, as such, figured prominently in America's emergence as a global military power.

 

Of dozens of similar hangars built during the pre-World War I period, only Hangar Nine remains. In 1969, the military and local community completed a six-year restoration effort that returned Hangar Nine to its original condition, as a tribute to the pioneers of military aviation and aviation facility design. Today it houses the Museum of Aerospace Medicine.

 

Facts

 

- The hangars used 65-foot bolted wooden trusses of modified gambrel form and large sliding wooden doors that opened the full width of the building. They were small compared to steel hangars that would follow but could be erected quickly and lasted for decades. The hangars laid the groundwork for fast-track construction methods, many of which are still used today.

- Hangar 9 is the oldest aircraft hangar on any U.S. military base. Originally built as temporary structures, Hangar 9 and its 15 siblings were used for over 40 years. They were the site many important innovations in flight training, including in-flight instruction, instrument flying and early parachute experiments.

- Most of the hangars were demolished in 1960. In 1969, the military and local community completed a six-year restoration effort that returned Hangar 9 to its original condition. Today it houses the Museum of Aerospace Medicine.

- In its infancy, Hangar 9 housed Curtiss JN-4s (Jennys) like the one Charles Lindbergh landed there when he reported for duty as a flying cadet in 1924.

- The wooden hangar designs were based on standardized plans by Albert Kahn, the most influential industrial architect of the era. Between 1900 and 1940, Kahn designed over 2,000 factories for the auto and aviation industries.

 

Resources

 

Detroit Institute of Art. The Legacy of Albert Kahn, Wayne State University Press, 1987. ISBN: 0814318894

 

For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.

  

Construction of new airport lounges supporting the new Terminal 2

BCIT Civil Engineering Graduating Class of 2013

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.

On site static concrete drum is being refilled by a ready mixed concrete wagon with the specified concrete design mix.

 

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

Loughborough University Business School site

 

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

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.

 

www.gmcnetwork.com

 

hoovermetcomplex.com/

UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering 4th Year Dinner 2013

UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering 4th Year Dinner 2013

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.

 

www.gmcnetwork.com

 

hoovermetcomplex.com/

Construction de l'immeuble de bureaux Padova.

 

Pays : France 🇫🇷

Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)

Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)

Ville : Nancy (54000)

Quartier : Nancy Sud

Adresse : 248, avenue du Général Leclerc

Fonction : Bureaux

 

Construction : 2019 → 2020

Architecte : Agence Nicolas Michelin & Associés (ANMA)

Gros œuvre : Peduzzi Bâtiment

PC n° 54 395 15 0008 délivré le 25 juin 2015

PC n° 54 395 18 R0050 délivré le 08 octobre 2018

 

Niveaux : R+4

Hauteur : 20.92 m

Surface de plancher : 3 061 m²

Surface du terrain : 1 651 m²

Poids en ordre de marche : 77 300 - 97 700 kg

Hauteur de travail : 33 m

 

Démolition d'un ancien château d'eau construit dans les années 1960 à Mondelange pour la construction une chaufferie biomasse de 222 m² pour le nouveau réseau de chaleur municipale.

 

Pays : France 🇫🇷

Région : Grand Est (Alsace)

Département : Moselle (57)

Ville : Mondelange (57300)

Adresse : rue du Cimetière

 

Construction : ≈1965

Déconstruction : 2024 → 2025

 

Permis de construire n° PC 57 474 24 N0003

▻ Délivré le 09/09/2024

 

Hauteur : ≈40,00 m

Superficie du terrain : 943 m²

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.

 

www.gmcnetwork.com

 

hoovermetcomplex.com/

WALKING WITH HERD

 

Standing underneath this bridge made me wonder if a baby elephant has this view on the world when it is walking with its mother in the herd.

UNSW School of Civil & Environmental Engineering 4th Year Dinner 2013

Construction de 43 logements collectifs sur le site de l'ancien Hôpital Villemin.

 

P R É S E N T A T I O N

 

Construction : 2025 → 2027

Architecte : Bagard & Luron Architectes

Fonction : Logements

Permis de construire : 54 395 24 00075

▻ Délivré le 13/11/2024

 

A R C H I T E C T U R E

 

Niveaux : R+6

Hauteur : 24,00 m

Surface de plancher : 2 939,37 m²

Superficie du terrain : 1 297 m²

 

L O C A L I S A T I O N

 

Pays : France 🇫🇷

Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)

Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)

Ville : Nancy (54000)

Quartier : Nancy Sud

Adresse : rue Du Professeur Alain Larcan

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