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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.
Not the most common visitors to Saltley were class 37s, here 37092 is seen behind the depot building.
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.
Construction d'un bâtiment tertiaire sur le site du Marché de Gros à Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy (54511)
Adresse : rue Jean Mermoz
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.
The Caissons temporary residence in shallow water waiting to be fitted out with pumps , electrics ect
A new, covered railway station across Blackfriars Bridge with combined London Underground ticket halls and longer platforms for 12-car trains.
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.
Lowell to Charlestown, Massachusetts
Operated 1803-1853
"Additional funds were continually needed as unexpected expenses arose. The rebuilding of the embankments that sank and continued to sink were extremely costly. Material for watertight mortar had to be imported at considerable expense. Stonework on the locks ran into high sums. Unsuspected [rock] ledge required tedious and expensive excavation..."
- Mary Stetson Clarke, The Old Middlesex Canal, 1987
While the Erie Canal has become well-known in the annals of American history, the Middlesex Canal, built two decades earlier and a model for canal engineers throughout young America, has only recently become recognized for its important achievements. Extending 27 miles northeast from Boston harbor to the Merrimack River near present-day Lowell, Masachusetts, the Middlesex Canal provided low-cost and efficient freight transport for almost five decades, helping to establish the canal in the U.S. as a viable means of economic development.
The building of the Middlesex Canal also served as a proving ground for an American practice of civil engineering. Its construction, for example, saw one of the first uses of telescopic leveling devices in America, the first innovations in cement-making, the first experiments in "puddling" canal banks to make them water-tight, and the first use of dump carts to speed excavation. While the canal never turned a profit for its private investors, it nonetheless stimulated economic growth along its path, establishing a foundation for one of America's first major industrial regions.
Facts
Thirty feet wide and three-and-a-half-feet deep, the Middlessex Canal was dug through the rocky New England terrain by hand, mainly by property owners who were paid to excavate the section of the canal that crossed their land. The construction of more than 50 bridges and eight acqueducts was carried out by eight companies, which hired as many as 500 workers, a labor force that also helped complete the remainder of the digging.
- The Canal project was supervised from by Colonel Loammi Baldwin, a self-educated Revolutionary War veteran who relied on British engineer William Weston to help him survey and lay out the canal's path. Perhaps the most impressive of Col. Baldwin's accomplishments was the 188-foot-long acqueduct he built to carry the canal 30 feet above the Shawsheen River. The remnants of the acqueduct are among the most prominent reminders of the Middlesex Canal left today.
Col. Loammi Baldwin's son, Loammi Baldwin, Jr., also became a civil engineer, playing an important role in the building of early American canals and railroads.
- In the first eight months of the canal's operation, 9,405 tons of freight were carried into Boston at a cost of nearly $14,000. The comparable cost by land would probably have been more than $50,000. Soon after its opening, the Middlesex Canal also began to serve families and individuals seeking escape from the summer heat of the city of Boston. Brightly painted boats regularly carried passengers to villages and taverns along the canal, where they might spend several days in the cool New England countryside.
- In 1812, the Middlesex Canal company built the first steam towboat in America, fitting a heavy steam engine on a standard canal boat. After three summers, the experiment was halted because vibrations from the engine literally threatened to shake the boat apart. Another version using a smaller engine was tried, but could not be operated efficiently under four miles per hour, the canal's speed limit.
- The Middlesex Canal helped make possible the growth of Lowell, Massachusetts, as America's first industrial center, with its elaborate system of canals and water-powered textile mills. Throughout the 1830s, the canal's "golden age," it carried vast supplies of raw cotton and other materials to the mills, and finished supplies back to Boston. Soon thereafter, the Middlessex Canal was supplanted as the preferred means of industrial transportation in the region by the development of railroads.
Resources
- Mary Stetson Clarke, The Old Middlesex Canal; Canal History and Technology Press, 1987, ISBN 0930973054
- Middlesex Canal Museum & Vistor's Center, Lowell, MA, National Historical Park
- Warburton VerPlank, Middlesex Canal Guide and Maps; Middlesex Canal Association, 1996
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Construction de l'ensemble immobilier Au Jardin des Arts comprenant 41 logements dans 2 bâtiments.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Metz (57000)
Quartier : Nouvelle-Ville Metz
Adresses : avenue André Malraux / rue Sturel Paigné
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 2022 → 2026
▻ Architecte : Thierry Hamamm
Permis de construire n° PC 57 463 20 X0095
▻ Délivré le 12/08/2021
Niveaux : R+5
Hauteur : 19,25 m
Surface de plancher : 3 105, 91m²
Surface du terrain : 2 558 m²
field-oriented control AC frequency inverters, used in plastic injection molding machine, machine tools, air compressor, water supply, civil engineering, conveyor belt, sewage disposal (wastewater treatment), extruder machines, extruder, fan and pump, HVAC, food and beverage industry, mining industry...
On site static concrete drum is being refilled by a ready mixed concrete wagon with the specified concrete design mix.
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Author: Loughborough University
Loughborough University Business School site
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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.