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I'm a great admirer of Upper Neuadd Dam. The way the towers and walkway piers curve gently out of the main mass is superb. In the hills above Merthyr Tydfil 9th August 2012
The refurbished subway connecting the north side of Reading Station with the south side. Very different atmosphere to the old one.
Ready mix mortar silo erected on site.
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Author: Loughborough University
Wayne and I went photo shooting for his birthday. We ended up at Suicide Bridge in Pasadena (right next to the Rose Bowl.) Apparantly, 150 have jumped off this bridge, landing tragically in the Arroyo Seco River. You can find the whole set of photos here.
And this looks killer on black!
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
Poids en ordre de marche : 39 000 kg
Capacité de la réservoir : 19 m³
Travaux de terrassement de la tranche 3 de ZAC Europôle 2 de la Communauté d'Agglomération Sarreguemines visant à créer 3 plateformes pour un total de 234 915 m².
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Hambach (57910)
Adresse : ZAC Europôle 2
Construction : Avril 2025 → Novembre 2025
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.
The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift in Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. The lift is named after the nearby town of Falkirk in central Scotland. It opened in 2002, reconnecting the two canals for the first time since the 1930s as part of the Millennium Link project.
The plan to regenerate central Scotland's canals and reconnect Glasgow with Edinburghwas led by British Waterways with support and funding from seven local authorities, the Scottish Enterprise Network, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Millennium Commission.
Planners decided early on to create a dramatic 21st-century landmark structure to reconnect the canals, instead of simply recreating the historic lock flight.
The wheel raises boats by 24 metres (79 ft), but the Union Canal is still 11 metres (36 ft) higher than the aqueduct which meets the wheel. Boats must also pass through a pair of locksbetween the top of the wheel and the Union Canal. The Falkirk Wheel is the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world, and one of two working boat lifts in the United Kingdom, the other being the Anderton boat lift.
The two canals served by the wheel were previously connected by a series of 11 locks. With a 35-metre (115 ft) difference in height, it required 3,500 tonnes (3,400 long tons; 3,900 short tons) of water per run and took most of a day to pass through the flight.
By the 1930s these had fallen into disuse, and the locks were dismantled in 1933.
The Forth and Clyde Canal closed at the end of 1962, and by the mid-1970s the Union Canal was filled in at both ends, rendered impassable by culverts in two places and run in pipes under a housing estate.
The British Waterways Board (BWB) came into existence on 1 January 1963, the day the Forth and Clyde Canal was closed, with the objective of finding a broad strategy for the future of canals in the United Kingdom.
In 1976, the BWB decided after a meeting with local councils that the Forth and Clyde Canal, fragmented by various developments, was to have its remaining navigability preserved by building new bridges with sufficient headroom for boats and continuing to maintain the existing locks.
Restoration of sea-to-sea navigation was deemed too expensive at the time, but there were to be no further restrictions on its use.
MMA 1979 survey report documented 69 obstructions to navigation, and sought the opinions of twenty interested parties to present the Forth and Clyde Local (Subject) Plan in 1980.
The Lotteries Act 1993 resulted in the creation of the Millennium Commission to disseminate funds raised by the sale of lottery tickets for selected "good causes."
In 1996, when sufficient funds had been accumulated, the Commission invited applications to "do anything they thought desirable ... to support worthwhile causes which would mark the year 2000 and the start of the new millennium."The conditions were that the Commission would fund no more than half of the project, with the remaining balance being covered by project backers.
The BWB had made an earlier plan for the reopening of the canal link, which comprehensively covered the necessary work. In 1994, the BWB announced its plan to bid for funding, which was submitted in 1995 on behalf of the Millennium Link Partnership. The plans called for the canals to be opened to their original operating dimensions, with 3 metres (9.8 ft) of headroom above the water. The whole project had a budget of £78 million.
On Valentine's Day 1997, the Commission announced it would support the Link with £32 million of funding, 42% of the project cost.
The Wheel and its associated basin was priced at £17 million, more than a fifth of the total budget.Another £46 million had to be raised in the next two years before construction could commence, with contributions from BWB, seven local councils, Scottish Enterprise, and private donations being augmented by £8.6 million from the European Regional Development Fund.
This machine is used to create augercast piles and is being used at this highly built-up city site (London) as the process causes less disturbance than using a mechanical pile driver. To form a pile, the hollow-stemmed continuous flight auger first drills down to the required depth. Then, as the auger is slowly withdrawn it lifts out the drilled soil. At the same time a fluid cement mix is pumped down the hollow stem, so that when the auger is completely extracted it leaves behind a shaft of fluid cement grout to ground level. Reinforcement bars are then sunk into the cement shaft before the concrete mix sets
Travaux sur le réseau de chauffage urbain rue des Jardiniers à Nancy.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : rue des Jardiniers
Taken from the hills on the north side of the bridge. I think this is the time when my car door flew into the car next to me...
NEW LONDON, Conn. - First Class Cadet Nathanael F. Crum, a civil engineering major at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, poses for a photo in a design lab at the academy here Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Crum was placed on the the 2011 spring semester Board of Trustees Honors List, the most prestigious honors list at the academy. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Timothy Tamargo
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.
Loughborough University Business School site having more cement delivered by a cement mixer
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Author: Loughborough University
Builder cutting blocks to size to put around dummy frame
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Author: Loughborough University
Welcome to my desk.
Twin screens (1No 20'' (which rotates) + 1No 19'') assist me in my job as does my upgraded machine that runs them.
Sadly not the fastest machine on the planet (mine at home is better than I use at work!) but it does the job.
A P4 HT running at 3.8Ghz, 4Gb 833 Ram, 256Mb Radeon Graphics card.
I use AutoCAD in various forms for my work and have been a draughtsman for almost 13years. Although I'm pretty conversant in most CAD packages too.
Check out link... to view more details of what were getting up to.
Photo on screens was taken at recent Flickr meet in Edinburgh. As seen here here
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 parking.
P R É S E N T A T I O N
Construction : 2026 → 2027
Architecte : ABA Workshop
Fonction : Parking
Permis de construire : PC 54 395 25 00063
▻ Délivré le 12/11/2025
A R C H I T E C T U R E
Niveaux : R+4
Hauteur : 17,36 m
Surface de plancher : 6 416 m²
Superficie du terrain : 1 996 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 : Rives de Meurthe
Adresse : rue de Newcastle, 54000 Nancy
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 Sud
Adresse : boulevard Jean-Jaurès
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.