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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.
Poids en ordre de marche : 25 000 kg
Travaux de terrassement dans le cadre du projet Les Rives du Parc à Talange sur le site d'une ancienne friche industrielle.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Alsace)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Talange (57525)
Adresse : rue de Metz
Schiers, Graubunden, Switzerland
Completed 1930
The Salginatobel Bridge looks as if it belongs in its magnificent setting. It is not an intrusion, but it is an elegant, serviceable, important structure
- James E. Sawyer, PE, ASCE President The Salginatobel Bridge, 1991
The Salginatobel Bridge, spanning the Salgina Valley ravine, is the earliest surviving three-hinged, hollow box arch bridge designed by Robert Maillart.
Maillart's 1901 invention of the concrete hollow box design became a major bridge building concept. In this design, the concrete arch ring and the concrete deck are joined by longitudinal concrete sidewalls, giving the structure the cross-section of a hollow box. The bridge includes reinforcement in both the spandrel (pillar) walls and the arch to control cracking. The rocky walls of the ravine provide the arch support, obviating the need for stone abutments.
Maillart's design ran contrary to the prevailing view that bridges should be massive. He believed massive structures would more easily crack and shrink from temperature fluctuations. He also believed in using the best materials, but using them sparingly. This bridge underscores his view, providing the lowest cost of 19 designs submitted for the bridge's original design competition.
Resources
Billington, David P., Robert Maillart and the Art of Reinforced Concrete, Architectural History Foundation, 1991.
Billington, David P., Robert Maillart, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
David P. Billington, Robert Maillart and the Art of Reinforced Concrete, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
David P. Billington, Robert Maillart's Bridges: The Art of Engineering, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979.
David P. Billington, Robert Maillart: Builder, Designer, and Artist, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Dupre, Judith, Bridges, Black Dog & Leventhal, 1997.
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.
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.
Pelleteuse à bord du ROCKPIPER.
Type : Pipe Burying Vessel
Pavillon : Chypre 🇨🇾
Chantier naval : Keppel Singmarine (Singapour 🇸🇬)
Lancement : 2012
Identification (IMO number) : 9583861
Longueur : 158,6 m
Largeur : 36 m
Tonnage : 30 601 tjb
Detroit, Michigan, United States to Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Constructed 1928-1930
[It is] almost incredible that we will be able to pass from the one great country to the other in the short space of three minutes.
- Frank Murphy Mayor of Detroit, 1930
The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is a 5,160-foot structure that carries traffic under the Detroit River between Detroit, Michigan and Ontario, Canada. Privately financed, built, and owned, it was completed in 26 months, 10 months ahead of schedule.
The project's engineer, the firm of Parsons, Klapp, Brinckerhoff and Douglass, used three tunneling methods to construct the structure: cut and cover for the land sections; compressed air shield for the channel approaches and trench; and immersed tube for the river sections. This combination of techniques permitted a shallow tunnel profile which, together with a spiral approach ramp, allowed the connection to Detroit's street system to be located just two blocks from the river.
Ventilation towers rise about 100 feet at each end of the tunnel, on 50-by-90-foot sites. Each tower holds six fresh air fans and six exhaust fans, capable of cycling in a complete change of air every 90 seconds.
Facts
- Prefabrication of the nine tube comprising the 32-foot diameter main channel section involved 65 miles of arc welding !V the first major use of arc welding in tunneling history.
- The immersed sections involved sinking nine steel tubes, 35-feet in diameter, into a trench dug across the river bottom.
- The project pioneered the construction of screeded bed foundation (a technique to ensure proper leveling of poured concrete) for the immersed tube sections.
- The maximum depth of the tunnel is 75 feet below the Detroit River.
- Two million granite blocks were used to pave the original roadway through the tunnel. These were removed when the roadway was paved with asphalt in 1977.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
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
Engineered by Crouch & Hogg and built by Sir William Arrol & Co. in 1938.
Crouch & Hogg were formed by William Crouch & Charles Pullar Hogg in Glasgow in 1876. Amongst other projects, they were structural engineers of the
Glasgow Empire Exhibition Tower.
Sir William Arrol & Co. were founded in Glasgow in 1873 and were responsible for building some of the most famous bridges in the UK, most notably the Forth Bridge and Tower Bridge in London. The company was acquired by Clarke Chapman in 1969.
Camptonville, California
Invented 1878
Water wheels have been used to power mills and pumps for centuries. However, the traditional water wheel was inefficient: water hitting a bucket would splash back against the next bucket, slowing the wheel. This is especially true when water is delivered to the buckets under very high pressure.
Millwright Lester A. Pelton worked in the Mother Lode region during California's gold-mining era, where innovative miners had learned to concentrate a stream of water under very high head, through a nozzle and against banks of dirt and gravel in a process called hydraulic mining. Pelton experimented with high-head nozzles and water wheels, tinkering with at least 40 different configurations until he developed a split bucket water wheel.
Pelton's impulse water wheel was a key to tapping the vast waterpower of the mountainous American West. The Pelton wheel is still used throughout the world for generating power where sources of high-head water are available.
Facts
- The amount of power that a water wheel can generate from a stream of water is dependent on several variables, including: 1) the efficiency of the water wheel; 2) the volume of the stream of water; and 3) the pressure, or head, under which the water is delivered to the wheel. Thus, a high-head, low-volume hydropower facility can theoretically generate as much power as a low-head, high-volume facility.
- By splitting the stream of water from the nozzle into two parts, he was able to eliminate inefficiencies caused by water splashing back against other buckets. He also learned that by changing the angle of the water's impact against the buckets, he could control the speed and power of the water wheel.
- Within 15 years of its first serious demonstration at the Idaho-Maryland gold fields in 1880, 850 companies were using the Pelton wheel and many more were vying for orders.
- At the North Star Mine powerhouse in Grass Valley, California, an 18= foot Pelton Wheel, weighing 10,000 pounds, ran for 30 years pumping 1,000 gallons of water every minute from the mine.
- The wheels are typically used where water is under high heads, generally 1000 feet or more. They develop efficiencies up to 90 percent while utilizing small volumes of water compared to that which are used in turbines. Although there are some Pelton wheels operating under heads of even more than 2,000 feet, there are also many operating at heads of only several hundred feet.
- Pelton's hydraulic prime mover, known as a Pelton turbine, is still being manufactured at a scale and in sizes far beyond the original machines.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Concrete splash staining to face brickwork and windows. This can be rectified with the use of a brick acid wash.
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
Senior Airman Richard Bonham, assigned to the 809th Expeditionary Red Horse Squadron, 1st Expeditionary Red Horse Group, stands for a portrait Sept. 9, Forward Operating Base Dwyer, Afghanistan. Bonham is deployed from the 341st Civil Engineering Squadron, Malmstrom Air Force Base.
U.S. Air Forces Central Public Affairs
Photo by Staff Sgt. Shawn Weismiller
Date: 09.09.2009
Location: Forward Operating Base Dwyer, AF
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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.
The Clearview font, developed with help by civil engineering faculty member Martin Pietrucha to help drivers see road signage better, was displayed as part of a special exhibit on graphic design at New York's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in July 2010. (Photo credit: Cooper-Hewitt Museum)
Loughborough University Business School site constructing structural frames
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
Cornish, New Hampshire, to Windsor, Vermont
Completed 1866
(W)e got about as far as the center of the western span when the bridge floor began to tremble strongly in keeping with the footfalls of a driving horse approaching us in the other span .... This was my only encounter with the sympathetic vibration once so destructive to the joints of bridges.
- Edwin A. Battison, Curator of Civil Engineering, Smithsonian Institution, 1970
The Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge is the longest wooden bridge in the United States and the longest two-span, covered bridge in the world. It is also a classic example of wooden bridge-building in 19th-century America. With copious supplies of timber at hand and a generous reserve of carpentry skills available, bridge builders in early America quickly discarded the masonry arches prevalent in the Old World. Instead, they opted for a revival of timber-truss designs dating from 14th century Europe.
Based on a design patented by architect Ithiel Town in 1820, the Cornish-Windsor Bridge represents the first major step in the evolution of American wooden bridges. With load-bearing joints fastened together by wooden pegs, Town's design uses a lattice pattern that allows the load of the bridge to be distributed more evenly. Extending 460 feet across the Connecticut River and in regular use today, the Cornish-Windsor bridge continues to stand as a model of the economy and resilience of early American design.
Facts
- Constructed originally as a toll bridge at a cost of $9,000, the Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge was purchased by the state of New Hampshire in 1936 and made toll-free in 1943.
- The first structure crossing the Connecticut River at the site of the Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge was built in 1796 and destroyed by flood in 1824. Subsequent bridges were built in 1824 and 1849, each built higher than the last, and each washed away by flood waters.
- Bridges based on Town's design could be assembled off-site by carpenters of modest skill and were widely popular. Town charged builders $1 per linear foot for use of his design -- and $2 per foot for pirated projects discovered by his agents!
When Town first published a description of his patented lattice truss in 1821, he considered the possibility of using iron, rather than wood, to build it. No iron lattice-truss bridge was built, however, until 1859.
- Approximately 10,000 covered bridges existed in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century. Of surviving examples, the Blenheim Covered Bridge in upstate New York and the Bridgeport Covered Bridge in Nevada County, California, are also considered prime instances of timber-truss design.
- The longest bridge using Ithiel Town's lattice-truss design -- with nine spans covering 2,820 feet -- was built over the James River at Richmond, Virginia, in 1838. It was destroyed by Confederate forces in 1865.
Resources
- Richard S. Allen, Rare Old Covered Bridges of Windsor County; Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1962.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
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 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.
Travaux de dépollution sur un ancien site industriel dans la ZAC Thionville Rive Gauche comprenant la déconstruction des dallages, des travaux de terrassement, la purge des sources "sols" ainsi que le traitement des sols impactés et le pompage et traitement des eaux polluées.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Thionville (57100)
Adresses : route de Manom / avenue de Douai
Dépollution : 2023 → 2024
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.
Travaux d'aménagement d'une base de loisirs "la plage des Deux Rives" à Nancy et à Tomblaine.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000) / Tomblaine (54510)
Quartier : Nancy Est
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
The UK's longest road tunnel and a new section of dual carriageway on the A3 near Hindhead in Surrey.
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
Construction : 1974 → 1975
• Architecte : Gruel
Déconstruction : 2019 → 2020
• Entreprise : Lingenheld
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
NEW LONDON, N.C. -- The 145th Civil Engineering Squadron from the North Carolina Air National Guard hosted the Royal Norwegian Army at the Regional Training Site (RTS) in New London, NC on October 17th, 2011 for two weeks. The Airmen worked in partnership with the Norwegian Army and Air Force Military Cadets in support of Operation Impeccable Glove. (Photos by TSgt Patricia Findley, 145th AW/PA)