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From a set of souvenir photos of the construction of Hoover (Boulder) dam. Thirty years later they built Glenn Canyon dam the same way. I saw that one about a fourth of the way done but NO pictures.
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Réalisation d'un centre thermal et aquatique comprenant des espaces de stationnement et une résidence hôtelière dans le cadre du projet Grand Nancy Thermal.
• Réhabilitation et extension de la piscine intérieure.
• Réhabilitation et extension du bâtiment de la piscine ronde.
• Création de nouveaux bassins extérieurs.
• Création d'espaces verts et de stationnements (découverts et souterrains).
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : rue du Maréchal Juin
Fonction : Piscine
Construction : 2020 → 2023
▻ Architectes : Architectures Anne Démians / Chabanne & Partenaires
PC n° 54 395 19 R0043 délivré le 20 septembre 2019
Niveaux : R+3
Hauteur maximale : 26.66 m
Surface de plancher totale : 16 547 m²
Superficie du terrain : 37 248 m²
Bristol, England
Built between 1835 and 1841
In the early 1830s, the merchants of Bristol, long dissatisfied with their communication with London, began to wonder if the new railroad technology might be a solution to their problem. The Bristol Chamber of Commerce, the Merchant Adventurers and other local industrial bodies formed a committee in 1833 to discuss the ambitious proposal of laying a railway to London. Matters progressed swiftly. Money was advanced and the search for a first-class engineer to guide the effort.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who had helped his father build the Thames Tunnel and who had been appointed engineer for the Clifton Suspension Bridge, was among the many applicants for the engineer-in-chief on the new railway. In March, 1833, the 27-year-old Brunel was chosen to superintend the construction of the Bristol-London railway, which in the same year adopted its Great Western Railway (GWR) as the corporate identity it would retain until consolidation into the nationwide British Railways system in 1948. It was the first major civil engineering work to be designed, directed, and completed by Brunel. Parliment officially established the company in 1835 and construction began the next year.
Brunel's route ran north of the Marl-borough Downs via Reading, Swindon, and Bath. He selected this northern course because it offered easier gradients and because it would readily allow later extensions to Oxford, Gloucester and South Wales. West of Reading he laid out the railway to follow the Thames River and pass through the valley of the Chilterns. For a distance of 77 miles the track would gradually gain elevation as it proceeded west to Swindon, never exceeding a gradient of 0.15 in 100 (8 feet per mile). From Swindon, the descent to Bristol was to be made over two short gradients of 1 in 100 (52.8 feet per mile). One of these would be in a tunnel through the Box Hill east of Bath.
Portions of the GWR opened as they were completed, beginning with the 24-mile London Paddington-Taplow section, which included the eight-arch Wharncliffe Viaduct, in 1838. Completion of the Maidenhead Bridge over the Thames, with its two, unusually flat, elliptical arches, allowed the line's extension to Twyford the following year. By December 1840, the railhead had reached Chippenham, where it crossed the center of town on another Brunel-designed arch viaduct. Almost appearing to be two separate structures, this viaduct includes six large and three small arches. While the railhead steadily advanced from the east, construction began onthe western section from Bristol to Bath, which also began service in 1840.
The last 24 miles between Chippenham and Bath - out of the total of 118 3/4 total between London and Bristol - were the worst. This final stretch contained the famous Box Tunnel, considered by many at the time to be almost impossible to build or operate through. Brunel believed otherwise, and he intentionally chose a route that required a tunnel through Box Hill to maintain the most-favorable gradients over the entire line.
Box Tunnel was a major feat in those early days of railway engineering. At 1 7/8 mile, it was the longest railway tunnel in existence. The bore measured 30 feet wide at the spring of its arch with a crown 25 feet above the rails. For construction access, and later ventilation, Brunel sank six vertical shafts 30 feet in diameter and varying from 70 to 300 feet deep, along the alignment of the tunnel. They permitted excavations to proceed simultaneously at fourteen working faces. During the construction of the tunnel, workers used a ton of gunpowder and a ton of candles every week. Having taken five years to build at an average cost of £100 per yard, Box Tunnel, along with the last portion of the GWR was finished in June 1841, and the ambition of the Bristol merchants to see trains running from London to Bristol was realized.
In Bristol, Brunel teamed with noted architect Matthew Digby Wyatt to design Temple Meads Station. Its Brunel-designed train shed featured a 72-foot-span hammerbeam roof structure-still the world's widest. Although superseded by a newer station, the original building and train shed survive as a museum and car park, making the complex the world's oldest purpose-built railway terminus. Other notable works still in service on the line include Box Tunnel, Sonning Cutting near Reading, Maidenhead Bridge, Wharncliffe Viaduct, and Chippenham Viaduct. London Paddington Station has been enlarged and modified over the years, but Brunel's 1854 three-span train shed remains essentially intact over platforms 1 - 8. These structures and the railway's overall alignment comprise a fitting tribute to one of civil engineering's boldest and accomplished practitioners.
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.
13th MIDAS International Conference took place at Cracow University of Technology in Poland on 7th of May, 2014. About 200 professional engineers, researchers and PhD students joined the conference.
Constructed 1873-1887
"The pouring into this City and Gold Hill of a large stream of water … was the signal for a general jollification and rejoicing of 12 or 13 thousand people."
- The Virginia Evening Chronicle, August 7, 1873 In celebration of the first-phase completion of a small diversion dam on Hobart Creek
In the mid-1800s Virginia City was America's greatest producer of high-grade silver and gold ore. When mining activities began, natural springs provided water to the camps. As the population grew, the Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company was formed to address the need for more water. The company first drew water from tunnels that had been driven into the mountains by prospectors. Water was stored in wooden tanks and sent through pipes into the town.
But the water supply soon began to wane, threatening a drought. In 1871 the company consulted with engineer Hermann Schussler to develop a plan to bring water from a new source in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Marlette Lake Water Supply was the first American water system designed to sustain the high pressures generated by the elevation changes in mountainous regions. Its initial inverted siphon was the largest in the world, and it withstood more than double the pressure of any contemporary pressure pipeline.
Facts
The project involved 21.47 miles of pipeline, 45.73 miles of flume, a 3,994-foot incline tunnel, and over 6,200-acre feet of reservoir storage capacity.
The system is capable of delivering about six million gallons of water per day.
- The laying of seven miles of over very rough terrain in just six weeks was a remarkable feat considering that all labor was performed by men and mules.
- The first stage involved construction of a diversion dam on Hobart Creek, a 4.6-mile wooden flume (channel) from the dam to an inlet tank, and the seven miles of pipe 12-inch, riveted iron pipeline which served as an inverted siphon. The inverted siphon provided a pressure pipeline supplying additional water to the Hobart Reservoir.
- The water company installed a second inverted siphon in 1875, as well as another flume from the Hobart Diversion Reservoir. In 1877, workers completed a 4,000-foot long incline tunnel through the Sierra, traversing down one side of a ravine and up the other from the west side of the Sierra.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Poids en ordre de marche : 26 170 - 28 340 kg
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
Renouvellement d'appareils de voie, et renouvellement d’autres constituants associés (rail, ballast) dans le secteur de la gare de Nancy.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Gulf of Mexico, Galveston Island, Texas
Seawall constructed: 1902-1904
Grade raising: 1903-1911
Galveston Island is a barrier island located two miles off the Texas coast. The island is about 3 miles wide at its widest and about 28 miles long. The Galveston Seawall extends over 10 miles along Galveston's oceanfront, protecting life and property against hurricanes and tropical storms.
The need for such a seawall became apparent when on September 8, 1900 a hurricane struck Galveston Island resulting in the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history. The storm killed, at a minimum, 6,000 of the island's 44,000 inhabitants and caused an estimated $30 million in damage. A three-member board of engineers [Henry Martyn Robert, Alfred Noble (President, ASCE 1903), and Henry Clay Ripley] was formed to make recommendations regarding protecting the city from overflows, raising the city above overflows, and building a seawall.
The board presented its report on January 25, 1902 and recommended construction of a curved-faced concrete seawall rising 17 feet above mean low tide and stretching over 3 miles in length along the oceanfront. In response to this recommendation, Galveston County, Texas contracted with J.M. O'Rourke and Company of Denver for construction of a 17,593-foot seawall. Built between 1902 and 1904, the seawall consisted of a curved, concrete gravity section 16 feet wide on the base at elevation 1 foot above mean low water, and 5 feet wide on top at elevation 17 feet above mean low water. It would weigh 40,000 pounds per foot of length. A 100-foot wide embankment was built up behind the concrete section to a maximum elevation of 16.6 feet. Over time the seawall was extended both westward and eastward to provide protection to other areas.
Concurrent with construction of the seawall, the city of Galveston undertook extensive grade raising which not only provided support for the seawall but also facilitated drainage and sewage systems. The initial grade raising took place from 1903-1911. Work was accomplished in quarter-mile-square sections and involved enclosing each section in a dike and then lifting all structures and utilities such as streetcar tracks, fireplugs, and water pipes. Around 2,000 buildings were raised on hand-turned jackscrews. The sand fill was dredged from the entrance to Galveston Harbor and then transported to the residential district through a 20-foot deep, 200-foot wide, and 2.5 mile long canal using four self-loading hopper dredges. After the fill was discharged in the areas to be raised, new foundations were constructed on top of it.
Facts
- The seawall was founded on timber piles and protected from undermining by sheet piling and a layer of riprap, four-foot-square granite blocks extending 27 ft outward from the toe of the sea face of the wall.
- Materials used in constructing the original seawall included 5.200 railway carloads of crushed granite; 1,800 carloads of sand; 1,000 carloads of cement; 1,200 carloads of round wooden pilings; 4,000 carloads of wooden sheet pilings; 3,700 carloads of stone riprap; and 5 carloads of reinforcing steel.
- About 500 city blocks were raised using 16.3 million cubic yards of sand spread from a few inches to eleven feet thick.
Resources
Bixel, Patricia Bellis. Galveston and the 1900 storm: catastrophe and catalyst. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.
McComb, David G. Galveston: A History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986.
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.
A report that recommends steps to reduce hurricane damage in New Orleans was released today by an expert engineering panel of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The 84-page report, “The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why,” targets the public and policymakers, and complements and synthesizes the thousands of pages released so far by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during their post-Katrina investigation. Dr. Robert Gilbert (pictured), the risk expert on the ASCE panel and a civil engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, noted that their risk analysis confirms the vulnerable nature of the city’s hurricane protection system.
In the report, the international risk expert and other panel members estimated the New Orleans' levees and floodwalls had put lives at risk at a 1,000-fold higher rate than considered minimally acceptable for a major U.S. dam.
Williams has been promoting domestic hunger awareness, a cause that was close to her heart since long before wearing the crown
Kate Browning reacts as her bridge snaps under the weight. Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications
As the tallest building in the immediate area, 519 E. Green in Champaign, Illinois has open views of bustling Green Street. The MSA team made the decision to focus the design on a glass façade with spandrel glass masking areas of structure and utilities. Vision glazing offers scenic views and daylight for most spaces and from multiple angles.
Fonds Trutat - Photographie ancienne
Cote : TRU C 379
Localisation : Fonds ancien
Original non communicable
Titre : En marche dans le wagon terrasse : Ax-les-Thermes - Foix, 5 août 1906
Auteur : Trutat, Eugène
Rôle de l’auteur : Photographe
Lieu de création : Ax-les-Thermes (Ariège ; canton)
Date de création : : 1906
Mesures : 12 x 9 cm
Mot(s)-clé(s) :
-- Tunnel -- Train -- Voie ferrée -- Pont -- Bâtiment
-- Pyrénées (France) -- Ariège (Midi-Pyrénées) -- Ariège (France ; haute vallée) -- Foix (Ariège) [Mention / citation]
-- 20e siècle, 1e moitié
Médium : Photographies
Médium : Positifs sur plaque de verre -- Noir et blanc -- Paysages urbains
Bibliothèque de Toulouse. Domaine public
Poids en ordre de marche : 15 900 kg
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 : viaduc Kennedy
Travaux de voirie pour la réhabilitation de la traversée de Francorchamps.
Pays : Belgique 🇧🇪
Région : Région wallonne
Ville : Francorchamps (4970)
Aménagement : mars 2024 → juin 2025
Travaux sur le réseau d'eau potable rue du Maréchal Oudinot à Nancy.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : rue du Maréchal Oudinot
Durée des travaux : juillet 2024 → novembre 2024
The 2010 Penn State steel bridge team displays its entry at the regional competition held in State College. The team placed third overall.
Houston, Texas
Completed 1914
"Houston is truly the town that built a port that built a city."
- Fentress Bracewell Former Chairman, Houston Authority Commission
The 50-mile Houston Ship Channel is a manmade port for ocean-going vessels, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Houston and Harris County, Texas.
The waterway was originally known as Buffalo Bayou and was swampy, marshy, and overgrown with dense vegetation. Steamboats and shallow draft boats were the only vessels able to navigate its complicated channel. The dredging and deepening of the channel opened Houston to the world and is credited with fostering the growth and prosperity of the entire State of Texas. In 1909, Harris County citizens formed a navigation district (an autonomous governmental body charged with supervising the port) and issued bonds to fund half the cost of dredging the channel. The U.S. Congress providing matching funds.
When the ship channel opened in 1914, there were few industries located on its banks. By 1930 eight refiners had located there, and today the channel and surrounding area support the second largest petrochemical complex in the world.
Facts
- The channel measures 40 feet deep for most of its length and runs from 300 to 400 feet in width.
- The original depth was 25 feet and it was later deepened to 40 feet.
- The channel stretches from the Gulf of Mexico through Galveston Bay and up the San Jacinto River, ending four miles east of downtown Houston.
- When the ship channel formally opened on November 19, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson fired the salute to the occasion from his desk in the White House, by pushing an ivory button wired to a cannon in Houston.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Poids en ordre de marche : 22 100 kg
Construction de l'ensemble immobilier Le RE/NOUVEAU comprenant 26 logements.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Est
Adresse : 21-23, rue Victor
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 2021 → 2022
► Architecte : Alain Casari
► Gros œuvre : Dalla Costa
PC n° 54 395 19 R0078 délivré le 17/02/2020
Niveaux : R+5
Hauteur : 18.27 m
Surface de plancher : 1 734 m²
Superficie du terrain : 859 m²
Watervliet, New York
Completed 1859
The Watervliet arsenal complex originally was built to house and manufacture weapons for the War of 1812. During the Civil War, it specialized in gun cartridges and artillery carriages. The facility today is a primary site for making state-of-the-art tank cannon, howitzers, mortars, and recoilless rifles.
Perhaps the only building in the United States built almost exclusively of cast iron, the 1859 storehouse at the U.S. Army's Watervliet Arsenal is a unique example of early prefabricated construction technology. Cast iron had been used in Europe for interior elements and in America for exterior storefronts; but self-trained engineer Daniel D. Badger went a step further, designing entire buildings out of the strong, durable and abrasion-resistant material. Cast iron was lighter than masonry, easier to work with than brick and its casting properties allowed designers to add rich classical embellishments. The prefabricated storehouse was erected in just two months, significantly reducing construction costs.
Watervliet is America's oldest continuously active arsenal. Today, the site encompasses 42 acres, 72 buildings and 1.2 million feet of manufacturing space. The storehouse serves as a museum devoted to the history of firearms.
Facts
- Watervliet is America's oldest continuously active arsenal. Today, the site encompasses 42 acres, 72 buildings and 1.2 million feet of manufacturing space. The storehouse serves as a museum devoted to the history of firearms.
- Major Alfred Mordecai, who commissioned the storehouse, wanted it to be both fireproof and highly ornamental. Cast iron was the perfect material. While it may weaken when heated, it will support its weight. Easy to cast, it could be used to produce large structural members as well as fine architectural details.
- The storehouse was prefabricated in New York City by Daniel Badger's Architectural Iron Works, shipped up the Hudson River and erected during two months of 1859. It measures 100 feet by 196 feet and cost $47,360.00 to build.
- All exterior surfaces except the roof are cast iron. To add tensile strength, interior elements were reinforced with wrought iron.
- The arsenal was originally built to house and manufacture weapons for the War of 1812. During the Civil War, it specialized in making gun cartridges and artillery carriages. The facility today is a primary site for making state-of-the-art tank cannon, howitzers, mortars and recoilless rifles.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Travaux de désamiantage, déconstruction des bâtiments de l'ancien collège Claude le Lorrain.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Adresse : place Alain Fournier
Fonction : Éducation
Déconstruction : 2023
► Entreprises : Hollinger
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.
Like most other civil engineering students, Trevor Walker’s hectic schedule involves passing, playing and sometimes scrambling. His nimble mind and keen eye for detail prove handy for his college football career as well. In December 2009, the NCAA Big 12 Conference recognized his abilities in both the classroom and the field when they named him to its Academic All-Big 12 football team. A senior specializing in geotechnical engineering from Mt. Pleasant, Tex., Trevor qualified by maintaining a 3.20 or better grade point average and lettering in Longhorn football.