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It was a cold and foggy morning on January 19, 2013. The frosted and chilly air gave way for little, save the thirty-four-hundred-ton Sellwood Bridge as it crept over thirty-three feet in fourteen hours in a feat of civil engineering glory. Nudging the old bridge aside makes room for a new bridge to be constructed in its place. The facts speak to urban progress, while the images tell a story of folks from the neighborhood looking for a spectacle, but getting something slightly more subtle. The best part of it all was the helpful feller with a binderful of printouts roaming around the crowd eager to share the historical context of the thing. I never got his name, but he was quite an effective liaison between our modern confusion and the relative certainty of days gone past. He deserved a hearty handshake for his efforts. Read more details over at sellwoodbridge.org. There’s even a timelapse video.
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 : 109 400 - 131 600 kg
Hauteur de travail : 41 m
Déconstruction de la Tour de la cité administrative à Colmar.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Alsace)
Département : Haut-Rhin (68)
Ville : Colmar (68000)
Quartier : Saint-Léon
Adresse : rue Fleischhauer
Fonction : Administration
Construction : ≈1970
Déconstruction : 2024
Niveaux : R+13
Hauteur : 45,00 m
Trackbed for four new platforms (or maybe 3.5 - I think the old terminating platform 10 to the right will become a through platform).
Those two masts will soon support a gantry.
Water line plan & profile for the Toyota dealership at 4900 Weidemar Lane in Austin, TX
(COA Case #SP-2009-0323C) Circa 2009
Travaux de renouvellement du site propre du trolley à Essey-lès-Nancy dans le cadre des aménagements pour la ligne 1 du trolley.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Essey-lès-Nancy (54270)
Quartier : Mouzimpré
Adresse : rue des Près
Mackenzie Billman, Obie Cruz, Bethany Strasburg (left side) Madeleine Schulenberg, and Alexandra Carlsgaard (right side) painted a concrete canoe for civil engineering students to race at the American Society of Civil Engineers Great Lakes Conference. The canoe has a military theme. Photo by Jim Whitcraft
Construction de l'ensemble immobilier Les Rivages composé de 4 bâtiments pour 98 logements en accession à la propriété et d’une résidence services seniors de 115 logements.
Le projet se situe sur l'ancien site des Entreprises Jules Kronberg (négociant en charbon). Quelques éléments seront conservés comme la cheminée d'une hauteur de 38 mètres ainsi qu’un bâtiment situé sur le bord du boulevard Lobau.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : 45, boulevard Lobau
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 2021 → 2022
▻ Architecte : Malot & Associés
PC n° 54 395 19 R0067 délivré le 11/10/2019
Niveaux : R+6
Hauteur : 25.00 m
Surface de plancher : 12 989 m²
Superficie du terrain : 5 610 m²
Rénovation et transformation en 102 logements de l'ancien Hôpital Villemin à Nancy.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : 45-55 rue de Nabécor / 34-44 quai de la Bataille
Fonction à l'origine : Hôpital
Fonction actuelle : Logements
Construction : 1919 → 1920
• Architectes : Georges Biet / Albert-François Jasson
Rénovation : 2019 → 2020
• Architecte : T.O.A. Architectes
• Gros œuvre : Groupe Rabot Dutilleul
PC n° 54 395 17 R0016 délivré le 23 avril 2018
Niveaux : R+3
Hauteur : 21.70 m
Superficie du terrain : 6 494.20 m²
Superficie du terrain : 7 980 m²
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
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
Portes ouvertes à la Carrière de Trapp de Raon-l'Étape lors des Journées européennes du patrimoine 2023.
Poids en ordre de marche : 104 500 kg
Capacité du godet : 10 - 14 m³
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Completed 1890
The structure has two segments: an East Channel bridge consisting of four 175-foot spans and three 240-foot spans crossing from Harrisburg to City Island; and a West Channel bridge, consisting of seven 175-foot spans crossing from City Island to Wormleysburg.
With 15 truss spans totaling 2,820 feet, the Walnut Street Bridge is the finest and largest surviving example of the standardized Phoenix wrought-iron truss bridges produced from 1884 to 1923.
Civil engineer Samuel Reeves founded the Phoenix Bridge Company. Wendell Bollman, inventor of the Bollman Truss, created the company's Phoenix column - a circular compression member assembled from flanged, rolled wrought-iron segments. The superstructures of these bridges were completely prefabricated of wrought iron in the company's plant at Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, shipped to the site, and erected by local semi-skilled labor.
The Phoenix Bridge Company prided itself on its ability to deliver written estimates based on the answers to five questions regarding span, width, and clearance, and to deliver a finished product to the site. As such, the company was major force in the explosive expansion of the transportation infrastructure in the United States.
Facts
- The structure has two segments, an East Channel bridge consisting of four 175-foot spans and three 240-foot spans crossing from Harrisburg to City Island, and a West Channel bridge, consisting of seven 175-foot spans crossing from City Island to Wormleysburg.
- The bridge was closed to vehicular traffic in 1972 as a result of floods during Hurricane Agnes, but remained open as a widely used pedestrian bridge and recreational amenity.
- On January 20, 1996 two spans of the West Channel bridge were lifted by an ice jam during a flood and carried downstream to lodge beneath the Market Street Bridge. A third span collapsed due to flood damage. The surviving spans still comprise the premier example of the Phoenix truss.
- The rapid growth of the iron bridge industry gave rise to an array of truss types and sharpened the analysis and design methods that the civil engineering profession used for the design of bridges in general, and truss bridges in particular.
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
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.
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.
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
24" Water line plan & profile for the Walmart at 620 & 2222 in Austin, TX (4 points)
(COA Case #SPC-04-0048C) Circa 2005
Anthony Colton, an undergraduate in civil engineering, takes a swing at the CEE Mini Golf course set up in the Blue Lounge of the George G. Brown Laboratory on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, October 12, 2022.
For this round two environmental engineers teamed up to play with two civil engineering undergrads. From left, others in the photo are Renata Starostka, Renisha Karki, and Claire Smith.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
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Rye, New York
Constructed 1873-1876
It is a large, imposing structure (over a dozen rooms and spacious halls) dominated by a four-story octagonal tower at one corner and a second shorter square tower at another corner containing tanks for potable and fire-fighting water supply.
The Ward House, named for its builder William E. Ward, a mechanical engineer, is the first and oldest extant reinforced concrete building in the United States. Ward House is constructed entirely of Portland cement concrete reinforced with I-beams and rods of iron. Only the doors, window frames and trim are of wood. The design is an outstanding example of combined Gothic Revival and French Second Empire styles.
No attempt was made to disguise the reinforced concrete. Rather, the design stressed concrete's character as a building material. The structure demonstrated the practicability of reinforced concrete as a construction material for fireproof permanent structures. It also introduced the building industry to a new type of construction that was to proliferate throughout the United States, promoting the nation's development.
Facts
It is a large, imposing structure (over a dozen rooms and spacious halls) dominated by a four-story octagonal tower at one corner and a second shorter square tower at another corner containing tanks for potable and fire-fighting water supply.
Ward House was purchased in the late 1970s by Mort Walker, creator of the syndicated cartoon "Beetle Bailey," who has converted it, without alteration, to a Museum of Cartoon Art.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Ismailia, Egypt
Constructed between 1859 and 1869
The idea of creating a canal linking the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea is a very old one that dates back about 4000 years to the ancient Egyptians. They thought of linking the two seas by using the River Nile and its branches. It was this very old desire that led to the digging of the present Suez Canal.
The building of the Suez Canal was considered the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century. Historically, it the first man-made canal ever dug in service of world trade, and when it opened in 1869, the Canal was the longest man-made sea level canal in the world.
At its opening, the Canal was 164 km long, had a water depth of 7.5 m, and could handle a maximum tonnage of 5,000 D.W.T. Over the years it has been improved in order to cope with the development in the international fleet and to serve world trade. By the year 2001, the Canal was 190.25 km long, had a water depth of 22.5 m, and could handle a maximum tonnage of 210,000 D.W.T.
The modern Suez Canal is still one of the world's most heavily used shipping-routes and continues to play a critical role in international trade.
Resources:
Hallberg, Charles W. The Suez Canal, Its History and Diplomatic Importance, Octagon Books, 1974.
Karabell, Zachary. Parting the Desert: the Creation of the Suez Canal, New York: Knopf, 2003.
Marlowe, John. The World Ditch: the Making of the Suez Canal, New York: Macmillan, 1964.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Appleton, Wisconsin
Completed 1882
Mr. H.J. Rogers is a man who ordinarily deals in heavy things, such as his paper and pulp mills. Within the past few days, however, he has changed his tactics, or rather ... he has gone in for light transactions. He has purchased the exclusive right for illuminating the towns of the Fox River Valley with the Edison electric lamp.
- The Appleton Post, July 27, 1882
By 1880, Thomas Edison had already demonstrated his system for generating electricity with low-resistance generators that delivered power to low-resistance incandescent bulbs. One of the first locations for the application of Edison's demonstration was Appleton, Wisconsin, located on the Fox River just 30 miles southwest of Green Bay. On September 30, 1882, the Vulcan Street Plant in the Appleton Pulp Mill became the first central-station plant in the world to generate electricity by combining the latest advances in hydro-power sites with one of Edison's new electrical generators.
The Edison Company had already begun to generate electricity with steam power 26 days earlier at its Pearl Street plant in New York City, but steam-generated electricity proved more expensive. Within four years of Appleton's pioneering effort, nearly 50 hydroelectric generating projects were announced throughout North America and, by the turn of the century, hydroelectric power accounted for more than 40 percent of the United States' total electricity supply.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.