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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
â–º Architecte : Alain Casari
â–º Gros Å“uvre : 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
â–º 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.
CSU's ASCE Concrete Canoe Team hosts the Rocky Mountain Regional competition at Horsetooth Reservoir. April 5, 2014
civil engineering has a long tradition in my family...this solution is typical for my grandpa and his brother ;-) Don't imitate, innovate.
Williams took home the crown at last year's Miss Auburn University Scholarship Pageant. She recently published the Miss Auburn University Cookbook as part of a local hunger initiative to support the East Alabama Food Bank.
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
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
Construction d'un parc de stationnement de 377 places et restructuration du pont des Fusillés dans la ZAC Nancy Grand Coeur.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Centre
Adresse : boulevard Joffre
Fonction : Parking
Construction : 2016 → 2019
• Architecte : Cabinet Beal et Blanckaert
• Gros œuvre : Eiffage Construction Lorraine
Permis d'aménager n° 54 395 15 00001 délivré le 21 décembre 2015
Superficie du terrain : 6 092 m²
Superficie de l'ouvrage à démolir : 1 666 m²
Civil Engineering Students set up a surveying exhibit. The back reads, "Exhibit of Engineering Surveying instruments. 1st Engineering Bldg on right - 1907-1916 Old engineering bldg on left."
1910-1919
Repository Information:
Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, 101 Conrad Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, archives.msu.edu
Subjects:
Michigan State University -- Civil Engineering -- Classes -- Surveying
Michigan State University -- Buildings -- Engineering
Resource Identifier: A000416.jpg
Montclair, New Jersey
Established 1817
In human progress within the present century there has been no greater marvel than the operations of the Coastal Survey...
- Harper's Monthly, March, 1879
The precise system of measurements provided today by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey originated with an act of Congress under the administration of Thomas Jefferson in 1807 that funded work on "an accurate chart" of America's coastal waters. Intended to aid sea-going commerce, the first work on this project, carried out in 1816 and 1817, helped establish a complex grid of geodetic reference points on which much of our land- and sea-based navigation now depends.
Directed by Swiss-born mathematician and astronomer Ferdinand Hassler, the measurements taken by the Coastal Survey, as it was then known, followed a plan of organization that continues to serve as the foundation for the activities of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey today. A key reference point located in the New Jersey township of Cranetown, used to map the harbor waters of New York City, was designated an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1986 to honor the pioneering work of Ferdinand Hassler and the subsequent achievements of early American surveyors.
Facts
- The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey -- an agency of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration -- currently maintains a grid of more than 500,000 benchmarks across America identified by small bronze markers imbedded in stone or concrete.
- Ferdinand Hassler first learned the system he applied to American surveying as a student at the University of Bern, where he worked in 1790s with his mentor, mathematician Johann Georg Talles, on a geodetic survey of the Canton of Bern.
- Although the system of U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey reference points is considered invaluable by most civil engineers, not all builders rely on them. Surveyors laying out various stretches of the New Jersey Turnpike, for example, used inferior reference points outside the system. The result is a series of S-curves required to correct the highway's path.
Resources
- Aaron L. Shalowitz, The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey; U.S. Department of Commerce, 1974
- Albert A. Stanley, "Hassler's legacy"; NOAA Magazine, January, 1976
- John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers; Alfred A. Knopf, 2000
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Travaux de requalification et d'embellissement du Faubourg des Trois-Maisons à Nancy.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Nord
Zanesville, Ohio
Completed 1841
Most of the locks were 184 feet long and 36 feet wide, able to handle boats up to 160 feet long. The sandstone locks (along with wood miter gates, rock-filled timber-crib dams and bypass canals with guard gates) created a slackwater navigation system stretching over 90 miles.
Southeastern Ohio's Muskingum River and its navigation system of 10 hand-operated locks dates from 1837 when area pioneers recognized the potential of the river as a shipping route for steam-powered vessels. The system of locks and dams permitted navigation upriver as far as the Ohio and Erie Canal at Dresden.
This was one of the earliest slackwater navigation systems built for steamboats in the U.S. The system included a three-mile, side-cut canal linking the Ohio and Erie Canal to the Muskingum at Dresden, with canal-boat-sized locks, a dam, and a 120-by-22-foot lock at Symmes Creek.
Commercial shipping flourished on the river for 70 years, but was replaced by rail and motorized transportation after the turn of the century. Today, it is mostly recreational boaters and anglers who use the hand-operated locks to navigate the river from a point just north of Zanesville to Marietta.
Facts
- Ohio began surveys for its canals in 1822, but politics and topographical issues precluded most of the Muskingum Valley from the initial phase of the development of the Ohio Canal System.
- Most of the locks were 184 feet long and 36 feet wide, able to handle boats up to 160 feet long. The sandstone locks (along with wood miter gates, rock-filled timber-crib dams and bypass canals with guard gates) created a slackwater navigation system stretching over 90 miles.
- The River Navigation System was rebuilt from 1880 to 1911 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and has been operated by the state since 1958.
Resources
Shank, William H., PE, Towpaths to Tugboats, American Canal and Transportation Center, 1982.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
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 : 14 900 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)
Quartiers : Nancy Centre
Adresses : avenue Foch / place de la république