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Poids en ordre de marche : 44 900 - 59 400 kg
Hauteur de travail : 23 m
Démolition de la résidence pour personnes âgées Anatole-France qui enjambé la rue Anatole France au Havre.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Normandie
Département : Seine-Maritime (76)
Ville : Le Havre (76600)
Adresses : rue Anatole France / rue Raspail
Fonction : Logements
Déconstruction : juin 2021 → septembre 2021
Niveaux : R+6
Hauteur : ≈23,00 m
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.
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.
Shows the new depot and other works on the north side of the track heading west out of Reading station.
View compromised in places by passing trains
Sped up slightly to fit the 90 second limit
Sometimes I like minimalism.
While I was taking a short photography-focused walk this past weekend along the Pine River, I came to this bridge (The Hoxeyville High Bridge) looked up, and saw a desktop wallpaper for those engineering times when I just want to have something heavily constructed on my computer.
It's all about the diagonals here.
Travaux sur le réseau d'eau potable rue de Saurupt à Nancy.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : rue de Saurupt
Durée des travaux : février 2025 → mai 2025
Water line plan & profile for the Toyota dealership at 4900 Weidemar Lane in Austin, TX
(COA Case #SP-2009-0323C) Circa 2009
U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Leroy Rusk, 153rd Civil Engineering Squadron, Wyoming Air National Guard is presented with retirement orders during a ceremony, Dec. 6, 2014 at Cheyenne Air National Guard Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. (photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Huntington)
Construction du programme Mosaic comprenant 3 bâtiments pour 184 logements.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Est
Adresse : 58, boulevard d'Austrasie
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 2018 → 2021
• Architecte : Oslo Architectes
• Gros œuvre : WIG France
PC n° 54 395 17 R0028 délivré le 08 août 2017
Niveaux : R+5
Hauteur : 20.50 m
Surface de plancher : 9 660,90 m²
Superficie du terrain : 6 355 m²
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
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