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I went for a visit to Derby for their comedy festival and to spend the weekend with Gemma.
Saturday morning we went to Belper to the river gardens and the horseshoe weir, which is an incredible piece of civil engineering!
The gardens are lovely and tranquil. It was a great little alternative to our usual trip to Dovedale - which we called off because the weather wasn't great.
Had a lovely morning though!
Site Striping & Signage Plan for the CapMetro rail station located at M.L.K. in Austin, TX.
(COA Case #SP-2007-0409C). Circa 2008.
OK, not remodelling but couldn't resist: two pigeons settled on the cab of the HST when it arrived, and are just finding out that they won't be staying there long
Congressman Blumenauer, with ASCE President Andrew Hermann and economist Steven Landau, at a briefing by the American Society of Civil Engineers. ASCE released a new report: “Failure to Act: The Economic Impact of Current Investment Trends in Water and Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure,” which highlights the economic costs associated with not investing in water infrastructure.
photo courtesy David Hatcox
Roadway Improvements plan & profile "A" for The Genesee (AKA: Oak Meadows Apartments) located at 3715 S. 1st St., Austin, TX. (COA Case #SP-2011-0070C). Plans were approved in 2011; Construction began late 2011/early 2012.
Rotary Trail in Birmingham by Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood, Inc.
The Rotary Trail is a linear park that follows a depressed rail bed along 1st Avenue South from 20th Street to 24th Street. It is part of a larger trail project that will run from Red Mountain Park in the West to Sloss Furnace in the East. The Rotary Trail is considered an extension of Railroad Park which is the heart of the Jones Valley corridor or the "jewel in the crown" so to speak.
The depressed area referred to locally as "the Cut" for many years, should actually be called "The Fill" as the rail bed was the original grade and 1st Avenue South was raised to meet the new viaducts traveling over the Railroad tracks between 1st Avenue South and North.
20th Street gateway is a steel structure 23' wide and 40' tall reminiscent of the iconic steel structure that was located in front of the old train station torn down in the 60s. The words "Rotary Trail in the Magic City" will be in large red illuminated letters on the structure and will be visible from RR Park. The steel structure will be fabricated by same company that built the original sign.
So far the trail has received 3 awards:
Alabama Wildlife Water Preservation Award 2015
Birmingham Business Journal “Real Estate Deal of the Year” 2016 - Credited trail for spurring $350 million construction along the 1st Ave. corridor.
Atlanta Magazine “Best of Birmingham List” April 2016
Baltimore, Maryland
Completed 1871
"(T)here being considerable apprehension as to the safety of the dam and lake ... the water board requested three well-known engineers ... to investigate and report on the work .... After a very thorough and careful investigation, these engineers reported ... that it would be difficult to make a more perfect bank than that of Druid Lake."
- Alfred M. Quick, Chief Engineer, Baltimore Water Works, February 20, 1902
Like other American cities in the late 19th century, Baltimore had grown so quickly its supply system was unable to provide city residents with a dependable supply of water. Two reservoirs built outside the city helped increase capacity, but heavy rainfalls in the largely agricultural area tended to foul this additional water supply. City officials elected to construct a holding reservoir within the city - contained by an earthen dam - where silty water would be allowed to settle.
No such project had ever been undertaken in the United States. The site chosen was a ravine in Druid Hill Park, a public city park that contained a small stream. Beginning in 1864, Robert K. Martin, a civil engineer for the Baltimore Water Department, oversaw the design and construction of a 119-foot dam built with materials excavated from the reservoir bed. Orchestrating a careful sequence of construction steps and using readily available construction equipment, Martin pioneered design principles and building methods still in use today.
Facts
- Druid Lake Dam was the first earthen dam more than 100 feet in height built in the United States. It quickly became the forerunner of many similar projects around the country.
- Druid Lake reservoir holds 430 million gallons, and continues to provide a vital link in Baltimore's water-supply network.
- A key element of the dam's construction was the economical handling of materials. Earth and clay were transported directly to work areas from their excavation sites on temporary railroad tracks that were taken apart and relocated as work progressed.
- The dam is anchored by a five-foot-tall stone wall extending the dam's entire length -- four feet thick at the base tapering to two feet at the top, and set into solid rock. The wall, described by Robert Martin as the "tooth" of the dam, was meant to stabilize the whole structure against lateral pressure while providing an impervious barrier to water seepage.
- The core of the dam, 36 feet thick at its base, surrounds the stone wall and was made from compacted clay found at the site. The banks that encase the core on each side were constructed of compacted earth in six-inch layers, using rollers drawn by four-horse teams to compress the embankments.
- The upstream face of the dam has a 4:1 slope and the downstream face a 2:1 slope. Both were carefully finished in three-inch layers of compacted earth.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Striping and Signage plan for The Genesee (AKA: Oak Meadows Apartments) located at 3715 S. 1st St., Austin, TX. (COA Case #SP-2011-0070C). Plans were approved in 2011; Construction began late 2011/early 2012.
Giethoorn is a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. Giethoorn used to be a carfree town known in the Netherlands as "Venice of the North" or "Venice of the Netherlands". It has over 180 bridges. In the old part of the village, there were no roads (nowadays there is a cycling path), and all transport was done by water over one of the many canals. The lakes in Giethoorn were formed by peat unearthing.
Giethoorn was founded by fugitives from the Mediterranean region in around AD 1230.
Quite a lot of walkers, and cyclists, on the bridge when I was there. Small kids too, and dogs. Last time I walked across I saw nobody, the whole way across. I think the pedestrian way has been closed recently though, because of the stormy weather, so it may be that people were just taking advantage of its being open again.