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I have a "thing" about bridges - I once worked as a summer intern at Strathclyde Regional Council in Hamilton, Scotland. For a whole summer I helped survey, measure and draw road bridges for a register of all bridges (including some "listed" ones) throughout the largest Scottish Region. I was in heaven!! :-)
Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
Completed 1870
With the exception of Nantucket shoals, it is supposed there is no part of the American coast where vessels are more exposed to shipwreck than they are in passing along the shores of North Carolina...
- Report to Congress, 1806
The Atlantic Ocean's northward-flowing Gulf Stream meets the southward-flowing Labrador Current at a point marked approximately by North Carolina's Outer Banks. Since the earliest days of United States commerce, shifting tides, inclement weather, treacherous shoals, and a low-lying shoreline there contributed to what soon became known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Warning sailors of this danger quickly became a top priority in the integrated system of navigational aids provided by the federal government to promote safe passage along the Atlantic Coast.
The first lighthouse on the Outer Banks at Cape Hatteras was built in 1802 and measured 95 feet in height. It was replaced in 1851 by a 150-foot structure fitted with a Fresnel lens. In 1868, responding to complaints that low-lying fog often obscured the beam, Congress authorized funds for the present structure. Boldly striped and rising to a height of 208 feet, Cape Hatteras Lighthouse remains the tallest lighthouse in the U.S. and an enduring symbol of America's close relationship with the sea.
Facts
The lighthouse tower, of double-wall construction, was built from approximately 1.25 million bricks manufactured at a kiln on the James River near Richmond, Virginia.
The spiral bands of alternating black and white -- two black and two white, each circling the tower one-and-a-half times -- were applied in 1873 to better distinguish the tower as a "daymark."
A thorough restoration of the lighthouse -- carried out at a cost of nearly $1 million -- was completed in 1992.
In 1999, Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was moved a half-mile inland to protect it from encroaching shoreline erosion; the complex project, carried out by the National Park Service, relied on experts from 22 disciplines and was recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers as the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement of the year.
Resources
- Anne Elizabeth Powell, "Back from the Brink"; Civil Engineering, October 1999, pp.52-57.
- F. Ross Holland, Great American Lighthouses; New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994, ISBN 0-471-14387-1
- Kenneth G. Kochel, America's Atlantic Coast Lighthouses: A Traveler's Guide; Clearwater, FL: Kenneth Kochel Publishing, Third Edition, 1998, ISBN 0-9640765-3-5
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Civil Engineering graduates and their families gather for a reception before the 2016 Fall Commencement at Colorado State University. December 17, 2016
Clackmanannshire bridge overlooking the island and mud flats created during construction of the bridge, taken form the North shore looking down river, the migrating geese often feed in this area
The Schwerbelastungskörper is a test structure built in 1942 at the direction of Albert Speer, to see if the ground here would be able to the bear the weight of the vast Triumphal Arch which the Nazi regime planned to build to commemorate the First World War. It is 14m high, its basements extend to a depth of 18.2m, and it remained in use for its original purpose until 1977, although several centimetres of subsidence was already noticeable by the end of the war.
Associate Professor Karan Venayagamoorthy celebrates the opening of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Colorado State University. September 22, 2016
Démolition partielle du pont des Fusillés à Nancy en vue de la construction d'un parc de stationnement de 377 places 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
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
Poids en ordre de marche : 77 300 - 97 700 kg
Hauteur de travail : 33 m
Démolition d'un ancien château d'eau construit dans les années 1960 à Mondelange.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Alsace)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Mondelange (57300)
Adresse : rue du Cimetière
Construction : ≈1965
Déconstruction : 2024 → 2025
Hauteur : ≈40,00 m
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.
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/41094
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New York, New York
Dedicated October 28, 1886
Sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi is credited with bringing the concept of the Statue of Liberty to fruition, deriving inspiration from the 19th-century penchance for grandiose monuments. He originally designed the statue for placement at the Suez Canal, but the project was never commissioned. After a promotional trip across America, Bartholdi's ideas finally took hold in 1874, and a Franco-American coalition was formed to fund the project, with the Americans building the base and the French the statue. Bartholdi delivered the statue in pieces: first the arm and torch, then the head, and finally the body.
French engineer Gustave Eiffeldesigned the intricate skeleton for the statue, an iron frame that supports the copper-sheathed exterior. American architect Richard Morris Hunt designed the pedestal.
Resources
- Mary J. Shapiro, How They Built the Statue of Liberty, New York: Random House, 1985.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.