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Embudo, New Mexico
Completed 1888
A tiny village on the Rio Grande River in northern New Mexico became the training center for the first American hydrographers and provided the first stream-gauging operations of the U.S. Geological Survey. To plan any water system, it is necessary to know the amount of water flowing in the stream or river at all times - including low, normal, and flood conditions.
To create streamflow measurement techniques, engineers designed gauging equipment and brought hydrographers to Embudo to learn to use these tools. The activities performed at Embudo led to the gauging of many of the nation's waterways, providing nationally consistent, prescribed standards for the scientific evaluation of surface-water resources and crucial data for land use and urban planning decisions.
Facts
- To measure their first section of the Rio Grande, engineers built a raft, using four empty barrels for floats, and stretched a rope across the river to secure the raft for soundings and velocity measurements.
- Since no current meters were available, the engineers initially designed various float measurement tools. Later, levels were run along the river to determine its slope and formulas were used to compute the discharge.
- Each day a student would gather meteorological data. He would take barometer readings each hour, take the temperature of the river twice and day, and determine the amount of water evaporation by checking the level in the cook's bread pan.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
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
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 pour la construction une chaufferie biomasse de 222 m² pour le nouveau réseau de chaleur municipale.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Alsace)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Mondelange (57300)
Adresse : rue du Cimetière
Construction : ≈1965
Déconstruction : 2024 → 2025
Permis de construire n° PC 57 474 24 N0003
▻ Délivré le 09/09/2024
Hauteur : ≈40,00 m
Superficie du terrain : 943 m²
The walkway that connects the Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex with the Natural Resources Engineering Facility.
When I remarked of the rather medicinal quality of the hallway, my beau/tour guide and recent Civil Engineering graduate, "It's so sterile so you don't contract an infection when you're raping the earth." Hardy har har... he's lucky to find someone who understands his humour.
Pelham Ridge Elementary School was designed by Goodwyn Mills Cawood. Pelham Ridge Elementary is the first new construction school designed for the newly-formed Pelham City School Board. The new elementary school is a two-story brick and stone building with wood elements, which reflects the desired character and materiality of the existing schools in the district. Pelham Ridge incorporates a variety of learning environments in addition to the typical classroom. These supplemental learning spaces include two “break-out” learning spaces, a flexible classroom, and two courtyards. Two of the classroom wings adjacent to the courtyards are designed to function as storm shelters and meet the Alabama Building Commission’s state standard for storm shelters, ICC 500.
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Civil Engineering graduates and their families gather for a reception before the 2016 Fall Commencement at Colorado State University. December 17, 2016
Roadway Improvements plan for the CVS located at 4001 W. William Cannon Dr., Austin, TX. (COA Case #SP-06-0694C). Circa 2007.
Vehicle and pedestrian bridges connecting stadia for a large sporting event in Stratford, London, UK
A look into Professor Markus Buehler's research group in the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics.
The goal of Buehler’s research group is to understand and model the structure of natural materials like collagen, bone, and spider silk in the hopes that their incredible mechanical properties may be replicated in synthetic materials. Their material design traverses scales from atoms to structures.
Photo by Elizabeth Woodward
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Vehicle and pedestrian bridges connecting stadia for a large sporting event in Stratford, London, UK
Civil engineering student Alison Willie of Happy Valley, Ore., with the scarves she and her volunteers knit. Proceeds from the scarf sales go to the Lift for Life cancer charity. (Photo credit: Curtis Chan)
Civil Engineering graduates and their families gather for a reception before the 2016 Fall Commencement at Colorado State University. December 17, 2016
Pelham Ridge Elementary School was designed by Goodwyn Mills Cawood. Pelham Ridge Elementary is the first new construction school designed for the newly-formed Pelham City School Board. The new elementary school is a two-story brick and stone building with wood elements, which reflects the desired character and materiality of the existing schools in the district. Pelham Ridge incorporates a variety of learning environments in addition to the typical classroom. These supplemental learning spaces include two “break-out” learning spaces, a flexible classroom, and two courtyards. Two of the classroom wings adjacent to the courtyards are designed to function as storm shelters and meet the Alabama Building Commission’s state standard for storm shelters, ICC 500.
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Kansas City, Missouri
Completed 1911
Work began in 1887 on the high-level truss Winner Bridge crossing the Missouri River at Kansas City. The piers were completed in 1890, but for financial reasons the project was suspended. John Alexander Low Waddell, renowned civil engineer, prepared an alternate design for a lift bridge in 1895, which would ultimately be built as the Armour-Swift-Burlington Bridge.
The Armour-Swift-Burlington encompassed many new innovations, primarily to take advantage of advances in materials and construction practices, like using riveted steel. It was the first bridge in Kansas City to provide separate rights-of-way for pedestrians, wagons, electric railways, freight trains, and motor traffic. It helped the city maintain its role as a railroad hub, permitted the railroads to expand their service, and opened up North Kansas City to development.
Resources
- Ernest E. Howard, "Vertical Lift Bridges," Transactions ASCE (Vol. LXXXIV), 1921
- Katherine Goldsmith, Willard E. Winner: Case History of an Unsuccessful Promoter, His Times and His Influence, The Native Sons of Kansas City, Missouri, 1963.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
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