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Vehicle and pedestrian bridges connecting stadia for a large sporting event in Stratford, London, UK
Construction de l'ensemble immobilier Les Rives D'Austra comprenant 4 bâtiments pour 98 logements.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : 38, boulevard de la Mothe
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 2025 → 2026
▻ Architecte : Clement Blanchet Architecture
Permis de construire n° PC 54 395 24 00019
▻ Délivré le 17/07/2024
Permis de construire n° PC 54 395 24 00018
▻ Délivré le 17/07/2024
Niveaux : R+5
Hauteur : 18,50 m
Surface de plancher : 6 400 m²
Superficie du terrain : 2 792 m²
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.
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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
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
Construction de 32 logements collectifs, réhabilitation d'un immeuble en 6 logements individuels de fonction et construction de 4 maisons individuelles de fonction.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : avenue du Maréchal Juin
Fonction : Logements
Construction : 2025 → 2026
▻ Architecte : Bagard & Luron Architectes
Permis de construire n° PC 54 395 24 00017
▻ Délivré le 01/08/2024
Hauteur : 22,91 m
Superficie du terrain : 6 745 m²
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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!
East Liverpool, Ohio
Completed September, 1785
The Land Ordinance of 1785 required that U.S. lands in the public domain be surveyed before sale, and that the surveys be made in accordance with a consistent, integrated system of lines grid-oriented to a true meridian (north-south reference line) and base line (east-west reference line), subdividing the land into approximately square parcels, called townships.
Thomas Hutchins, the first Geographer of the United States, drove his stake near East Liverpool, Ohio to mark the Point of Beginning of the Geographer's Line, the first westward base line.
The surveys were required by the ordinance to begin on the Ohio River at a point that shall be found to be due north from the western termination of a line which has been run as the southern boundary of the state of Pennsylvania; This point was chosen because the southern boundary of Pennsylvania had just been surveyed, but the western boundary had not.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Déplacement et extension de la station-service pour créer des postes de distribution supplémentaires.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Marly (57155)
Construction : 2024 → 2025
Permis de construire n° PC 057 447 23 Y 0024
▻ Délivré le 28/09/2023
Hauteur : 5,50 m
Surface de plancher : 9,00 m²
Surface des bâtiments à démolir : 12,00 m²
Superficie du terrain : 116 357 m²
Grading Plan for Lakeshore Apartments located at 2220 Elmont Dr., Austin, TX. (COA Case #SP-2011-0114C). Plans were approved in 2011; Construction began late 2011/early 2012.
Profiles of water line crossings at the Toyota dealership located at 12111 Gulf Freeway (I-45), Houston, TX. Circa 2011.
In a special summer UrbanPlan Scholars program, four teams presented their proposals for a six-acre parcel next to UH West Oahu. They had to address zoning requirements, affordable housing/workforce housing, rail/transit issues, agriculture, and energy.
UrbanPlan is a global competition run by the international Urban Land Institute. Hawaii schools have taken top honors in the global competition two years in a row, including Iolani School last month, and Iolani and Kalani two years ago.
Teams were made up of local high school students from Iolani, Kalani, LeJardin, MidPac, Punahou, and St. Andrews.
They conducted outreach to stakeholders and residents in West Oahu and found affordable housing to be the number one community need.
Ideas ranged from rooftop greenhouses and beekeeping to fully solar-powered facilities to integrating UHWO student and campus life.
Judges included Bob Harrison (FHB), Duff Janus (ASB), Brennon Morioka (UH), Mike Gabbard (Senate), Jim Houchens (Mitre), and Alana Kobayashi.
Bernice Glenn Bowers helped them plan for future high-tech industry in the area, doubled the size of the cash prize to $1,500.
Keokuk, Iowa
Completed 1913
Spearheaded by Hugh Cooper, the Keokuk Dam & Power Plant served as a prototype for many future power plants. The project harnessed the hydropower of the Mississippi River, between Keokuk, Iowa and Hamilton, Illinois.
The crest of the dam is nearly a mile long. The dam structure features 119 arch spans between six-foot-thick piers and a 110-foot-wide pneumatic lock. Combined with the lock, the dam reduced travel time for steamboats by nearly two hours.
This was the largest privately-funded construction project in the world when completed, and one of only two North American sites to generate 25-cycle power at the time.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
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)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Constructed 1875-1879
"Eads had to succeed in the face of conventional wisdom which doomed him to disaster. Entrenched authorities not only completely dismissed his theories, but pointed to the indifferent European experiences with what he proposed."
- ASCE Landmark Nomination Proposal, 1982
The mighty Mississippi River has long been a valuable lifeline for the country's transportation and commerce. In the late 1800s, though, the mouth of the ever-changing Mississippi was silting up, creating areas as shallow as eight feet. Eads South Pass Navigation Works opened a channel at the mouth of the Mississippi River that allowed large boats easy access to the Port of New Orleans.
James Buchanan Eads created a self-scouring channel through the South Pass by constructing wing dikes, perpendicular to current flow, which forced the current into a narrower cross-section. The current scoured the river bottom, pushing the silt far out into the deep Gulf waters. This created a nearly permanent channel that required only periodic dredging to maintain navigability.
The channel is no longer maintained for deep-draft traffic due to a decline in maritime shipping. But the principles which guided construction on the South Pass made possible the high performance of the Southwest Pass, currently the predominant seaward approach to the ports of New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Facts
- A T-dam at the head of the South Pass deepened the channel. He used wing dikes, perpendicular to current flow, to force the current into a narrower cross section, thus scouring the channel more completely.
- Sill dams of horizontal timber were placed at the mouth of the river to force the current to further scour the channel.
- Once pilings had been driven, mattresses of interwoven willow branches were submerged and attached to the pilings. Then alternating layers of broken stone and willow mattresses formed the base upon which a railroad line was constructed.
- Initially, the project was completed with funds furnished by Eads and a group of investors. Only if the design succeeded would Congress provide reimbursement.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.