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One for my Geotechnical engineering friends at NU.
The problem is not that it settled, but that it didn't settle evenly....
Note the patched cracks in the mortar. Over on the right side, where my wife is standing, is a matching set of them flanking this over-stable corner of the building.
Gina (D-Impatient) is wondering just HOW many pictures of one brick building I need when lunch and a nice cold ale are waiting.
(01OCT09: I love when an obscure photo suddenly gets hits. Not always obvious why, though. If you search Der Google for "foundation settling" this is on the first page. But why a sudden interest in settling foundations on Ye Tubes?)
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.
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.
Canton, Massachusetts
Completed 1836
As one comes from Norwood, the bridge does form a lovely picture with its many arches through which flow the waters of the branch, thence falling over the dam below, and from the east the picture is also impressive.
- A History of the Viaduct,Canton Historical Society Web site
For more than 165 years, the Canton Viaduct has stood as a dominating structure on the New England landscape. When completed in 1836, the slightly curved, granite masonry bridge - 615 feet long, 70 feet high, and 22 feet wide - carried a single track of the Boston and Providence Railroad, providing a critical link in the establishment of rail service between Boston and New York. In 1860, a second track was added. With few major alterations, the viaduct has continued to provide safe rail transportation to heavier and faster loads throughout the 20th century.
Beginning in the early 1990s, the viaduct underwent a rehabilitation effort aimed at retaining its historic integrity while making it safe for modern, high-speed rail service. Following restoration, the viaduct has continued to serve as crucial transportation link into the 21st century, helping to provide 150 miles-per-hour, electrified, passenger rail service between Boston and Washington, D.C.
Facts
- The Canton Viaduct is believed to be the second oldest multiple-arch masonry viaduct in the United States. It contains 21 arches and was designed with hollow spaces between its walls, strengthened by solid buttresses above the arches.
- After a second track was added to the viaduct in 1860, its only alterations were the installation of iron cross-beams and railings in 1880; concrete reinforcing of the exterior arches in 1910; and the opening of an arch for street traffic in 1952.
- The viaduct's chief engineer was William Gibbs McNeill, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. His assistant was Major General George Washington Whistler, father of the well-known painter, James Whistler, who, it is said, became an artist in contradiction to his father's desire that he chose engineering as a profession.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
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
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.
For more information on GMC's education experience see www.gmcnetwork.com or follow us on social media.
new bridge, work in progress, ashton, western cape. this bridge will be slided in position once finished
new bridge, work in progress, ashton, western cape. this bridge will be slided in position once finished
Day 307 - 17th Jan 2014 - Complicated - Probably not my best photo today but floating around under the big red gadgy was amazing. Imagine building this today. Awesomely awesome...........
With the exception of a curious spectator, the kids have long since lost interest – but, oblivious to everything else, dad happily continues to shovel away on his major feat of sandcastle civil engineering.
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.
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.
For more information on GMC's education experience see www.gmcnetwork.com or follow us on social media.
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.
Photo shows UOW Professor of Civil Engineering and Research Director of Centre for Geomechanics and Railway Engineering, Buddhima Indraratnam with Phd Student, Mahdi Biabani and DR Sanjay Nimbalkar..
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.
For more information on GMC's education experience see www.gmcnetwork.com or follow us on social media.
New York, New York
Completed October 1931
"An essential part of the human experience is to create an aesthetic atmosphere."
The George Washington Bridge represented a departure in suspension bridge design. Chief Engineer O.H. Ammanndeveloped a system of stiffening trusses that offered greater flexibility and saved the project nearly $10 million. Initially, just six of the upper eight lanes were paved, but Ammann designed the bridge to easily accommodate a future lower level.
Swiss-born O.H. Ammann (1879-1965) was Chief Engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey during the bridge's construction.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
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.
For more information on GMC's education experience see www.gmcnetwork.com or follow us on social media.
Built in 1807 on Munjoy Hill on the northern end of downtown Portland. At the time it was constructed by Capt Lemuel Moody, it sat in a cow pasture. It stands 86 feet tall and is the last remaining maritime signal tower in the Nation. It is both a National Engineering marvel and National Historic Landmark.
Historic markers:
new bridge, work in progress, ashton, western cape. this bridge will be slided in position once finished
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.
Martinsburg, West Virginia
Constructed between 1842 and the 1850's
The roundhouse is an amazing survivor of an important era in American engineering and architectural history. Eric DeLony, chief of the National Park Service's Histroic American Engineering Record, has called it 'the most important surviving cast-iron framed building in North America.
From: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shop Complex: Historic Structure Report. By John P. Hankey, August, 2000.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Roundhouse and Shop Complex contains some of the most significant surviving mid-nineteenth century structures in the United States. The complex is an authentic and complete artifact of the American Industrial Revolution. The site and structures - by virtue of their authenticity, scale, completeness, and design - offer a firsthand experience of historic mid-19th century architectural industrial space. The significance of these structures lies both with what they are and how they came about. Each building in the complex incorporates novel and sophisticated engineering solutions within a carefully presented architectural statement. While some of these points may seem subtle, they have quietly served their builders for over 120 years and hidden their significance beneath prosaic functions.
The Roundhouse is the sole surviving cast-iron framed roundhouse and is an important example of mid-19th century industrial building design. Designed by Albert Fink, in collaboration with Benjamin H. Latrobe, it represents an early use of standardized, prefabricated iron structural elements to create an efficient and fire-resistant building.
The Martinsburg Machine and the Frog Shops, while conventional in their construction, are typical of the level of sophistication of many industrial buildings at that time. Both structures used heavy trusses to help support the second floors. This helped to keep the first floor free of obstruction from columns yielding a comparatively large enclosed area. For mid-century rural America, the ability to a have large enclosed space unencumbered with load-bearing columns was an awe-inspiring sight.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
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.
St. Louis, Missouri
Constructed 1892 to 1894
In the early 1900s, Union Station was the hub of passenger railroad traffic in the central United States. It was one of the first stations to serve as a centralized terminal for multiple railroad lines. It originally served 22 rail lines; 13 from the east and nine from the west.
The station's trainshed, 700 feet long and 606 feet wide, used the longest metal roof trusses ever constructed to span 32 sets of tracks. Structural engineer George H. Pegram served as the chief design engineer for the project and used a patented configuration of his own design, known as the Pegram truss.
Union Station offered travelers a rich visual experience. Gilded ribs highlight the barrel-vaulted ceiling in the large, main waiting room; a stained glass window shows scenes of San Francisco, St. Louis, and New York; a great clock tower ascends 232 feet. The station ceased operating as an active train terminal in 1978, and reopened in 1985 as the largest adaptive re-use project in the United States, providing shopping, dining, entertainment, and hotel accommodations.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
Part of Dad's troop in Iraq: EOD + Fire Department. I think this is at Tallil Air Base.
There are the twin towers... I wonder if they still use that for a backdrop when they take pictures.
My dad retires in early 2007.
Michelle Doornbosch is a land use planner and developer. She attended Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology, graduating in 2000. Michelle received her BA from the University of Waterloo in 2011. In 2007, she became a member of the Canadian Association of Planning Technicians (CACPT). She is President and Principal Planner for Brock Development Group, Inc., a position she has held since March of 2018. Visit at : dribbble.com/tags/michelle_doornbosch
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.
For more information on GMC's education experience see www.gmcnetwork.com or follow us on social media.
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
York, Maine
Constructed 1761
Sewall's Bridge is a singular example of an era when wooden trestle bridges carried highway traffic across New England waterways. It is the earliest pile-trestle bridge for which an authentic construction record exists, and the oldest for which builder's drawings survive. Spanning the York River, it was named for Major Samuel Sewall, Jr., the civil engineer who designed and constructed it.
Authorized in 1742, the bridge was delayed 20 years due to a depression and a war with the French Colonies. It remained in continuous use for 173 years, until it was replaced in 1934 by a treated wooden pile structure. The replacement bridge resembles the original, but is wider and stronger to accomodate greater traffic.
The original structure was 270 feet long and 25 feet wide. Its deck was supported by 13 braced bents of four piles each. The bents were assembled on land, floated out to position, and sunk through soft mud to a stable footing. The 14-span bridge included a 30-foot drawspan.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.