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Photo shows UOW Professor of Civil Engineering and Research Director of Centre for Geomechanics and Railway Engineering, Buddhima Indraratna..
Civil engineering sophomore Alison Willie talks about the danger of ocean waste and ways to clean up the sea.
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
San Francisco to Oakland, California
Constructed 1933-1936
Ever since the Gold Rush days of the 1850s, San Francisco Bay area residents and businesses had lobbied for a bridge joining San Francisco and Oakland. Early studies indicated that the bridge was impractical and infeasible; but in October 1929, President Herbert Hoover (himself an engineer) and California Governor C. C. Young appointed the Hoover-Young San Francisco Bay Bridge Commission to study the question more closely. The Commission concluded not only that the bridge was necessary to the development of the area, but that it was "entirely feasible from economic and construction viewpoints."
Local residents marveled as the Bay Bridge went up in two colossal segments, linking Yerba Buena Island to the two shores. The bridge officially opened on November 12, 1936, with a four-day celebration of one of the most remarkable engineering feats of its time.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.
After mixing, pouring, reinforcing and rising early each morning to water their concrete cylinder experiments for the past week, 55 students from Hudson Bend Middle School traveled to a University of Texas at Austin civil engineering laboratory to destroy their work.
Covering the male mold of our canoe with concrete.
Concrete Canoe Team - American Society of Civil Engineers
The old road bridge was destoyed by the floods of November 2009. Now at last the new bridge is nearing completion: the final span was being carefully slotted in to place when we were there, Thursday 3rd May 2012.
Washington, D.C.
Constructed 1793-1800
The United States Capitol is among the most symbolically important and architecturally impressive buildings in the nation. Construction of the original Capitol began in 1793, but it has been through several additions and alterations. Over its lifetime, the Capitol building has been built, burnt, rebuilt, extended, and restored.
The building was considered the most important American construction project of its time. Several innovative engineering techniques were employed, particularly once Benjamin Latrobe was appointed Architect of the Capitol in 1803. His plan revisions included vaulting the ceilings of the north and south wings to provide support for future building additions.
For more information on civil engineering history, go to www.asce.org/history.