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This is the new site for the Forth Valley Collage;Alloa Annex .
Work is well underway with foundations and retaining walls being constructed.Most of the piling work is completed due to limited space on site the remaining piling work will be completed later
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Red boxes mark flat bottoms of vertical columns. Natural lava flows cannot end in the air with flat bottoms. Erosion or cracks cannot produce so many straight and flat sides. If these columns had been formed by cracks in cooling lava, the columns should have fallen/broken during earthquakes long ago. The columns may have been held together by artificial cement. "Many of the columns (in the Giant's Causeway) fit together so closely that it is impossible to insert a knife blade between them. When viewed from above, the causeway looks like a man made street." (quoted from point 5 in primaryfacts.com/2517/giants-causeway-facts/)
In fact, they were artificial columns made by prehistoric human beings. Location: Akun Island, Alaska, USA. Image source:
www.bestphotos.us/photo/akun-island-columnar-basalt-2181.php
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akun_Island
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the 2nd week of September 2017.
Hard to believe - but I've been recording this project now for 5+ years.
Most of the main civil engineering works have ceased along the Slang/Rehills section of the river bank.
The soil-shifters have finished. The main area of land has been seeded and growth is already happening. In selected areas, plants/shrubs have also been planted.
The plan now will be to allow nature to complete the task of reverting this section back to a wild habitat.
The deer, the foxes, the herons, the raptor birds and other associated wildlife can reclaim the banks . . until the planners decide on their next, belated, unnecessary intervention.
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Between the M11 motorway, and the Upper Dargle Road / Hazelwood areas, a stream has run for many years. As well as running from the Fassroe region (west above the M11) this also funnels much of the water run-off from the motorway itself.
There is a culvert running under the road and draining directly into the river opposite The Slang/Rehills.
A branch also runs parallel and through the Egan Business Park before exiting under the road and into the Dargle close to what is identified in historic Ordnance Survey maps as 'Rose Cottage - Laundry'.
There are plans to lay a proper pipe system to channel this water directly across to the Dargle. No doubt a welcome relief to householders along this stretch of road, given that their properties have been victim to the flash flooding that is happening more often due to changes in the meteorological systems, compounded by developments on the opposite side of the motorway.
The downside of this work is the removal of many trees here, and the consequent unwelcome exposure to said properties.
However, recently the contractors have 'filled-in' a large swathe of the previously cleared opening.
To develop this new pipeline, they need to channel a branch pipe under the Upper Dargle Road, discharging into the adjacent Dargle River itself.
This is not a simple 'cut and fill' overnight operation. They have to excavate deeply, pile-drive the cuttings for support, and lay the pipe sections. The plan here is to close off one lane of the road, at a time, while the work proceeds.
This is quite a busy road, with traffic especially heavy during morning and evening rush hour.
Control traffic lights allow contra-flow systems.
This is causing yet more inconvenience for local residents.
Unfortunately, based on previous bad experience with mindless hooliganism, the temporary compound now requires 24-hour security to protect the assembled machinery.
Tech. Sgt. Eric Harper, 51 Civil Engineering Squadron/Fire Department, Osan AB, Korea, talks with firemen after a simulated chemical attack during exercise Foal Eagle, Oct. 28, 1998. Osan AB is conducting a base wide exercise that is designed to test and improve the ability of air base personnel to function in a chemical environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jeffrey Allen) (Released)
The River Walk is a pedestrian park along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas. A major flood along the river in 1921 resulted in 51 deaths. Plans for flood control were developed and included the 1926 construction of the Olmos Dam upriver. Another part of the plan was to bypass of a major bend (the “Great Bend”) in the river in downtown, providing the opportunity for a beautification project that would create the riverwalk.
The original section of the River Walk was built with as part of a New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) project from 1939 to 1941. It included a flood gate to control water between the new river bypass and the Great Bend.
The San Antonio River Walk and Flood Control System was recognized as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1996 by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The River Walk and its surroundings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the San Antonio Downtown and River Walk Historic District (NRHP District No. 100002128).
Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS TX-1)
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the 1st week of November 2017.
Hard to believe - but I've been recording this project now for 5+ years.
Most of the main civil engineering works have ceased along the Slang/Rehills section of the river bank.
The soil-shifters have finished. The main area of land has been seeded and growth is already happening. In selected areas, plants/shrubs have also been planted.
The plan now will be to allow nature to complete the task of reverting this section back to a wild habitat.
The deer, the foxes, the herons, the raptor birds and other associated wildlife can reclaim the banks . . until the planners decide on their next, belated, unnecessary intervention.
A Symposium in "Natural Hazard " led by Ms. Rena Elena Campos
CE GRADUATES BATCH 1996-1997
Carlito B. Oliverio Jr.
Rizalito C. De Castro
Jimmy C. Carcillar
Edwin M.De Castro
Quiroben A. Derano
Robert Jomo C, De Vera
Aisal Zaman khan
Juluis B. Gempis
Alah Babar Isfaq
Leonila A.Jimenez
Amjid Saddique
Wilhelmina S. Somejo
Elahi Zahoor
Eliseo A. Galapate
Jungie D. Jose
Edwin M. Villar
Jaylord U. Ablian
Cesar L. Aguilar
Jonthann Jexter S. Cruz
Allan B. Gaduena
Feliciano F. Guevarra
Alberto C. Lloren Jr.
Muhammad Arif Mumtaz
Muhammad Munir
Floraine T. Nimedes
Timoteo M. Reyes Jr.
Richard M. Tugbo
Rosendo B. Sabino
The Compass Point development around Saunders Ness Road and taking in Mariners Mews and Sextant Avenue was built in the mid-80s forming a quiet, neat upmarket estate on the Isle of Dogs.
As part of the development, two tall blocks of flats are abutted by full height cylindrical towers, framing and echoing the view of silos across the Thames and acting as a small reminder of the estate's industrial past.
Architect Sir Jeremy Dixon's Georgian-inspired designs were built on Dudgeon's Wharf, reclaimed after the closure of the docks.
At the end of Sextant Avenue, a memorial remembers the old Wharf - not for its years of hard labour in the service of heavy industry - but for a reason more poignant and tragic.
Forty years ago the world was looking skywards for news of Nasa's audicious mission to take Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins to the moon.
On July 17, a day after Apollo 11 shot into the skies atop a cone of fire, another explosion took the lives of five fireman, the biggest loss of life suffered by the London Fire Brigade in peace time.
Dudgeon's was a ship building firm in the 1800s and was one of a cluster that prospered on the island - including names such as Ash, Stewart's and Samuda's. At its height, in the early 1860s, it is estimated that the firms on the Isle of Dogs employed up to 15,000 men and boys in the shipyards and engineering firms.
The most iconic of the ships built at these docks was Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Eastern, the largest ship ever built at the time of her launch in 1858.
But the Great Eastern was a last hurrah for ship building on the Thames. The rivers of the North were more efficient and labour and materials were cheaper and in double-quick time large firms of the Thames went bankrupt and tens of thousands were out of a job.
People starved, shipyards became wastelands and revival would take many long painful years.
Some shipbuilding survived by specialising - Yarrow built steam-powered gunboats while other firms turned to ship repair. Shipbuilding skills evolved. Workers produced a diverse range of goods including parts for major civil engineering projects - bridges and gas holders - as well as boilers, engine parts, tanks, propellers and wire rope. Other skills were cannabilised into new industries - sacks and tarpaulins, woodworking and paint, varnishes and chemicals.
Industry survived one way and another for another 100 years of so until the docks and their associated works began disappearing in the 1960s.
The arrival of containers - which London couldn't handle - in the late 60s finally rendered the docklands obsolete.
By the time of the 1969 tragedy, the wharf was a redundant "tank farm" with an array of a hundred or so containers for storing oils and spirit, some up to 200,000 gallons in size. However, these tanks were destined to go as part of the regeneration of the land and demolition contractors had received advice on how to take apart these structures safely.
The demolition was rife with danger and difficulties and firefighters had frequently attended the site after sparks from cutting gear ignited small fires.
Less than two weeks before the fatal explosion, 40 men with eight pumps had tackled a fire on waste oil in a derelict tank and now another call arrived at Millwall Fire Station at 11.21am alerting the emergency services to another fire.
Two appliances were sent from Millwall in F Division and another from Brunswick Road. A foam tender from East Ham was sent later along with a fireboat from Greenwich.
Station Officer Innard, believing the fire to be out when he arrived, decided to put a curtain of water into the open top manhole of Tank 97.
Four other officers joined him on top of the tank to feed in the water. Later reports concluded that this pull of water drew air into the tank, mixing with the flammable vapours.
SO Innard then decided to ensure there was no further fire by opening the bottom manhole. Unable to find a spanner to undo the nuts, it was suggested they should be burned off.
As soon as a workman applied the cutting flame of his torch to the first nut, the vapours inside the tank ignited immediately, blowing the roof off the tank, together with the five firefighters and a work man.
The explosion happened at 11.52. Three appliances were sent from Bethnal Green and Bow. Their role was to collect the bodies.
Remembering the tragedy on a brigade forum, one ex-firefighter wrote: "I had been in the job for seven years when this happened and it really shook us. As you say 'Never forgotten' especially from us guys who could have been involved. Rest easy, mates."
THE VICTIMS
- Temporary Sub Officer Michael Gamble of F23 Millwall, 28, married, 10 years in the brigade.
- Fireman John Victor Appleby of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 23, married, three children, almost five years' service.
- Fireman Terrance Breen of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 37, married with three children, 12 years' service.
- Fireman Paul Carvosso of C25 Cannon Street, aged 23, married, one child, four years' service.
- Fireman Alfred Charles Smee of F23 Millwall, aged 47, one son, 24 years' service.
Civil engineering field is combination of art, creativity and mechanism. Civil engineering is very attractive and awesome discipline for those students who have interest in design, construction and creativity of natural and physical build environment.
Civil Engineering includes designing and development of buildings, road, bridges and many other things. The main duty of civil engineering is design and planning of various structures. The Building in which we are living build and managed by civil engineering which is one of the oldest engineering. A civil engineer can be involved in creating every project from small project to large projects.
VIT Jaipur is the Top Civil Engineering College Jaipur Rajasthan, India, here is the great environment of study, well qualified and experienced faculty and a great Infrastructure and the main thing is college placement.
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the 1st week of November 2017.
I've been recording this project now for 5+ years.
Most of the main civil engineering works have ceased along the Slang/Rehills section of the river bank.
These images show the reclamation works now happening to restore the western end of The People's Park, adjacent to River Lane, which was once the major works compound and a site that proved of great inconvenience to the local residents for the best part of 6 years.
The works units are being shipped out, the machinery moved to other projects, the ground surface is being relaid, and a hoggin path is to be completed around the perimeter of the park.
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the 2nd week of July, 2017.
This drawing is a cropped section of the file '1.9 151-4351 Sections Elevations 2', released by Bray UDC, giving a fisheye view of how the works are designed to protect the riverbed itself, as an adjunct to the works on the railway bridge and it's piers.
Construction Engineering drawings involves planning and execution of the designs from transportation, site development, hydraulic, environmental, structural and geotechnical engineers.Construction drawings facilitate a chronological description of each phase of the construction.
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River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the second week of April 2017.
Most of the main civil engineering works have ceased along the Slang/Rehills section of the river bank.
However, the soil-shifters are at it again.
Smaller operation than before, but a steady process of removing soil, shifting soil and reshaping the banks.
Said it before, and I'll say it again . . . . .
I call it the 'Biggest Sandpit/Playarea' in Wicklow, in Leinster, in Ireland.
The place is a mess. Aesthetically, the uneven flow to the ridges and terraces annoys me.
Along this strip of the riverbank, they are landscaping a strip of land, installing public seating and creating picnic area.
The pedestrian tracks running around are called 'Hoggin paths'.
Nice idea. I hope it is properly used and well maintained.
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'Hoggin' is a compactable groundcover that is composed of a mixture of clay, gravel, and sand or granite dust that produces a buff-coloured bound surface.
The material is aesthetically suited to older properties and is lower maintenance than gravel alone since it does not need regular raking. Once laid, the surface is somewhat permeable to water and therefore does not easily hold puddles or generate rapid surface runoff.
The material is increasingly being used at domestic properties as a low cost and environmentally friendly alternative to concrete and block paving in paths and driveways.
A compacted sub-base of larger crushed stone is often laid prior to the top layer of hoggin, especially if the area to be covered is soft ground, or prone to puddling.
The larger rocks provide a firm base for the hoggin, and improved drainage.
The Ypsilanti Water Tower, commonly referred to as the "Brick Dick," was completed in 1890. The stone structure is listed both on the state register and the National Register of Historic Places. It is also an American Water Landmark, and a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. In 2003 Cabinet Magazine named it the world's most phallic building.
Hereford Railway Station in Hereford, Herefordshire.
When the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway reached Hereford from its initial section from Ludlow, it faced two problem;
1. The existing Hereford Barton station of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway was not big enough to cope with all four railway companies planning on entering the important market town.
2. The entrance route into Hereford from the north required extensive civil engineering.
The resolution was an agreement to create a new joint railway station, called Hereford Barrs Court. This would be a joint standard gauge/broad gauge station, sponsored jointly by the standard-gauge S&HR and the GWR-sponsored Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway. When the Midland Railway–sponsored Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway entered the town, they were given access rights, as was the later GWR-sponsored extension of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway.
In civil engineering preparation for this, and as the only company planning to enter the town from the north, in 1849 the company built a brick works north of Dinmore Hill, which was fed by clay from the earthworks of digging a tunnel south underneath it. In 1852, 2½ years later and having used 3¼ million bricks the tunnel was completed, freight traffic started in July 1852 to provide cash flow. However, construction continued, with the massive earthworks for a cutting to enter Barrs Court started in August 1852.
The plan was to jointly open both stations between all four railways on 6 December 1853, with what was planned to be Railway Fete. However, the first S&HR passenger service arrived on Saturday 28 October, which carried the chairman Mr Ormsby-Gore and engineer Thomas Brassey. As the negotiations and financing of the joint station had taken so long, they arrived at an incomplete facility. The final Victorian Gothic building that still exists today was designed by R.E. Johnson, which opened after the Railway Fete, reported to be attended by 60,000 people. The station opened on 6 December 1853, and the name was simplified to Hereford in 1893.
Hereford Council applied pressure to the LNWR to close Hereford Barton, and after the post-World War I amalgamation of the railways, the London Midland and Scottish Railway agreed conversion of Hereford Barton into a joint GWR/LMS goods depot, with consolidation of all passenger services on the current site. The Hereford Barton loop closed post the Beeching Axe, and the site is now redeveloped as a supermarket.
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the fourth week of April 2017.
Most of the main civil engineering works have ceased along the Slang/Rehills section of the river bank.
However, the soil-shifters are at it again.
Smaller operation than before, but a steady process of removing soil, shifting soil and reshaping the banks.
Said it before, and I'll say it again . . . . .
I call it the 'Biggest Sandpit/Playarea' in Wicklow, in Leinster, in Ireland.
The place is a mess. Aesthetically, the uneven flow to the ridges and terraces annoys me.
Early Spring, and an unusually dry period had re-introduced the dust clouds.
You don't have to be a certified civil engineer to figure out that there are quicker and more efficient ways to move the soil.
Using one excavator, a few dumper-trucks and a single bulldozer is a process not driven by time/cost.
If you 'really' had to complete this work quickly, you'd line up a few 'bigboy' bulldozers . . . . . and shift the soil in days, rather than weeks-months.
Obviously someone has a Plan.
So everyone works to the Plan.
Except that there have obviously been many Plans.
This 'hurdler on the ditch' simply comments on the piecemeal nature of this planning!
Coming up now on 5 years of this work.
Originally built from 1929-1933 as the Union Terminal train station, the building still stands on a prominent location one mile northwest of the city center as one of the last grand scale terminals in the Art Deco style. A masterpiece of planning by architect Paul Cret, who worked with the firm of Fellheimer and Wagner, at its peak, it accomodated 17,000 people and 216 trains daily.
Visitors approach the 10-story, arched, limestone and glass facade of the building from the east through a quarter-mile plaza. The dome is flanked on either side by curving wings. An illuminated fountain, cascade and pool lie in the foreground center. On either side of the main doors, Maxfield Keck’s bas-relief figures symbolize Commerce and Transportation. The inside rotunda of the building spans 188 feet and soars to a peak of 106 feet high. The interior walls are decorated with murals which portray the history of Cincinnati and environs.
In addition to the small Amtrak station, the building now is home to the Cincinnati Museum Center including:
Museum of Natural History and Science
Cincinnati Historical Museum
Cinergy Children's Museum
Linder Family Omnimax Theater
Cincinnati Historical Society Library
In 2007, Cincinnati Union Terminal was ranked #45 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
CE Graduates Batch 1996-1997
Carlito B. Oliverio Jr.
Rizalito C. De Castro
Jimmy C. Carcillar
Edwin M.De Castro
Quiroben A. Derano
Robert Jomo C, De Vera
Aisal Zaman khan
Juluis B. Gempis
Alah Babar Isfaq
Leonila A.Jimenez
Amjid Saddique
Wilhelmina S. Somejo
Elahi Zahoor
Eliseo A. Galapate
Jungie D. Jose
Edwin M. Villar
Jaylord U. Ablian
Cesar L. Aguilar
Jonthann Jexter S. Cruz
Allan B. Gaduena
Feliciano F. Guevarra
Alberto C. Lloren Jr.
Muhammad Arif Mumtaz
Muhammad Munir
Floraine T. Nimedes
Timoteo M. Reyes Jr.
Richard M. Tugbo
Rosendo B. Sabino
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the second week of June 2017.
Hard to believe - but I've been recording this project now for 5 years.
Most of the main civil engineering works have ceased along the Slang/Rehills section of the river bank.
However, the soil-shifters are at it again.
Smaller operation than before, but a steady process of removing soil, shifting soil and reshaping the banks.
You don't have to be a certified civil engineer to figure out that there are quicker and more efficient ways to move the soil.
Using one excavator, a few dumper-trucks and a single bulldozer is a process not driven by time/cost.
If you 'really' had to complete this work quickly, you'd line up a few 'bigboy' bulldozers . . . . . and shift the soil in days, rather than weeks-months.
This 'hurdler on the ditch' simply comments on the piecemeal nature of this planning!
Maybe they're eavesdropping . . . but, suddenly, man-mountains disappear, and level expanses appear.
Civil Engineering? group Staff and Students 1956
Armstrong, R; Bunting, J; Chong, S; Electone, E; Liew Kon Wai; Lim Eng Thong; Nuttall, R; Quazi Mohammed Nazir; Ragunathan, G; Smith, E; Tan Kiah Chin; Tankwan Chye; Wong Chee Yuan; Wong Perk Chorp
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Airmen assigned to the 167th Civil Engineering Squadron conduct hands on Rapid Airfield Damage Repair training at the 167th Airlift Wing, Martinsburg, West Virginia, June 7, 2024. RADR is a multi-step process for quickly repairing airfield surfaces after an attack or natural disaster. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by A1C James DeCicco)
U.S. Air Force Col. Lance Clark, 60th Mission Support Group commander briefs honorary commanders from Travis Air Force Base, Calif., during their tour of the 60th Mission Support Group, Dec. 2, 2016. The purpose of the Travis Air Force Base Honorary Commander Program is to promote relationships between base senior leadership and civilian partners, foster civic appreciation of the Air Force mission and its Airmen, maximize opportunities to share the Air Force story with new stewards, and to communicate mutual interest, challenges, and concerns that senior leaders and civilian stakeholders have in common. (U.S. Air Force photo/Louis Briscese)
Title: Civil Engineering Building - 5
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River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the second week of June 2017.
Hard to believe - but I've been recording this project now for 5 years.
Most of the main civil engineering works have ceased along the Slang/Rehills section of the river bank.
However, the soil-shifters are at it again.
Smaller operation than before, but a steady process of removing soil, shifting soil and reshaping the banks.
You don't have to be a certified civil engineer to figure out that there are quicker and more efficient ways to move the soil.
Using one excavator, a few dumper-trucks and a single bulldozer is a process not driven by time/cost.
If you 'really' had to complete this work quickly, you'd line up a few 'bigboy' bulldozers . . . . . and shift the soil in days, rather than weeks-months.
This 'hurdler on the ditch' simply comments on the piecemeal nature of this planning!
Maybe they're eavesdropping . . . but, suddenly, man-mountains disappear, and level expanses appear.