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I don't normally do going away shots, but the consist is frankly more interesting than the motive power!
66108 heads north past the site of the former Glendon South Junction, North of Kettering. The line peeling off to the right heads towards Corby, then Manton Junction on the Leicester to Peterborough line.
The working is the 8:00 West Hampstead Thameslink to Toton North Yard Engineers, Sunday 10.3.13
Riff, PD#18245, a land art monument celebrating 100 years of the Zuiderzee Act
A collaboration of artist Bob Gramsma and engineer WaltGalmarini AG
Riff, PD#18245 is a site-specific work, a Land Art monument. The tectonic work looks like it is emerging from the natural-cultural landscape and, at the same time, helps to frame it. A mound of soil was heaped up on a foundation of slanted pillars. Large cavities were dug into the mound and then cast in concrete, thus creating an inverted sculptural reproduction of the void in the mound. Afterwards, the mound was removed, and the concrete sculpture cleaned of loose soil and sand. The result is a large-scale work, supported by three stalactite-shaped concrete volumes and the pillars of the foundation, which are partially visible. The monument is in context with the horizon, the landscape and the sunset. A stairway leads up to the top of the structure, inviting visitors to overview its surface.
The process of digging uses the labour of construction to create traces of landscape – space without architecture. The sculpture re-interprets the material and historical conditions of the site. The slightly slanted volume echoes characteristics of the Polder, like dikes, ditches, canals, plots, embankment, drainage, extraction, renaturation and depilution (vertical segregation). At the same time, Riff, PD#18245 also appears foreign in this environment – a hull resting on slanted pillars, aligned with the dikes. It is reminiscent of other interventions in this particular landscape: water management, flood protections, the signs of the transition from fishing to agriculture, and the renaturation of the landscape. It literally emerges from, and melds into, the artificial topography, the geology, the IJsselmeer polder and the Zuiderzee bed.
At the same time, Riff, PD#18245 is a trace of the artistic and the production process, outlining an interstice between the present and the past. The trace as an index of the working process creates a nexus between time and spatiality. The monumental blueprint of an excavation, which has long since disappeared, turns into a poetic sculpture, a hollow resonant body with a natural patina growing over time. Riff, PD#18245 looks southwest westward across the renatured land in the direction of the sunset and the amusement parks, providing a visual link to the Veluwemeer and the Flevopolder, the largest man-made island and its physical vastness.
Riff, PD#18245 becomes a space for the audience to project, or to reanimate, their understanding of the site, its history and its present. The sculpture is at once a tool to reflect on history and an incitement for the viewer to dream those stories. It is a way of visualizing both absence and presence, a sculpted ghost, or spirit, that opens up a new space for rethinking the relationship between material and memory. It is a residue of memory, honouring the past, while serving the present. By means of the elemental exposure of the earth, the missing cast, and the past that it encapsulates, we are reminded that earth and its history — as well as the cosmic forces or energies shaping it — are beyond human intelligibility. But we can try to understand, or appreciate, their unfathomable presence in time as we access this exhumed vestige.
Production
After creating a foundation by driving piles deep into the ground, a huge mound (70 x 40 x 7 m, 15.000 m3) was heaped up on top of it, consisting of sand and clay from the agricultural land and from the bottom of the Zuiderzee on the site. A wide sinkhole, reaching 2 m under sea level, and two narrow deep pits, reaching down to the level of the pillars, were dug into the mound. Reinforcement structures were built, and concrete poured and pneumatically projected into the cavities to produce an inverted sculptural reproduction of the empty space. After the concrete had dried, the heaped-up soil was bulldozed away and returned to build the new environment for the New Nature Programme. An immersive sculpture, whose platform hovers above the ground, is revealed. A small staircase cuts into the platform. The piece is approx. 37,5 m long, 13 m wide and 7 m high.
Using the local soil as false work, as well as formwork, and reusing it after the production for the new reserve is a very ecological, as well as economical, casting technique. It allows to produce an intricate seamless hollow concrete cast in one piece. After the structure was cleaned, it is ready for the public and the winds to take over. Within time, an ecosystem will evolve on the inside of the hollow body, and the surface will be partly covered with moss, chalk, and salt efflorescence. Little gaps in the shell enable insects and animals to build viable habitats inside the hollow body. The whole production process was open to the public to provide an in-depth vision and understanding in the making of Riff, PD#18245. The sculpture itself thus starts to generate memories in the minds of the audience – a process that will continue well into the future as weather and nature gradually take over the sculpture, altering its shape and functions over time, while the wind is playing on its resonant body.
Text: Martin Jaeggi
Next to the new Portrack Viaduct is a collection of monuments to famous Scots, each one made of recycled parts of the original viaduct.
Gear: Canon A95
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The Parish Church of St. James, Wollaston, Stourbridge. By G. Bidlake of Wolverhampton, the distinctive blue bricks almost certainly dug and fired locally. Musicians arriving for rehearsal.
FORENSIC ENGINEER
is a person who investigate materials, products, structures or components that fail or do not operate or function as intended, causing personal injury or damage to property. The consequences of failure are dealt with by the law of product liability. The field also deals with retracing processes and procedures leading to accidents in operation of vehicles or machinery. The subject is applied most commonly in civil law cases, although may be of use in criminal law cases. Generally the purpose of a Forensic engineering investigation is to locate cause or causes of failure with a view to improve performance or life of a component, or to assist a court in determining the facts of an accident. It can also involve investigation of intellectual property claims, especially patents.(wiki)
It is also a division in project management to gather data and simulate construction history using Project Management software like Primavera and paper flow in order to aid Extreme Project Managers to investigate project delays, materials failure and cost analysis.
Spc. Deanne Dellamano of the Florida Army National Guard's 779th Engineer Battalion prepares a batch of oatmeal chocolate-chip cookies during the Phillip A. Connelly Food Service competition in Tallahassee, Fla., Feb. 2, 2014. Photo by Master Sgt. Thomas Kielbasa
Server engineer Zack Sheppard glows with excitement for his weekend project.
(photo via superstar platform intern Alice Lee)
U.S. Army combat engineers assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, and Iraqi contractors level the ground and fill sandbags at Hamam al-Alil, Iraq, Feb. 18, 2017. The 2nd BCT, 82nd Abn, Div., deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, enables their Iraqi security forces partners through the advise and assist mission, contributing planning, intelligence collection and analysis, force protection, and precision fires to achieve the military defeat of ISIS. The Falcon Brigade moved a force into Hamam al-Alil to continue support to the Iraqi federal police as the offensive for West Mosul begins. CJTF-OIR is the global Coalition to defeat ISIS. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull)
#6 is actually quite a good composition, even though I say so myself. Totally non-cropped. Pure luck.
Oh man, these guys were a pleasure. We got seated right at the front of the train at New Orleans Square and I started snapping pictures. They saw me and I guess got a kick out of it, cause they started posing and smiling for me. :D
Then their friend/coworker started walking up on the left side there and was like, "Don't waste your film on those two old guys!" Haha. I was like, "It's digital!" But I don't think they heard me. :)
Trivia: The guys (and gals) who work the Disneyland Railroad have to get on a waiting list to get in. They do it for the sheer joy of how awesome it is to run the real life steam trains that run on the track. (I thought they worked as volunteers, but I've been informed that isn't the case and they do get paid.)
Mar. 14, 2020, in Orlando, Fla.
(U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Maria Henderson, 204th Public Affairs Detachment)
Spc. Erika Valento, 829th Engineer Company, checks a detainee's blood sugar with a portable glucometer while making her rounds in the Remembrance II Theater Internment Facility at Camp Cropper. Valento works as part of a medical team that administers health care at the wire for over 3,000 Camp Cropper detainees. Photo provided by the 829th Engineer Company.
15. Friday 10th June 2011
I got incredibly dirty on watch this evening. We had a fuel leak, and then I traced pipes underneath the deckplates.
A very CBA photo. I forgot to take my camera to dinner and nothing interesting was happening
Engineer 754 passing through Bispham for Fleetwood stopping on the way at Thornton Gate. 5th May 2019.
Jim "Pee Wee" Martin and Doug Barber presented "From Toccoa To Bavaria: A WWII Experience" to The Engineers Club of Dayton on Tuesday, December 20, 2016.
Mar. 14, 2020, in Orlando, Fla.
(U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Maria Henderson, 204th Public Affairs Detachment)
"Engineers Without Borders Portland State Chapter is a student chapter of Engineers Without Borders USA, dedicated to assisting developing communities around the world. "
On January 21, 2010, a team of 10 French-speaking engineers traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to help the UN assess the safety of buildings – principally, hospitals and food storage facilities – damaged by the January 12, 7.0M earthquake.
Mechanical Engineering–Engineering Mechanics Department, Michigan Technological University
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Personnel and vehicles with the 878th Engineer Battalion, 648th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Georgia Army National Guard assemble at battalion headquarters in Augusta, Georgia, in preparation for mobilization to Louisiana in support of Hurricane Ida response operations Sept. 1, 2021. Engineer companies from across the state will mobilize with heavy equipment and conduct debris clearance operations. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Maj. William Carraway)
swindon to swindon
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seen here at twerton meadows,between bath/bristol
FEG 888D we bought S/h from P'borough Engineers.Nearly always in trouble with the engine. My Cortina ONV 933F is parked alongside
LOS ANGELES — Employees from around the Los Angeles District gathered for the annual Engineer Day and Awards Ceremony at Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area near Irwindale, Calif., June 24.
Los Angeles District Commander Col. Mark Toy welcomed everyone and mentioned that as a USMA graduate he was very pleased with the motto selection, Duty, Honor, Country, the motto of West Point. He said it is also the District’s foundation as we are Building Strong and Taking Care of People.
With 90 employees receiving length of service certificates ranging from ten to 45 years it is clearly appropriate as a tribute to them and the thousands of Soldiers and Civilians serving in 39 countries around the world.
The day featured “County Fair” type events for kids of all ages and several teambuilding challenges with the "Future Chiefs" defeating "The Chiefs" seven to three in Ultimate Frisbee. The 2011 Picnic Committee ensured a wide range of activity and a raffle drawing to close out the day with prizes like iPad, LCD TV and gift certificates.
June is an important month for Army and Americans. Flag Day and the Army’s birthday on June 14 and the reason for Engineer Day, George Washington's appointing the first Army engineers on June 16, 1775.
Mar. 14, 2020, in Orlando, Fla.
(U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Maria Henderson, 204th Public Affairs Detachment)