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Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
Rigger, Dave Sharpe attaches one of the roof purlins to the new sugar grader building at the Millaquin Sugar Refinery.
Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.
Completed in 1998, it is a steel sculpture of an angel, 20 metres (66 ft) tall, with wings measuring 54 metres (177 ft) across. The wings do not stand straight sideways, but are angled 3.5 degrees forward; Gormley did this to create "a sense of embrace". The angel like much of Gormley's other work is based on a cast of his body.
It stands on the hill of Birtley, at Low Eighton in Lamesley, overlooking the A1 and A167 roads into Tyneside, and the East Coast Main Line rail route, south of the site of Team Colliery.
Work began on the project in 1994, and cost £800,000. Most of the project funding was provided by the National Lottery. The Angel was installed on 15 February 1998.
Due to its exposed location, the sculpture was built to withstand winds of over 100 mph (160 km/h). Thus, foundations containing 600 tonnes (590 long tons; 660 short tons) of concrete anchor the sculpture to rock 70 feet (21 m) below. The sculpture was built at Hartlepool Steel Fabrications Ltd using COR-TEN weather-resistant steel. It was made in three parts—with the body weighing 100 tonnes (98 long tons; 110 short tons) and two wings weighing 50 tonnes (49 long tons; 55 short tons) each—then brought to its site by road. The components were transported in convoy—the body on a 48-wheel trailer—from their construction site in Hartlepool, up the A19 road to the installation site 28 miles (45 km) away; the nighttime journey took five hours and attracted large crowds.
The Angel aroused some controversy in British newspapers, at first, including a "Gateshead stop the statue" campaign, while local councillor Martin Callanan was especially strong in his opposition. However, it has since been considered to be a landmark for North East England and has been listed by one organisation as an "Icon of England". It has often been used in film and television to represent Tyneside, as are other local landmarks such as the Tyne Bridge and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
The sculpture is also humorously known by some local people as the "Gateshead Flasher", because of its location and appearance
Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
The large crane will leave the Integrated Sciences Complex site as ironworkers near the end of installing structural steel. Crews are pouring concrete for the floors in the new building.
Photos by: Harry Brett
The large crane will leave the Integrated Sciences Complex site as ironworkers near the end of installing structural steel. Crews are pouring concrete for the floors in the new building.
Photos by: Harry Brett
Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
The large crane will leave the Integrated Sciences Complex site as ironworkers near the end of installing structural steel. Crews are pouring concrete for the floors in the new building.
Photos by: Harry Brett
The large crane will leave the Integrated Sciences Complex site as ironworkers near the end of installing structural steel. Crews are pouring concrete for the floors in the new building.
Photos by: Harry Brett
Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
Structural steel for the Integrated Sciences Complex arrived on Wednesday, December 21, and the steelworkers have been busy erecting two stories of columns and beams on the north wing. The university community will see the ISC take shape as steel continues to go up and metal decks, concrete slabs and fireproofing are installed through the spring.
Photos by Harry Brett
Crookwell (40 km north-west of Goulburn) was the terminus of a railway branch line from Goulburn which opened in 1902 with the usual facilities such as a station, goods shed, gantry crane, coal stage, water tank and turntable. This railway turntable at Crookwell was made by William Sellers & Co. of Philadelphia, USA, which flourished from 1848 to 1905 and supplied most of the turntables used in this State. It was subsequently strengthened but is now disused and abandoned.
Turntables were the most effective and efficient means of turning a steam locomotive around 180° at the end of a branch line or onto another track in a roundhouse (circular engine shed) for storage or maintenance and repairs. They were supported by a pivot in the centre and wheels or rollers at their ends. Earlier ones were made of cast iron and later ones were of structural steel. They could be taken apart and relocated to other rail yards, which was not unusual.
They came in six standard sizes. Most of them in New South Wales being 50 ft, accounting for 26% of them or 60 ft (56%), as at Crookwell, and being manually operated. The intermediate size was 75 ft (13%) and about half of these were manually operated and half electrically operated. The largest sizes were 90 ft (1%), 100 ft (1%) and 105 ft (3%), all being electrically operated and reserved for the major railway roundhouses at the main rail centres. The Crookwell example is one of the very small number left of the original 149 turntables in the State, which are no longer needed due to most diesel and electric locomotives being double ended, or the branch lines being closed.
Reference: Phillip Simpson, “Historical Guide to New South Wales”, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2020.