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GALVESTON, Texas (June 4, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District celebrated the Corps’ and U.S. Army’s 240th birthday with an awards ceremony to recognize the Employee, Engineer, Regulator and Supervisor of the Year, induct a USACE Galveston District retiree into the Gallery of Distinguished Civilian Employees as well as to honor staff for their contributions to the community, state and nation.
Went to play pool with coworkers at Heuther Hotel... spotted 3 of them drinking behind the lamp, so I grabbed the nearest camera ...Tristan's. Due to lack of planning the original is *very* noisy - downloaded Lightroom 3 trial for it's denoise feature, very impressive.
[pool w/ coworkers; Heuther Hotel, Waterloo; Aug 18/2010]
An epic trip - 6-hours, 30-miles from Ouray to Lake City, Colorado - with rough rocky patches, switchbacks, shelf roads, and sweeping vistas all the way, reaching almost 13,000 feet at the summit. A Jeep Badge of Honor trail for good reason.
From TrailsOffroad.com: In the late 1800’s, miners started digging for gold, silver, lead and other ore in the San Juan Mountains. They needed a way to get people and the ore out to the nearby towns. Those roads left by the long-abandoned mines are now some of the most famous off-road trails in the books. Engineer Pass, a 30-mile trail, is one of them and is part of a trail now known as the Alpine Loop.
There are multiple mine ruins to view and explore the grounds of along the way including the Hard Tack Mine and the Michael Breen Mine.
Mile after mile provides new and more amazing views of Colorado and the San Juan mountains. Oh Point and the official summit have breath-taking panoramas of the mountains.
This trail goes well above the timberline at just over 12,900’. With the altitude comes stunning views of the mountains to the north including the Uncompahgre, Coxcomb, Wetterhorn and Wildhorse mountain peaks. The view is so expansive at Oh Point that on a very clear day, you might be able to see all the way to Utah if you turn your eyes to the west.
Specialists performing a variety of roles such as building and repairing defenses and fortifications, as well as repairing vehicles and weapons
GALVESTON, Texas (June 4, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District celebrated the Corps’ and U.S. Army’s 240th birthday with an awards ceremony to recognize the Employee, Engineer, Regulator and Supervisor of the Year, induct a USACE Galveston District retiree into the Gallery of Distinguished Civilian Employees as well as to honor staff for their contributions to the community, state and nation.
GALVESTON, Texas (June 4, 2015) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District celebrated the Corps’ and U.S. Army’s 240th birthday with an awards ceremony to recognize the Employee, Engineer, Regulator and Supervisor of the Year, induct a USACE Galveston District retiree into the Gallery of Distinguished Civilian Employees as well as to honor staff for their contributions to the community, state and nation.
This photo has problems with water spots, but I like to show the 4wheel drive trails in Colorado. It just happens it was raining and snowing the day I was on the road, so if you don't like it I understand.
The camera actually is making the road look flatter than it actually is. Usually I go to the edge of the canyon to do this part of the road, the left is extremely rough, but with the snow and rain I had to keep more in the middle.
Hope to see you on the trails someday.
Model for Skipton House
The collaboration between client London & Regional, structural engineers Heyne Tillet Steel, MEP Engineers Atelier 10, planning consultants SM Planning and architects Piercy&Company will transform the existing Skipton House building in Elephant and Castle.
An emphasis on sustainability and adaptive re-use led to the strategy of retaining six of the current seven storey steelwork structure and using this to support a six floor steel and cross laminated timber extension. The architecture reflects this structural stratification, with a raw and industrial aesthetic contrasted with warmer toned elements and tactile surfaces.
The 280,000 sqft uplift in area will allow the building to contribute 490,000 sqft of workspace to Elephant and Castle. The large work floors have been flexibly designed to accommodate both large and small businesses, and a triple height garden on the 7th floor provides a generous and distinctive amenity space to the building, with dramatic views over London.
The scheme will both enhance public space to the south of the building and create a new flexible exhibition, retail and foyer space within the building on the ground floor of a central atrium. Whilst the building is a commercially-led scheme, the ground level is conceived as a public platform for cultural events, exhibitions and performances. Inspired by the theories of Cedric Price, the space has been designed to be robust and completely flexible, with elements such as a gantry crane and a cascading stair to combine a theatricality with a calm pragmatism.
The project embraces the principles of a circular economy reusing and refurbishing rather than demolishing and building anew. The use of responsibly sourced CLT structure for the extension further supports this goal, while adding warmth and character to the building. The ambitious embodied carbon reduction agenda is supplemented by a new high-performance building envelope that will minimise operational energy use. Features such as the vertical fins on the extension will provide solar control and add texture to the building façade, while allowing expansive views and ample daylight into the office space.
“We designed the workspaces to be adaptable in terms of internal vertical connectivity and subdivision. We also worked to soften the distinction between tenant and landlord space so that tenants feel connected to the experience of the building as a whole. Workspaces are collected around the theatre like central atria,
cascading stair, gardens and events spaces creating a campus atmosphere. There is a purposeful modesty to the architecture in terms of structure, palette and detailing, reflecting on the direction of workspaces in the face of dramatic changes in both behaviour and economics.” Stuart Piercy, Founding Director.
[PiercyandCo.com]
Supermodels - an exhibition of super architectural models by the Piercy&Co studio - opens 25 November at Regent Quarter, Kings Cross. Piercy&Co will install eight moving and animated models across the eerie setting of an empty central London building site. Supermodels represents the distillation of 20 years of the studio’s design thinking around the importance of the haptic, sensorial and experiential in architecture.
The mechanical automata, projection mapping, sound, light and scent employed by Piercy&Co in Supermodels are not the everyday techniques and products of an architectural project. Rather, they are a creative body of work and an experiment in how far the model can be pushed as a tool for communicating architectural ideas. The models were made over a five year period in Piercy&Co's London studio by the architectural team, between and around projects.
Each super model is based on a building by Piercy&Co - some built, some unbuilt - and abstracted to capture the kernel of the idea behind the building. The ‘coming alive’ of the models through film, sound and movement plays into the mysterious allure of objects with a miniature life of their own - the dolls house, the cuckoo clock, the model railway. The evocation of delight is intentionally egalitarian - an exploration of a mode of architectural communication that is ageless and universal. Supermodels seek to reconnect digital and physical worlds through a childlike sense of wonder and unfiltered joy.
[piercyandco.com]
Jennar Peart the orion representitive on the team, and station engineer Jayce work together to open the sealed door.
Away Mission WP-3, 24 March 2511
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Opening reception of the exhibition “Honoring the Cuban Engineer” at the University of Miami’s Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion. Organized by the Cuban Heritage Collection of the University of Miami Libraries with the Association of Cuban Engineers and the Cuban-American Association of Civil Engineers, the exhibition examines the history of engineering in Cuba and highlights the accomplishments of Cuban engineers in the diaspora. The exhibition will be on display through August 2014