Civil and Structural Everything in this wonderful world of ours just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Civil and structural engineering helps shape todays world. Whether it's towering skyscrapers or bridges spanning unfathomable distances, if it's newsworthy you'll no doubt see it here.
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Daniel Libeskind has proposed a tower next to Manhattan’s Madison Square with huge multifloor gashes hacked out of its tubular form. Were it to be built, it would be a crude and unavoidable reminder of the horrors of 9/11.
Is it Daniel’s revenge? After all, he has dutifully defended the master plan at the World Trade Center as his vision was turned into a dour, money-sucking melange. For his pains, he was never asked to do a building at the site.
Elad Properties, when it was raking in record sums on the sale of apartments in the Plaza Hotel, may have thought that its golden touch could conjure one of the tallest and most daring towers of the condo boom.
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Tuesday 6 January, 2009 05:39 PM |
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Although Jacksonville's Rails to Trails project and its pedestrian bridge have come under fire locally, the bridge over N.C. 24 recently garnered statewide attention after a Raleigh engineering firm received an award for its work on it.
HNTB North Carolina received an engineering excellence award in the Structures and Bridges category from The American Council of Engineering Companies of North Carolina in December. |
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Tuesday 6 January, 2009 09:38 AM |
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Simulation of a massive Southern California quake suggests about 5 steel high-rise buildings would collapse. But many engineers say other buildings are riskier and should receive priority in retrofit plans.
Modern steel buildings have long been considered among the most sturdy in the event of a major earthquake. But a model of a massive quake in Southern California has sparked debate among scientists and engineers over whether these structures are more vulnerable than previously thought. |
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Friday 2 January, 2009 07:45 AM |
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The engineering design challenges of ShoWare Center started below the ground and continued up to the building’s highest point.
The project’s tight budget and restricted schedule also complicated design: the city of Kent wanted a lot of arena for their money, and they wanted it in time for the 2008 Thunderbird hockey season. Starting in early 2007, the game was on, and Magnusson Klemencic Associates, the project’s structural and civil engineer, worked with LMN Architects to develop a winning strategy. |
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Thursday 18 December, 2008 03:05 PM |
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Belt-and-braces ' approach is costing design and build clients dearly, says managing director at civil and structural engineering consultancy Paul Waite Associates, Paul Waite.
These are undoubtedly intensely challenging times in which we live and work.
But while such pressures may cause us to behave in unorthodox ways, even the biggest downturn for many a decade can't explain the emergence of a disturbing trend in our industry. |
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Wednesday 17 December, 2008 01:32 PM |
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There is an old saying, "The devil is in the details." That is the challenge in bringing to fruition a major expansion and renovation of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, a venerable 40-year-old institution that celebrates art, history and culture in Alaska'slargest city.
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Monday 15 December, 2008 12:34 PM |
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Abu Dhabi, armed with oil wealth and a $500 billion spending plan, is providing the escape route for British Engineers as their bets on Dubai’s construction boom turn sour.
Dubai’s focus on financial services, luxury homes and mass tourism attracted U.K. skyscraper designers and road-network planners like WS Atkins Plc and builders including Carillion Plc. It also made the emirate dependent on industries that have been hit hard by the economic slump. |
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Friday 12 December, 2008 04:55 PM |
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Natural disasters can be unpredictable and devastating, but some inventive emergency-shelter designs are proving that resourcefulness can triumph over seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, can devastate a community, but skilled architects and design engineers are working hard to confront the challenges of disaster planning. Designing emergency shelters can be particularly tricky, as they must meet a range of intersecting requirements, including quick assembly and disassembly, cost-efficient materials, suitability for human habitation and resistance to environmental conditions.
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 2008 Disaster Housing Plan, "[f]inding and providing the actual structures to house displaced disaster victims during this interim housing period is the most tangible challenge that emergency management officials, at all levels of government, face."
Due to these challenges, the third step in the FEMA plan is to "[e]mploy innovative forms of interim housing," which is where creative engineering and design step in. |
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Thursday 11 December, 2008 04:45 AM |
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Home foundations and frames built of a lightweight composite material that may bend - but won't break - in a hurricane and can simply float on the rising tide of a storm's coastal surge. |
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Wednesday 10 December, 2008 10:48 AM |
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Recent simulated earthquake tests conducted by UC San Diego engineers are expected to lead to retrofit schemes that make historic buildings safer. The structural engineers tested a structure similar to those that were built in California in the 1920s that have masonry-infilled walls and reinforced concrete frames.
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Tuesday 9 December, 2008 05:24 AM |
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To create what is being billed as one of the world’s most environmentally conscientious skyscrapers, the building’s developer, the Durst Organization, encouraged its architects to tap waste from some of the world’s dirtiest industries.
The concrete used at One Bryant Park , the angled 54-story tower that opened this year at 42nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, used 45 percent less cement than would normally be used, replaced by slag from steel mills. |
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Monday 8 December, 2008 08:20 PM |
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The durability of straw bale houses is being put to the test by construction specialists at Nottingham Trent University. Researchers are monitoring the buildings – which have seen a surge in popularity over the last ten years – to assess the long term risk of serious degradation and the potential consequences for homeowners.
They also want to gauge the effectiveness of the various technologies being used to protect the straw bales from decay. |
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Wednesday 3 December, 2008 12:57 AM |
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A pedestrian and bicycle bridge is finally forming over Lake Hodges, but it'll be a few more months before the 990-foot span is ready for use.
Eighty-seven precast concrete panels, each 14-feet wide and 16-inches deep, have been attached, one at a time, to cables supporting the slim structure, using of a 60-foot-tall crane. |
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Saturday 29 November, 2008 09:46 PM |
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Take a look at the exterior facades and interior walls of your house. There's a good chance that you will see elements -- roof gables, classically styled columns, crown moldings, perhaps an arched Palladian window -- whose prevalence in American architecture can be traced to Andrea Palladio , a Renaissance architect. |
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Sunday 23 November, 2008 11:36 AM |
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The current areas under construction on Nakheel's Waterfront will stay on schedule to fulfil the obligations made to customers, said its managing director.
"We are going ahead with everything that is already under construction since we have an obligation to our customers who we have pre-sold to," said Matt Joyce in an exclusive interview with Emirates Business.
"We have to deliver our promise. We are currently focusing on all activity between Sheikh Zayed Road and the ocean. The rest of the construction is on but not of built form." |
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Wednesday 19 November, 2008 09:22 PM |
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Drew Fox, Priyen Patel and Michael Dopler started building a bridge and then they got worried.
Yes, the design was innovative. Yes it was beautiful. The trouble started from the bottom. It lacked "a stable enough foundation," Fox said.
So the three eighth-graders from the Sussex Academy of Arts and Sciences slid the bits and pieces under a desk and went back to the design stage -- quickly sketching a new plan.
From failure, came success -- a truss bridge that wasn't especially pretty or even all that innovative. |
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Monday 17 November, 2008 04:19 PM |
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The Interstate 35W bridge collapsed because of forces so great a massive piece of steel was stretched as if it were latex, eventually ripping apart and causing one of the biggest transportation disasters in U.S. history.
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Saturday 15 November, 2008 11:42 AM |
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Christian Menn, call your office. There you will find a message from the Peace Bridge Authority, asking you to rework your previously winning design for a new companion bridge over the Niagara River now that the allowable height has been determined. The long-delayed project improving the flow of traffic between the United States and Canada must get moving again. |
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Monday 10 November, 2008 11:58 PM |
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James Law Cybertecture has hatched a breakthrough in gravity-defying architectural feats. The C70 Cybertecture Egg is currently under construction in Mumbai, India, for Vijay Associates Developers, and the project will house both residential and commercial spaces. |
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Monday 10 November, 2008 12:06 PM |
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An alternate redesign proposal for the Harrison Avenue bridge that could save the city a significant amount of money was offered at Monday’s City Council meeting.
The concept was presented by Ruben Clarson of Ruben Clarson Consulting of St. Petersburg at the request of Councilmember Rob Baldwin. Clarson’s option for the bridge is an alternative to the complete redesign proposed by Elite Engineering Solutions of Tampa. That proposal would cost an estimated $380,000 vs. $225,000 for Clarson’s approach. |
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Thursday 6 November, 2008 03:14 PM |
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For the design of the seismic support system inside L.A. Live’s 56-story hotel and condo tower, Nabih Youssef looked to a place one might not suspect. “It all comes from battleship engineering,” he told the crowd today at a well-attended event put on by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).
Youssef, president of structural engineering firm Nabih Youssef Associates , was speaking of the choice to use steel-plate sheer walls to provide the tower’s strength. |
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