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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A group of UQ students have won an international award for the intuitive design of an emergency bamboo shelter, which could be your saving grace when a natural disaster strikes.
The UQ team's sustainable structure recently won third place in the student contest organised by the International Association for Shells and Spatial Structures (IASS) , for a Light Weight Structure with a Sustainable Approach.
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Thursday 30 October, 2008 04:39 AM |
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Hörmann UK's revolutionary design of shelter wall has been installed at a new 525,000 sq ft warehouse and distribution facility in Corby
The 28 acre Mitchell Road site was funded by The UK Logistics Fund and jointly developed with Rugby based Greatline Developments ltd. The UK Logistics Fund is the UK's largest Distribution Warehouse fund and a joint venture between Hermes Real Estate and Legal & General Property.
Corby was identified as an important emerging location within the distribution warehousing industry because of good labour availability and a location that provides easy access to various major motorways and all of the east coast ports |
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Saturday 18 October, 2008 04:23 AM |
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Structures of contemporary high-rise buildings, though often limited by material capacities, dynamic lateral forces, and legal constraints, have recently undergone a renaissance of investigation. The list of known structural types such as moment frames, braced frames, trussed tubes, and shear wall systems has been expanded to include new morphologies and materials including non-metric cellular formations, exoskeletal lattices, and next-generation carbon fiber composite networks. |
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Tuesday 14 October, 2008 04:08 PM |
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MEED reported that Saudi Arabia local Najm al Jazeera Contracting Company a subsidiary of Al-Arrab Contracting Company has won a SAR 1 billion (USD 266 million) contract for the construction of a 300MW power plant in Tabuk in the northwest of the kingdom.
The project duration is two years and the plant is expected to be operational by October 2010, after which it will provide power to Tabuk and its neighboring areas. |
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Monday 13 October, 2008 10:24 PM |
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The Government is moving full speed ahead with its billion-dollar plans to construct a man-made island off the Oropouche coast in the Gulf of Paria, to accommodate heavy, gas-based industries.
The National Energy Corporation (NEC) hired an Italian engineering firm, Technital, in July, to conduct the preliminary design work for the man-made industrial island.
It is proposed that the project, which is being called the Oropouche Bank Reclamation, will be be an estimated 1,400 hectares (about 3,500 acres).
The island will be located five kilometres offshore and directly opposite the Mosquito Creek cremation site.
The NEC’s intention to construct the offshore island, which is also called Otaheite Bank, was publicised when Prime Minister Patrick Manning, in a televised Christmas Day address to the nation in 2006, announced that the Government was discontinuing all plans to establish an Alcoa aluminium smelter at Chatham in Cedros. |
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Monday 13 October, 2008 06:22 PM |
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Bridges don't get much smaller than one carrying Ridge Road over a Huron River tributary in Huron County's Fairfield Township.
"It's only 17 feet long. Even at 20 miles an hour, it's like half a second to cross it," said Douglas Nims, an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Toledo.
But Mr. Nims and several of his students were there to observe when the Huron County Engineer's Office installed a replacement last month, and they will be back in the future to take readings from an array of sensors built into the structure.
That's because the new Ridge Road bridge is not made of steel or concrete or even wood.
It's plastic, reinforced with fiber glass. The only metal on it is the guardrails. Inside are 16 gauges to measure the strain placed on the bridge by the loads that cross it, and eight that measure deflection - the degree to which it bounces or is pushed around by traffic. |
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Wednesday 8 October, 2008 05:09 AM |
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At first glance, engineer Félix Candela's creations seem more like sculptures than buildings. Composed of thin sheets of pale concrete, the vaulted ceilings and scalloped roof lines evoke the delicate curves of sun-bleached seashells -- not the sturdiness of steel-and-concrete slabs.
Yet sturdy they are. They're so sound, in fact, that a group of students led by Maria Garlock, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton, has spent the past three summers building models and studying how the Spanish-born Candela blended art and engineering. |
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Tuesday 7 October, 2008 04:38 PM |
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Most of the buildings were run-down and in poor condition but the site was in a prime location. Operon acquired four of the properties for demolition in preparation for a smart five-storey scheme of 32 apartments, plus a bar, restaurant and two retail units.
The design by Huddersfield architect Above & Beyond, with its striking facade in Corten steel, will ensure the building becomes a landmark for the area. But before construction could commence, Operon had to consider the two buildings at either end of the site.
Since the terrace was originally built as a single structure, demolition of the four middle properties would leave those on either side unsupported liable to collapse.
They both needed some form of temporary shoring until the structural steelwork for the new building was in place and capable of supporting them.
Of course, whatever support was chosen, it would have to occupy space within the site. That created a problem as Operon needed to carry out a reduced dig to three metres below ground to create a new basement. |
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Wednesday 1 October, 2008 04:38 PM |
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Cumberland County is making progress toward getting safe public drinking water to homes with contaminated wells.
An engineering firm has been hired to determine the best means to provide public water to the Southpoint subdivision, off Chickenfoot Road in Gray’s Creek.
The firm, Koonce, Noble and Associates of Lumberton, also has been hired to provide a design and cost estimate for the extension of a water line to residents with contaminated wells on Brooklyn Circle, off U.S. 301 near Hope Mills.
And a $3 million federal grant has been authorized — but not yet appropriated — to provide sewer service to the Overhills Park subdivision near Spring Lake. The neighborhood has been hampered by failing septic tanks for years.
All three areas were featured in a five-day investigative report by The Fayetteville Observer in February.
Before the report’s conclusion, the county established the Safe Water Task Force. The primary mission is to study and map contaminated areas, get clean water to people suffering the most, identify public water providers and explore ways to get safe water countywide.
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Sunday 28 September, 2008 11:40 AM |
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Recently, about a dozen UVA students found themselves sleeping out in their professor's back yard in temporary shelters made out of cans and cardboard. A clever new UVA housing option ? A punishment for violating the Honor Code?
Actually, it was a legitimate design-build contest, which had UVA architecture, engineering, and environmental science students building five temporary shelters out of recycled and reclaimed materials in preparation for ecoMOD4, the award-winning design series that aims to prove that prefabricated houses can be attractive, well-built, enviromentally friendly, and affordable. Indeed, talk about affordable housing-- students were only allowed to spend $10 on their shelter, had to put it up in less than two hours, and the entire structure had to be broken down and recycled the next day.
"It was a way to build teamwork and get our hands dirty as we start ecoMOD4," says architecture Professor John Quale, director of the ecoMod projects, who offered up his back yard to the designing vagabonds. Quale describes one shelter made entirely of newspapers and aluminum cans cut up to make a roofing material, others that used bamboo or reclaimed plastic bags and sheathing ironed together to make an exterior skin, and one that was a geodesic dome made out of reclaimed cardboard from boxes. |
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Friday 26 September, 2008 10:24 AM |
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Although it is no longer the world's tallest building after being overtaken by the Burj Dubai in July last year, the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan's capital has kept its appeal with visitors.
It is still the highest man-made structure in South Asia, and, as such, attracts visitors not only with its bamboo-like structure, but also its most imposing feature: The building accommodates the world's heaviest so-called mass damper in the shape of a giant golden sphere that hangs on enormous steel cables directly below the roof of the building at a height of approximately 500 metres above street level. |
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Monday 22 September, 2008 04:01 PM |
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The Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone Authority (DTMFZA) yesterday announced it has selected a leading international structural analysis and earthquake engineering software for the evaluation of all high-rise towers under its jurisdiction.
Developed by Computers and Structures Inc (CSI), a leading US-based developer of software tools for the analysis and design of civil structures, the new software will be applied on all construction activities across its business parks.
Mohamed Al Bahri, Director – Zoning Authority Development Control, DTMFZA, said: "Through our association with the leading software developer for seismic and wind analysis and design for high rise buildings, we hope to provide a quality review and evaluation of projects to create safe and quake-proof structures." |
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Friday 19 September, 2008 10:17 AM |
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The outstanding performance of BSW Timber's revolutionary new wood product Accoya® will be demonstrated to renovators and home improvers at the Homebuilding & Renovating Show in London next month.
The environmentally friendly wood’s superior thermal and low maintenance qualities will be showcased on the Boyland, Dendura, Carey & Fox, Vincent Timber and Sash Window Workshop stands at the key industry event, which runs from 19th-21st September at the ExCeL centre.
Accoya® will also be on the show's Eco Trail where visitors can discover all the products and services they need to create a greener home.
There is now unprecedented interest in the cutting-edge product with established customers placing regular monthly orders and a number of new customers recently coming on board.
It coincides with a major boost in production at a new plant at Arnhem, Netherlands since the first supplies arrived in the UK last year. |
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Tuesday 16 September, 2008 09:22 AM |
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The perfect storm of soaring fuel costs and intensified global demand has caused major volatility and rapid escalations of construction material costs. Despite these obstacles, experienced builders have a variety of solutions they can provide companies to offset the escalating material costs and still develop new facilities for growth and expansion. In a recent white paper titled "Smart Construction," Leopardo Construction highlights 10 economical building solutions for offsetting the skyrocketing material prices and realigning construction budgets with original expectations.
Since January 2004, the price per gallon of gasoline at the pump has risen 167 percent and diesel fuel has jumped 252 percent. The cost of fuel has a tremendous impact on petroleum-based materials such as plastic, asphalt, rubber, PVC, insulation and roofing shingles. The price of asphalt, for instance, increased 47 percent in the last 12 months. Beyond petroleum byproducts, every single construction material requires manufacturing and transportation -- sometimes across thousands of miles -- which consume fuel. |
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Tuesday 9 September, 2008 11:46 AM |
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Apartment buildings and houses built on pillars are at high risk in an earthquake . Most such buildings here were constructed in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, when there was less awareness of the relationship between structure and the risk of collapse.
But now researchers in civil engineering at the Ariel University Center in Samaria claim to have developed a way to retrofit pillars to make such buildings safer.
Dr. Yuri Ribakov and engineer Vladimir Briman published an article in the international journal The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings (www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120847777/abstract). They suggest replacing existing exposed pillars with improved versions. The old ones are replaced by structures that carry the building's weight until the new ones are installed |
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Sunday 7 September, 2008 12:32 PM |
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Oxford's so-called hamburger roundabout has won an award for its innovative and practical design.
The junction, nicknamed because the A40 cuts through its centre, was constructed to ease congestion around one of the city's busiest bottlenecks. |
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 12:45 PM |
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BEIJING: This ancient capital city , long known for the architectural splendor of its centuries-old palaces and temples, is getting a new look that could have been plucked from science fiction.
A series of landmarks, notable for their futuristic design, will greet visitors to the Olympics. They include an Olympic stadium that looks like a giant bird's nest, a swimming venue literally built of bubbles and a pair of black office towers that lean toward each other at a 10-degree angle. |
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 08:47 AM |
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VANCOUVER - Seismically upgrading Vancouver city hall would be expensive and could change the look of the heritage building, so engineers are considering an innovative way to save it during an earthquake: lifting up the structure and putting a rubber foundation underneath.
The rubber would absorb the vibrations of a large tremor and protect the old building from being too badly damaged, said Garrick Bradshaw, city hall's director of facility design and management. |
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Tuesday 1 July, 2008 04:48 AM |
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Canada's construction industry is being pushed to its limits, a new report says.
And the pressure is only going to get worse before it gets better, with 162,000 workers needed to replace retiring Baby Boomers, according to an assessment of Canada's construction labour markets from 2008 to 2016 by the Ottawa-based Construction Sector Council (CSC).
Another 94,000 construction workers will be needed over the next eight years just to keep pace with new projects. These numbers are above and beyond the 42,000 workers hired last year, a figure the CSC calls unprecedented.
"From 2007 to 2016, that's close to 300,000 construction workers. The magnitude of that should be a call to action," says CSC executive director George Gritziotis. |
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Friday 27 June, 2008 02:10 PM |
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NEW YORK — An Italian architect said he is poised to start construction on a new skyscraper in Dubai that will be "the world's first building in motion," an 80-story tower with revolving floors that give it an ever-shifting shape.
The spinning floors, hung like rings around an immobile cement core, would offer residents a constantly changing view of the Persian Gulf and the city's futuristic skyline.
A few penthouse villas would spin on command using a voice-activated computer. The motion of the rest of the building would be choreographed in patterns that could be altered over time.
Speaking at a news conference in New York on Tuesday, the building's designer, David Fisher, declared that his tower will revolutionize the way skyscrapers are made — a claim that might strike some as excessively bold. |
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Friday 27 June, 2008 09:16 AM |
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ISLAMABAD: The Chinese government has offered Pakistan to provide skilled labour for the construction of the Bhasha Dam , sources told Daily Times Tuesday.
Chinese government has conveyed to Pakistani government that it has 17,000 skilled labourers who worked on three Gorges Dams in China and these dams were generating 30,000MW electricity. It had also informed Pakistan that these labourers could be provided to construct Basha Diamer Dam. |
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Thursday 26 June, 2008 06:25 AM |
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