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 microtunnelling machine has been used to protect the beautiful rural landscape of South Yorkshire, UK, and successfully install a new gas pipeline.
National Grid continues to build the gas pipe to improve services throughout the UK. The new pipeline has been completed linking Asselby to Aberford in South Yorkshire using open cut pipelaying and trenchless methods. All were completed with minimal disruption to everyday life and more importantly, the environment in this rural setting. |
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Monday 17 August, 2009 02:01 PM |
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As much of the world’s underground infrastructure has reached the end of its design life, many cities are aware that they have a major problem lurking under their streets. Some of these cities have been compelled to take action. Many others are not doing much until there is no other alternative.
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Monday 17 August, 2009 09:47 AM |
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The Building Team for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy could have taken the easy route: just build a new cadet residence hall on the only remaining open space on the landlocked 55-acre campus at Buzzards Bay, renovate the old dorms as well as possible, and don't even worry about saving energy. |
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Sunday 16 August, 2009 12:09 PM |
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A consulting team led by PSA-Dewberry, one of the nation’s largest architectural/engineering firms specializing in corrections and criminal justice facilities, has been selected by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (MDPSCS) to design the new Baltimore Youth Detention Center in downtown Baltimore, Md. The $80-million facility will accommodate youths who have been criminally charged as adults, and will enable the state to increase its educational, counseling, and healthcare services for youth offenders. |
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Sunday 16 August, 2009 11:00 AM |
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Simpson Strong-Tie in collaboration with Colorado State University and other partners successfully led the world’s largest earthquake shake table test in Japan on July 14, showing that midrise wood-frame buildings can be built to withstand major earthquakes. |
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Tuesday 11 August, 2009 10:10 PM |
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Two variants on the reinforced earth wall , one with a “green” vegetated facing, and one with stone-textured blocks, have been proving their worth in Ireland
New variants of reinforced ground embankment are part of the new Wicklow road project south of Dublin. They are relatively simple to construct, tolerant of poor ground and have an aesthetically pleasing finish. |
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Wednesday 5 August, 2009 03:46 PM |
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Teflon pads could be used to move Auckland's historic Birdcage Tavern away from the Victoria Park motorway tunnel site on long "runway" beams beside Franklin Rd.
Structural engineer Adam Thornton, who has master-minded the transfer of several large and notable buildings, including Wellington's Museum Hotel, is confident the Birdcage can be moved 30m up Franklin Rd - as proposed by the Transport Agency - without undue risk to its 123-year-old brickwork. |
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Monday 20 July, 2009 10:39 PM |
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Designers of the 17th century Taj Mahal in India, the finest piece of Mughal architecture, employed the same unit of measurement used by the Harappan civilization of 2000 BC, according to a new study reported in the latest issue of Current Science.
The study by R. Balasubramaniam of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, has for the first time shown that the unit of length called “angulam” — mentioned in Kautilya’s treatise “Arthasastra” dated 300 BC — was used without a break by Indian builders for over 3,900 years until the British imposed their units in the 18th century. |
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Thursday 9 July, 2009 03:36 PM |
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Irish building firms are looking as far afield as Libya for work because projects in Ireland have all but dried up, according to the Civil Engineering Contractors’ Association (CECA).
Pat McCarthy, president of CECA, said that the association’s members were suffering from a scarcity of work, despite government claims that capital spending was going ahead. He said he knew of at least three major contractors that had tendered for work in Poland, and another which tendered for work in Libya. |
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Monday 6 July, 2009 12:23 PM |
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HUGE rips in the Southern Star Observation Wheel have raised more serious concerns about design and construction of the $120 million tourist attraction and whether it complied with Australian design standards. |
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Sunday 5 July, 2009 04:31 PM |
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On the surface , designing a parking deck seems a simple business: four walls, some ramps, painted spaces and tons of concrete and steel.
But structural engineers say the design specifications of a parking garage are just as exacting and important as those for a 100-story signature building. Even using the wrong size bolt on support beams or changing the angle of a joint can one day reduce a parking deck to concrete pancakes. |
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Friday 3 July, 2009 12:33 PM |
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development ("MOHURD") convened a national survey and engineering design working conference for its directors on May 20, 2009. Mr. Wang Suqing, who is the head of the Construction Market Supervising Division of MOHURD, delivered a speech entitled "Recognize the Market Situation, Improve Supervising System, to Enhance the Development of the Survey and Engineering Design Industry." Mr. Wang's speech provides an interesting insight into aspects of MOHURD's strategy for the industry by looking at recent developments and trends. |
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Sunday 28 June, 2009 10:08 AM |
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As the economic stimulus bill was being pushed through Congress in January, the American Society of Civil Engineers rushed to release its latest report card for the nation’s infrastructure. The grades were dismal, with the highest mark a C-plus for how we deal with solid waste. Five categories — including roads, drinking water and levees — received a D-minus. Overall, America scored a D (equivalent to “poor”), and the estimated cost of improving the nation’s infrastructure to acceptable levels was $2.2 trillion over five years. |
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Monday 15 June, 2009 02:10 PM |
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Could recycled shipping containers be the future of low-cost, fast-build structures? Scabal’s sports hall for Dunraven secondary school in Streatham, south London, is proving a success
Regular readers of these pages may remember that a couple of months ago we featured a beautiful little ensemble of bird hide, classroom and toilet block which the architect Landroom has designed for the RSPB at Rainham Marsh (Works April 17). The buildings were assembled from reclaimed shipping containers and communicated a vivid sense that every judgement that had informed their design was directly predicated on that primary decision. What then to make of another project that employs the very same technology but puts it to quite radically opposed expressive purposes? |
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Friday 12 June, 2009 05:06 PM |
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Foster and Partners’ Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal is one of six schemes shortlisted for the RIBA’s prestigious Lubetkin Prize , supported by The Architectural Review
The other projects vying for the prize - for the best international building by an RIBA member - include the National Stadium in Beijing by Herzog & de Meuron, the Sean O’Casey Community Centre, in Dublin by O’Donnell and Tuomey Architects, the British High Commission in Colombo by Richard Murphy Architects, Museum Brandhorst in Munich by Sauerbuch Hutton and the Watercube, National Swimming Centre in Beijing by PTW Architects. |
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Friday 12 June, 2009 03:02 PM |
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Mumbai: With a "stable" government in place and the economy inching back to shape, construction companies are confident that more projects will come their way in the next few months.
Arun Sahai, chief executive officer of New Delhi-based Ahluwalia Contracts, said there are huge expectations the government will pump in a lot of money to give a push to infrastructure. |
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Wednesday 10 June, 2009 12:08 PM |
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Reliance Infrastructure , controlled by Anil Ambani, the Indian billionaire businessman, is poised to secure more than $3bn of urban rail and road projects in Mumbai, including a showcase eight-lane highway. |
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Monday 8 June, 2009 11:12 AM |
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TWO south-east Asian companies have won the construction and engineering contracts at Perdaman's $3.5 billion urea project in Collie, WA.
A spokesman for Perdaman would not disclose how much the contracts were worth but said it was "for the bulk of the $3.5 billion project" . |
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Monday 8 June, 2009 10:04 AM |
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TWO south-east Asian companies have won the construction and engineering contracts at Perdaman's $3.5 billion urea project in Collie, WA.
A spokesman for Perdaman would not disclose how much the contracts were worth but said it was "for the bulk of the $3.5 billion project" . |
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Monday 8 June, 2009 09:13 AM |
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Heidelberg Systemservice now offers a new Foundation Design option as part of its Installation and Relocation Service for companies looking to install a new press, relocate production or combine multiple plants.
In developing this turnkey Foundation Design package, Heidelberg Systemservice has partnered with an Atlanta-based structural engineering firm to provide complete engineering and geotechnical services involved in designing and pouring a concrete reinforced flat pad prior to the installation of heavy printing machinery on a graded soil surface. |
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Tuesday 2 June, 2009 11:16 PM |
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Whether you love ‘em or hate ‘em, highways are a fact of life in America and will remain so for a long time to come. That being the case, building and maintaining our automotive byways will continue to be a huge business (and one, we might note, that’s not vulnerable to outsourcing). Just this year the stimulus provided $28 billion for construction work on roads and bridges, and in coming months the new transportation bill–estimated size: $450 billion–will fatten the pot even more. |
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Tuesday 2 June, 2009 11:09 AM |
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