Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like bridges, roads, canals, dams, and buildings.
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Opened to traffic in 1943, the Howrah Bridge kolkotta India (officially called the Rabindra Setu, after renowed Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore) crosses the Hooghly River to link Kolkata with its twin city of Howrah on the other side. Approximately 150,000 vehicles and 4,000,000 pedestrians use the bridge each day. The most impressive thing about this bridge is that it crosses the river in a single span, without any pylons connecting it to the river bed. It's one of the longest bridges of its type in the world at that time. To get a feel for why the Howrah bridge is also said to be the busiest bridge in the world, you really must walk across it. It's only then that you'll truly get to experience the sheer volume of traffic that it carries -- including cars, buses, bicycles, bullock cars and innumerable people bearing loads of heavy wares on their head. The traffic makes fascinating viewing .
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Asymptote Architecture - Kaohsiung Port Terminal !!! The new Kaohsiung Marine Gateway Terminal designed by Asymptote is a new state of the art transportation interchange, an urban destination with both terminal and public facilities including exhibition and event spaces for the people of Kaohsiung as well as for national and international visitors. The project transforms the site from its industrial roots into a dynamic urban hub and a global gateway that bring a powerful and electric experience to the city 24 hours a day. Project Data :- Architects: Asymptote Architecture and Artech Architects Location: Kaohsiung , Taiwan Project Team: Asymptote Architecture – Hani Rashid & Lise Anne Couture, Artech Architects – Kris Yao Structural Engineering: Knippers Helbig Environmental Engineering: Transsolar Cruise Consultant: Parsons Brinckerhoff Fire, Electrical & Plumbing: Heng Kai Traffic Engineering: Everest Project Area: 40,000 sqm Client: Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau Competition: Kaohsiung Port Terminal 2010.
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Aggregate, Types of aggregates:- Aggregate is a granular material, such as sand, gravel, crushed stone, crushed hydraulic-cement concrete, or iron blast-furnace slag, used with a hydraulic cementing medium to produce either concrete or mortar. Aggregate is used Coarse Aggregate:- Those particles that are predominantly retained on the 4.75 mm (No. 4) sieve, are called COARSE AGGREGATES. Fine Aggregate:- Those particles passing the 9.5 mm (3/8 in.) sieve, almost entirely passing the 4.75 mm (No. 4) sieve, and predominantly retained on the 75 µm (No. 200) sieve are called FINE AGGREGATES.
One building is the inverse of another at this pair of museums that architect Steven Holl has designed for a new city quarter of Tianjin, China.The Ecology and Planning Museums will be located within Tianjin Eco-City, a new city quarter under construction on China's east coast that is set to accommodate at least 350,000 inhabitants.Steven Holl Architects conceived the Planning Museum as a large cuboidal building with a series of blob-shaped voids piercing its volume, while the neighbouring Ecology Museum will have a non-linear form that copies the shape of these openings.
Architecture firm SOM has proposed adding a floating observation deck that slides up and down the sides of two new skyscrapers .The moving deck is one of several public realm strategies that the firm is promoting for the 100-year-old station, following an invitation from the Municipal Art Society of New York to re-think the spaces in and around the building.SOM suggests that the hovering deck would improve the quality of the public space around the building by offering an "iconic landmark" with a 360-degree panorama of the city skyline."Throughout the history of New York City, urban growth has been matched by grand civic gestures," said SOM partner Roger Duffy.
Amsterdam architects UNStudio have designed a new international airport for Kutaisi, Georgia.The airport will serve the growing number of tourists to the city, as well as politicians and diplomats visiting the country’s parliament, which is moving from the capital Tbilisi to Kutaisi next year.The terminal will include three departure gates, as well as a departure lounge with a large private garden.
Bridge in Abu Dhabi by Zaha Hadid Architects-Construction of the 842 metre-long bridge between Abu Dhabi Island and the mainland completed earlier this year.The structure comprises several arching waves of reinforced concrete, which support a four-lane highway. PROGRAM: 2 ways four lane highway bridge to Abu Dhabi island CLIENT: Abu Dhabi Municipality ARCHITECT: Zaha Hadid Architects Design: Zaha Hadid Project Architect: Graham Modlen Project Team: Garin O'Aivazian, Zahira Nazer, Christos Passas, Sara Klomps, Steve Power Project Engineer: Joe Barr, Mike King, Mike Davies Highpoint Rendel (Abu Dhabi, UAE) CONSULTANTS: Structure: Rendel Palmer Tritton (London, UK) Lighting: Hollands Licht (Amsterdam, Netherlands) DIMENSIONS: 842m long, 64m high, 61m wide MATERIALS: Piers, Decking: Reinforced Concrete Arches: Steel
Monday, 18 February 2013
LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging, also LADAR) is an optical remote sensing technology that can measure the distance to, or other properties of, targets by illuminating the target with laser light and analyzing the backscattered light. LIDAR technology has applications in geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, remote sensing, atmospheric physics, airborne laser swath mapping (ALSM), laser altimetry, and contour mapping.This lidar (laser range finder) may be used to scan buildings, rock formations, etc., to produce a 3D model. The LIDAR can aim its laser beam in a wide range: its head rotates horizontally; a mirror tilts vertically. The laser beam is used to measure the distance to the first object on its path.
The Terex RH400 is the worlds largest hydraulic shovel and weighs nearly one thousand and eighy tons with a shovel capacity of ninety-four tons in a single scoop. It can fill huge mining trucks like the Komatsu 930E with three or four passes. The RH400 has the working ability to scoop up around nine thousand nine hundred tons of material ever hour which is a world record for a vehicle of this type
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