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Proposal for Oakland residential tower: it would be city’s tallest building
- Oct, 15, 2022
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- United States, California , Oakland
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
Plans have been submitted for an East Bay housing high rise that, if built, will become Oakland's tallest building. The proposal for the development, named Town Tower, was submitted by real estate...
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3D printing: team of flying robots to build structures
- Oct, 09, 2022
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- United Kingdom
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Teams of airborne 3D-printing drones could one day be used to complete construction projects in dangerous or hard-to-reach environments – thanks to new technologies developed by researchers led by Mi...
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Chaplin Station Grouting Project
- Oct, 10, 2022
- Underground Structures Foundations News On Projects / Industry
- Canada, Toronto
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
When unexpected movement and ground disturbance occurred following drilled shaft installation, Keller performed preventative grouting to keep the project on track. Chaplin is a new underground statio...
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Earthquake damage in Groningen: 3,300 buildings demolished since 2012
- Sep, 27, 2022
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Concrete Structures Damage (Structural) Structural Failures News On Failures News On Projects / Industry News On Natural Disasters / Failures News On Natural Disasters/Phenomena Other News
- Netherlands, Groningen
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
Over 3,300 buildings have been demolished in Groningen since 2012, when the strongest earthquake since gas drilling began hit the province, broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday. The buildings which...
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South Shore Water Reclamation Facility Excavation Support Project
- Sep, 26, 2022
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- United States, Wisconsin, Oak Creek
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
The South Shore Water Reclamation Facility on the coast of Long Island, New York, is undergoing a major upgrade to redirect treated effluent away from the Western Bays – where nitrogen-rich effluent...
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Structural Engineering Finalists in the 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure
- Sep, 20, 2022
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- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
The annual awards program honors the extraordinary work of Bentley software users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations throughout the world. Eleven independent jury panels se...
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Building walls with demolition waste - the poetry of Cyclopean concrete
- Sep, 16, 2022
- Concrete Structures Sustainable Development Structure Reinforcement Structural Behavior News On Products & Services News On Projects / Industry Other News Walls Thin Wall Structures
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
Ancient cyclopean walls were built by overlapping raw stones, supported one on the other, without the use of mortar. The name derives from the Cyclops, the giants of Greek mythology, as their constru...
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Congo: Bridge collapses during ribbon-cutting ceremony
- Sep, 07, 2022
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- Republic of the Congo
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
Sharply-suited dignitaries gathered to inaugurate a footbridge in the Congolese capital on Monday only for the structure to collapse beneath their feet to the barely concealed delight of onlookers, v...
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Plans for Australia’s tallest tower
- Sep, 02, 2022
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- Australia, Southport
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
A Melbourne consortium has laid plans for Australia’s tallest building after lodging a development application for a $400 million twin-tower project on the Gold Coast. The landmark development, com...
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Banihal-Katra rail link in India’s J&K: new tunnel completed
- Aug, 30, 2022
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- Banihal
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A 9.8km tunnel on the Banihal-Katra railway link in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir has been completed, the Press Trust of India reported citing officials. The tunnel has been designed to con...
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