Confederation Bridge

served in the 82nd Engineer Combat Battalion during World War II may have thought they achieved very little but their accomplishments helped in winning the European Theatre of Operation. Their engineer tasks included but were not limited to, erecting bridges, emplacing minefields, creating and continuing to make road improvements to allow for freedom of movement for allied forces. The 82nd Engineer Combat Battalion was activated on 23 March 1943 at Camp Swift just outside of Bastrop, Texas. The men of

The history of the Chicago Skyway began in 1928, when the City Council of Chicago—motivated by the desire to strengthen connections between the city and the country’s Midwestern industrial base—requested a study for an elevated roadway to be constructed above the Pennsylvania Rail Road’s right of way. Although this proposal did not ultimately come to fruition, the planning set the stage on which the road would be built adjacent to this railroad. Concurrently, the Chicago Plan Commission had begun

the people, places, and things that we desire. Although the concept of bridges is as simple as a tree falling across a creek, bridge design and construction requires very serious ingenuity. Artists, engineers, and architects pour vast resources into bridge construction so that they can reshape our daily environment for the better. When building bridges you’ll need help from BATS which are the key structural components of bridge construction such as beams, arches , trusses, and suspensions. Various

Transportation began construction on a series of improvement to I-90, a key interstate that connects eastern and western Washington. The project includes many measures to improve traveler safety and efficiency such as avalanche bridges, expanded lanes, straightened curves, and replacement bridges (WSDOT-I-90-Snoqualmie Pass East, 2016). However, in addition to those changes, they are also adding controversial wildlife crossing structures to the interstate that are intended to allow wildlife to get across the

As they crested the rise, Riasean and Larah looked out at Cazidor. In front of them, to the West, lay undulating plains, ending in the rocky boundary of the Allurian Sea, where it pounded the shores of the long narrow kingdom. The road they were on plunged down the slopes and turned north into a copse of trees before reappearing again, just outside a small village astride the road. To their far right, they could see the spires of Wolfbern rising toward the sky. The rumble of thunder echoed behind

Let me tell you about my 1986 visit to a place that sometimes feels forgotten to time and history. October is usually the time of year when the intense heat of the summer in Mississippi is waning and cooler conditions are on the way, but the summer of 1986, the heat, still intense. Ordinarily, visiting with family, an easy task, but this was a bit different. The Poplar Hill Farm a place I had read about, listened to stories about, the place I have wanted to visit since beginning my research. An

under the bridge that serve as a reminder of the former prison once housed there. • Python Bridge is one of the most unusual bridges in Amsterdam as it’s red snake-like shape bridges Sporenburg and Borneo Island. It is also one of the newest, built in 2001 and winning the International Footbridge Award in 2002. • Jan Schaefer Bridge is another of Amsterdam’s newer bridges. It passes through the middle of Pakhuis De Zwijgerand spans the 200 metre-wide IJ Harbour. Every five years the bridge is dismantled

MILLERSBURG — To pay for some necessary improvements at the jail and increasing inmate medical costs, Holmes County Sheriff Timothy W. Zimmerly and the Holmes County commissioners have agreed to do some cost sharing and shifting of revenues from housing out-of-county inmates. Zimmerly, joined by Chief Deputy Richard Haun, presented to the commissioners two estimates — one to replace an exterior door and another to replace handles for interior doors — all designed to improve security at the facility

This particular arch, the Delicate Arch, is a prime example of a freestanding arch. A freestanding arch is the last “step” in the process of how arches form. First, we would have a solid sandstone wall. Because there is salt upheaval from the Paradox Salt in lower layers, the sandstone layers also bulge and crack, creating joints along the edge of a valley. Joints are simply the cracks formed when the rock layers are moved around. Every arch begins as a fin, which is what forms when the joints

suspension bridges allowing large numbers of people to access new places easily. For these reasons we decided to create a model suspension bridge to display the usefulness of the bridge and the parabolic shape as a whole. The construction process of our model suspension bridge went smoothly. We designed a blueprint that showed our bridge in a life size scale. The materials used to build our bridge included two 18 inch tall two by fours for the anchoring towers of the suspension bridge, one 30