Download or read book The Reminiscences of a Civil Engineering Contractor written by Robert Brodie and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reminiscences of a Civil Engineering Contractor written by Robert Brodie and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reminiscences of a Civil Engineering Contractor provides an account of the various engineering works of Robert Brodie, a civil engineer. This book covers several engineering projects, including Tay Bridge Railways, Montrose and Arbroath Railway, Scarborough and Whitby Railway, Mersey Railway, Loch Katrine aqueduct, Peterhead Harbor improvement, and Fraserburgh Harbor improvement. Organized into two parts encompassing 16 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the Tay Bridge work. This text then discusses the construction of the missing link of the East Coast route between Arbrouth and Kinaber junction, including rock cuttings and extensive viaducts. Other chapters consider the various contracts at Swansea. This book discusses as well the establishment of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors in 1919. The final chapter deals with other contracts, including railways, docks, roads, reservoirs, pipe tracks, and catchment board improvements all over Wales and England. This book is a valuable resource for civil engineers.
Download or read book Reminiscences of an Old English Civil Engineer 1858 1908 written by Robert Maitland Brereton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of an Old English Civil Engineer 1858 1908 written by Robert Maitland Brereton and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...world, and those gigantic monuments of early rule will, for ages, remain as lasting memorials of the good we have done and of the benefits we have conferred on the people of this country. But last they will, and it may happen that a thousand years hence, Mr. Brereton's ghost may still hover with anxious solicitude over the unbroken piers of the Towa Viaduct, when Macauley's New Zealander is sitting on the ruins of London Bridge." Mr. John Morris, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, in proposing Mr. Brereton's health at the opening, spoke as follows: "The completion of this railway is of the deepest interest to the officers of this commission, for there can be no doubt but that the opening of the railway will be a most important boom to these provinces. Hitherto the Nerbudda valley has been almost perfectly closed for four months of the year, but this will no longer be the case, and consequently for the future the prices of the Nerbudda valley will be equalized. Then, speaking of the works, I would express my thorough conviction that the success with which they have been crowned, and the solidity of their construction, is chiefly due to the untiring energy and the indefatigable labor of the chief engineer and his staff, who have worked with indomitable perseverance through heat, rain and disease to make up for the shortcomings of a former mistaken system which brought about the casualties of last year. Those labors alone-are sufficient to prove that the service is one of danger as well as toil. It is not for me to thank him formally, for that has already been done by a far more distinguished person; but having had opportunities of seeing their labors and estimating their value, I must take this opportunity of expressing my thanks...
Download or read book Recollections of a Civil Engineer written by D. H. Ainsworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of a Civil Engineer: Experiences in New York, Iowa, Nebraska, Dakota, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado In June 1850, the writer commence] cng'neering on the Enlargement of the Erie Canal, in Wayne County New York. There was not a very large engineering force, the most of the work being in the villages of the county, and in building the new Clyde Lock, located about a mile west of the old one, and of the town; the lower or eastern level be ing lengthened that much. It was claimed at the time. That this change of location was to allow Gen'l William H. Ad ams to have the south end of his Sodus Canal at the lower level, but west of the old lock The old canal above the lock, which was five feet lift, was principally in cutting, as was most of the old Erie Canal. Near Clyde, the material was wasted in the rear of the towing-path which was there south of the canal, most of the town being on the opposite side. Preparatory to letting the contract for building this new piece of canal, test-pits were dug in this waste, show ing conclusively what kind of material was taken out in the construction of the old canal, but giving little intimation of what would be encountered in reducing the level five feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reminiscences of an Old English Civil Engineer 1858 1908 written by Brereton Robert Maitland and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Civil Engineering in Context written by Alan Marshall Muir Wood and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2004 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Alan Muir Wood sits in the pantheon of great civil engineers of the twentieth century. In Civil Engineering in Context, Sir Alan Muir Wood draws from his long career to place as he says 'civil engineering in context'. The book contains many personal reminiscences of his life as an engineer from early days as a wartime marine engineer in the Royal Navy, through his more than 25 year career as a Partner and Senior Partner with Halcrow and as a tunnelling engineer of world renown. Civil Engineering in Context also presents Sir Alan's strongly held and sometimes controversial views on how civil engineering as an industry has developed since the pragmatic enterprise of the nineteenth century, through a twentieth century where much of the momentum was lost, and how it should be developing in the twenty-first century. Sir Alan ranges across many topics which directly affect the role of the engineer, including management and the law, systems and design, and ethics and politics. He also discusses his contribution and the wider aspects to some of the major projects of the twentieth century such as the Channel Tunnel. Civil Engineering in Context provides an enlightening insight into the civil engineer and civil engineering through the eyes of one of it most eminent protagonists.
Download or read book Reminiscences of an Old English Civil Engineer 1858 1908 Scholar s Choice Edition written by Brereton Robert Maitland and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Good Guys Wiseguys and Putting Up Buildings written by Samuel C. Florman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Guys, Wiseguys, and Putting Up Buildings is an engaging memoir about one man's career in construction--rising to the top of an industry renowned for crime, corruption, violence, physical danger, and the chronic risk of financial catastrophe. Starting in the Navy Seabees at the end of WWII, Samuel C. Florman made his way as a general contractor in New York City through the period of explosive development, private exuberance and the historic growth of publicly supported housing--all amidst the rise of the notorious Mafia families, and evolution of the Civil Rights Movement. His storied career brought him into contact with a variety of personalities: politicians and civil servants, developers and technocrats, saintly do-gooders and corrupt rapscallions. Along with the rousing adventures there were satisfactions of a different sort: the enchantment of seeing architecture made real; the pride of creating housing, hospitals, schools, places of worship--shelter for the body and nourishment for the spirit.
Download or read book The Reminiscences of John B Jervis Engineer of the Old Croton written by John Bloomfield Jervis and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Contractors written by Hugh Ferguson (BSc) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first history of the challenges and adventures faced by British civil engineering contractors from their emergence with canal construction in the late-eighteenth century to the present"--Back cover.
Download or read book Home and Away written by Peter Martin and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home and Away – A Civil Engineering Odyssey draws on the author’s long career as an engineer responsible for many projects around the world. In the memoir he highlights some of those projects with descriptions of the design processes and the construction methods used to bring the works to successful completion, keeping technical detail to the minimum needed for the reader’s understanding of the projects. Personal reminiscences of his travels complement descriptions of life as an engineer. Developments in analysis of structures during the author’s working life have enabled all manner of structures to be designed to display elegance of form in a natural way without unnecessary embellishment. Practising engineers understand the satisfaction to be found in designing such engineering works and seeing them built as they envisaged. It is hoped the author’s enthusiasm for his work as expressed in the memoir may inspire others to become the civil engineers of the future.
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Download or read book Transactions written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st-6th biennial reports of the society, 1875-88, included in v. 1-4.
