#Engineer Projects (Civil)

[julietasgf]

ofc marcus is always bitter, have you ever met someone who works on the construction field who's HAPPY?

[rouge-fauna]

Today on Transportation Engineering: best sidewalk ever

Honestly, I can’t decide which is dumber, the utility polls going in after the sidewalk or the sidewalk being put in around the existing polls…

[stone-cold-groove]

Construction of the Greater New Orleans (GNO) Bridge over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana - 1954 to 1958.

[terrorbirb]

I want to SCREAM about local politics because I'M now involved in politics (as a completely neutral party just providing engineering advice) about secret (controversial) private money projects that I can't even yell at friends about.

[kimludcom]

Top 10 Civil Engineering Mega Projects in the Netherlands

Top 10 Civil Engineering 🚜⚙️🗜️ Mega Projects in the Netherlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_qdc3DAtLw

[queenwendy]

My engineering senior design project is due in less than 2 hours and while I, incredibly, have all of my work done despite the procrastination for some reason my group mates largely don’t and a lot of what we have to do is based on each other’s work!!! Why the hell did I agree to study civil engineering?!

[dr-akeda-amuesments]

“Wait, uh…what was I doing- Oh yeah! I’m Journey Brooks! The Ultimate Civil Engineer! And make sure to say your name 5 times! I’ll remember it better!”

Meet Journey Brooks, The Ultimate Civil Engineer.

Age: 19

Pronouns: She/Her

Nationality: American

Likes: Rats, Her Community, Carnivals

Dislikes: Parties, Photos, Alligators

Birthday: February 18th

Appearance: Journey is a shorter girl, standing at only 5’0”. She has dark blonde hair that fades to white pulled into a thick ponytail, along with brown eyes. Her outfit is a green hoodie jacket, with the sleeves pulled up to her elbows, and unzipped halfway to show a white shirt with a teddy bear on it. She also has denim shorts and red sneakers.

Backstory: Journey Brooks was a child prodigy born into less than stellar circumstances. Her parents were both deadbeats, so she was assigned to live with her uncle, and even then, all she did was sit in her basement, completing online courses and solving complex math equations for fun. Her uncle was a kind and caring man, supporting Journey’s intelligence, paying for Journey’s top and bottom surgeries, and even setting up Journey a website to offer her talents to those who needed it. And her talent was needed by mayors, architects, and everyone in between.

[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

Me trying to write anything that does not in some way reference the long term nuclear waste messages [impossible]

[drysauce]

trying to memorize half of this book and all the powerpoints for tomorrow. wish me luck

[optistaff]

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[epersonae]

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The Colorado River delta was essentially destroyed by first the Hoover Dam and then the Glen Canyon Dam - only a tiny fraction remains of the original wetlands, and many (most?) years the river doesn't even reach the Gulf of California.

[send me an emoji and I will send you a fun* fact about my special interest(s)] *“fun” is kind of relative here tbh

[nnctales]

Exploring the Diverse Landscape of Surveys: Unveiling Different Types

Introduction Civil engineering, as a discipline, relies heavily on accurate and comprehensive data to design, plan, and construct various infrastructure projects. Surveys play a crucial role in gathering this essential information, providing engineers with the data needed to make informed decisions. There are several types of surveys in civil engineering, each serving a unique purpose. In this…

[blurban-form]

Victoria Bridge Shade Protection

Here was that bridge shade-protection project (that’s now been either cancelled or deferred due to budget cuts.)

I also found it noteworthy that the Victoria Bridge is only for transit and pedestrians (no cars/trucks) as of January 2021.

As I’ve noted previously, I think these shade protectors are interesting; they’re an interesting adaption to deal with the hot sun. We don’t have these locally here in Canada (yet!)

[stone-cold-groove]

A dapper gent fitting a more civilized age. Civil engineer and architect, Isambard Kingdom Brunel - 1857.

[terrorbirb]

Nothing against low level jobs really, but one of our engineering techs was only a food service worker before this. Like an associates does something for you (don't know if that's what he has even he may be a student) I guess, but no wonder these guys aren't ready for engineering.

[ae3qe27u]

This has to do with how water runoff works. If you have a relatively flat surface, water will flow over it fairly quickly, and won't have time to really settle in and sink into the ground, like how water flows smoothly over a table. If you add some roughness to that surface, and specifically add some places for the water to pool, then some water flows over the top, but only once it's filled up the holes, like pouring water over a pebbled surface.

The crescent shapes help with this, as their geometry kinda "catches" the water, making lots and lots of little puddles (the best way to orient the crescents depends on wind, maybe? Or could be the slope of the hill, I'm not sure. But imperfect crescents are better than none). These puddles provide a place for growth - algae, seeds, moss, bird poop, whatever - and that growth eventually turns into plants with roots. Plants with roots help stabilize the soil, which makes it easier for even more plants to grow.

It's kinda like erosion, a little bit. Or the Dust Bowl, for Americans. When you have no topsoil and you have nothing holding the ground together, it's unstable. You try to put some seeds in there (or some seeds blow in on the wind, really) and those seeds get kicked around. Even if they germinate (which can be hard if they don't have enough water to let them know it's safe to grow), they don't get the chance to put roots down because they just keep moving. Roots are meant to stabilize a plant, to keep it anchored, and to help it get necessary minerals. Also water absorption, that's very important. Leaves help with, you know, getting energy and food from the sun. They're also super important for absorbing carbon from the air to make new cells so the plant can grow (carbon-based lifeforms go brrrr)

So if the little sprout-to-be gets moved around and gets 1) buried under a bunch of dirt or 2) gets stranded on the surface, you have problems. For 1), the leaves can't get to the surface and the plant ends up smothered. Seeds provide a reservoir of mass and energy to help with initial growth, but once that runs out, the plant has no backups to draw off of. So you get a dead little sprout, which isn't much help in making more plants. It's dead. For 2), what water can a plant's roots find on top of the soil? Basically none, at least not in a desert/desert-esque/arid environment like this. It's going to dry out, shrivel up, and die. It dehydrates to death.

But if you have an area that has a bit of shelter from the wind (see those little ridges along the sides of the hole) and also has steady water (from the filled-in crescent)? That removes two of the biggest threats to a young sprout. It makes seeds more likely to germinate (steady moisture) and more likely to succeed.

It takes time, and doesn't solve issues like pollution, but for putting life in the desert? It's pretty great.

I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable