The Falkirk Wheel, Uniquely Scottish
Scotland is a land that has been linked to a mystical past. Druids, Nessie and men in skirts – you never know what they’ll do next. Scotland also gave us Sean Connery, the best James…
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Transparent Torture, The Walk of Faith and Seriously Scary!
Acrophobia is the fear of heights. We certainly hope you don’t have it. If so, a trip to the Zhangjiajie and Tianmen mountains in China’s Tianmen Mountain National Park may not be advised. However, if…
UK’s $8.3 Billion Aircraft Carrier: Precision Engineering Re-energizing Economy
HMS Queen Elizabeth, one of Europe’s largest and most interesting manufacturing projects, has a price tag of $8.3 billion and is about 50% complete. When it is christened in 2017 the carrier will be as…
New Norway Sky Bridge, Longer than Golden Gate Bridge
Norway Sky Bridge or The Hardanger Bridge? This Hardanger Bridge has been given a new name by the hordes of Internet comments calling it the Norway Sky Bridge. The new name was born after seeing…
Is the CAT 797F Too Expensive? $5 Million, Options Extra.
The Caterpillar 797 is a series of off-highway, ultra class, two-axle, mechanical powertrain haul trucks developed and manufactured in the United States by Caterpillar Inc. specifically for high production mining and heavy-duty construction applications world-wide.…
The Most Hazardous Industrial Site in Western Europe
At a cost of $30 billion to build, the Sellafield nuclear power site, located on the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England, is one of the most expensive engineering projects in history. Before all is said…
Turning Deserts into Inhabitable Oases
Shimizu, a major player in the international construction industry, has been studying how to turn deserts into inhabitable oases. Shimizu’s plan, still in the simulation stage, would locate multiple manmade lakes in naturally low-lying areas…
Los Angeles $1.5 Billion “Water Supply Action Plan”
In urban centers throughout the western United States where over 70% of annual runoff originates from large snowy mountains city planners are taking a look at the threat and risk of global warming and…
Deepening the Fastest Growing US Port
Naval architects and civil engineers on the Eastern seaboard have been working overtime because the ships and all the equipment and facilities that support them were designed to “fit” the old “Panamax” or the old…
$17 Billion Kai Tak Development in Hong Kong
Following Hong Kong’s $35 million cleanup of Kai Tak airport and its relocation to Chek Lap Kok Island a comprehensive plan was formulated to develop the rehabilitated land nearby Victoria harbor. When complete the project…
