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  • 3 days ago | enr.com | Scott Lewis

    This 1964 image is perhaps the closest ENR ever came to dabbling in Op Art. It shows two workers standing inside a large conical depression with fluted sides, which is a plastic form made of glass-fiber-reinforced polyester resin. The form will be used to cast tree-like concrete members to frame the IBM Garden State Office Building in Cranford, N.J. Each concrete tree roofs a 22.5-ft square.

  • 3 days ago | enr.com | Scott Lewis

    Saudi Arabia was an underdeveloped country in the 1960s when its ruler, King Faisal, embarked on a far-reaching modernization drive. Faisal’s initiatives involved constructing all kinds of infrastructure and the creation of now-essential industries such as petrochemicals, iron, steel, cement and mining.

  • 2 weeks ago | enr.com | Scott Lewis

    This 1925 cover image depicts a concrete mixing plant (one of three) for a vital project in downtown Chicago, in which South Water Street was transformed into Wacker Drive, a major multilevel street running along the Chicago River in the Loop. The project entailed 300,000 cu yd of excavation and 120,000 cu yd of concrete placement. To achieve the desired quality of concrete the uncommon practice of sand inundation was employed.

  • 2 weeks ago | enr.com | Scott Lewis

    This 1925 cover image depicts a concrete mixing plant—one of three—for a vital project in downtown Chicago, in which South Water Street was transformed into Wacker Drive, a major multilevel street running along the Chicago River in the Loop. The project entailed 300,000 cu yd of excavation and 120,000 cu yd of concrete placement. To achieve the desired quality of concrete the uncommon practice of sand inundation was employed.

  • 2 weeks ago | enr.com | Scott Lewis

    The Colorado River was a fault line of near-tectonic political forces by the 1920s, as the seven states within its basin continued to grow in population. A 1922 compact allocated water rights from the river, but farmers in California’s Imperial Valley suffered from unpredictable flows and called for a dam that would provide flood control and a consistent supply of irrigation water.

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