Extreme Engineering

[Brent Burns]

Credit fully goes to Matt Benson with his impeccable timing to start this thread!

Extreme Engineering TV schedule

Thought some of you may want to know what will be aired in advance on different projects such as Sakhalin Oil & Ice, Big Easy Rebuild, and Space Tower.

[Gregg Pathiakis]

A friend just sent me this picture. Looks to be on-topic.

Water Bridge in Germany.... What a feat!

Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......now this is engineering!

This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in th e city of Magdeburg, near Berlin. The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.

[Brent Burns]

A friend just sent me this picture. Looks to be on-topic.

Water Bridge in Germany.... What a feat!

Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......now this is engineering!

This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in th e city of Magdeburg, near Berlin. The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.

I received that email, too and was skeptical at first because I was not sure if it was a work of photo cropping (I am not sure if that is the right definition for that concept, smile). Of course, I had to do research and found that this is actually true.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/waterbridge.asp

I also found another picture of that same waterbridge over River Elbe:

[Hackalicious]

I guess the Malaysians aren't familiar with The Big Dig.

That would be a good discussion on differentiating KL's SMART Tunnel and Boston's Big Dig. Would Gregg Pathiakis chime in at some point?

Are there still problems with the Big Dig?

I'd love to chime in on this. The Big Dig is very near completion now. I haven't been into Boston in a couple weeks, but from watching the news they have had their third Big Dig Completion celebration recently. I believe all that is left is work at ground level... clearing the land above the tunnell and building the Rose Kennedy Parks.

And, yes, the Big Dig has made commuting in and out of Boston a lot less of a hassle. Since the tunnell (recently named the Tip O'Niell Tunnell after the former Massachusetts congressman and Speaker of the House) has opened, the only traffic problem I have noticed was when they would close the whole highway down for 6 hours overnight to work on it. At the time, I was driving airport limos in and out of Boston and it was a nightmare.

It's been a big improvement, but they are still having trouble with leaks. I heard a blurb on the radio this morning that the Tip O'Niell tunnel was supposed to pump out 30,000 gallons of water that seeped in a month. (I guess that's normal and expected with a tunnel?) They've been pumping out 1,000,000. That can't be good.

It'll be real nice when they finish the greenbelt through the city. Hopefully, I'll be alive in 2065 when it's finally done.

[Gregg Pathiakis]

It's been a big improvement, but they are still having trouble with leaks. I heard a blurb on the radio this morning that the Tip O'Niell tunnel was supposed to pump out 30,000 gallons of water that seeped in a month. (I guess that's normal and expected with a tunnel?) They've been pumping out 1,000,000. That can't be good.

It'll be real nice when they finish the greenbelt through the city. Hopefully, I'll be alive in 2065 when it's finally done.

Yeah, the Boston Globe had a feature article on this earlier this week. I haven't read it yet except for the graphic they showed so I can't really comment on it. I do know they haven't had any big leaks like they had when it first opened, though.