| 单词 | girder |
| 例句 | Now the residents of the city forged an American dream of steel girders, fashioning opportunity with fire and iron. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Between the edge of the burned forest and the mountains, a rocky slope of heavy boulders and scree was littered with scorched and twisted metal: girders and struts that had belonged to some complex machine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She walked along the broad horizontal girder, feeling in sync with her world. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I follow a girder diagonally across the screen so I don’t have to look at him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She had been standing in front of the glass when the girders broke and she hadn’t been able to get out of the way in time. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Frightful snapped out of her trance when Jon Wood swung down to the horizontal girder. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z As soon as I lift my eyes to scan the buildings, I know where we’re going: the empty Hancock building, a black pillar with crisscrossed girders, the tallest building north of the bridge. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She dropped from the upper bow to the wide, horizontal girder. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Quickly he stepped to the horizontal girder and walked to the middle of the bridge, his orange vest catching the sunlight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She moved past one of the thick steel girders that supported the roof. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He came down from a height where no human eye could see him, landed on the girder, and took off again. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Tobias slides along one of the girders and puts his leg under me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Late in the afternoon she flew to the Delhi Bridge and walked to her old scrape on the girder. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I don’t make it very far before I have to stop, my feet on one girder and my left arm on another. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a collection of over five hundred individual stacks, all connected to each other by a makeshift network of recycled pipes, girders, support beams, and footbridges. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Its underside, made of iron girders, was perfectly straight—parallel with the surface and about eight inches above it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam was stretched out on the wide girder, under the burlap camouflage. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The metal girders looked like dull gray clay in the rain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The bridge is supported by four curved metal structures that secure it to the stone wall, and by a maze of narrow girders beneath its lower tier. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They were braced in place by a horizontal girder, to which iron columns and webs were riveted. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Sam looked up at the long horizontal girder, then down at his body. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Lynn wedges herself under one of the metal structures and climbs quickly, keeping the narrow girders beneath her as she works her way to the middle of the bridge. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I made a quick sketch of the construction, all these tiny people up there crawling around the girders like ants on a big tree. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I crouch low to fit in the space between the bottom of the bridge and the girders beneath me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Belly flat on the girder, he watched the workers pick up their equipment and put on their hard hats. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I stare down the building’s steel girders and black windows, all the way to the cracked sidewalk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The rain deluged, flooding the girder and running into the aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z One of the does had held back from the bilgewater, and the upstream girder under the bridge had caught her across the back. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Before they were skeletons, they were crossbeams and girders. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She listened, not hearing the workers below or Sam Gribley, who was creeping along the girder to her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I stopped, looking around me; the girders marched off rhythmically into the dark, over the cobblestones the red lights shone. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Dropping to the horizontal girder, he flattened out on his belly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We passed the famous Shah Faisal Mosque on the way there, reputedly the biggest mosque in the world, with its giant concrete girders and soaring minarets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Now Sam, flattened out on the girder, was watching them walk toward the foreman. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He continued straight through, into an inner chamber, just missing a network of steel girders and maintenance ladders. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Steel girders replaced wood-framing, exteriors were made of brick or granite, and designs favored straight, simple lines. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He measured his body width against the width of the girder. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She was crouching in a narrow metal channel supported in a framework of girders and struts. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He was backing away when Frightful lit on the girder and, putting one foot in front of the other, ran to the eggs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In less than two seconds, Frightful was back on the horizontal girder of the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She peered at the girder, waiting for the little falcons to thrust up their heads. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Her bones are steel girders, anchored in cement. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z At the fifth vertical from the mountain shore, he eased onto the wide horizontal girder and lay down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The train started to slow and then sped up again, then slowed again, and black steel girders covered with years of oil and dirt became dimly visible outside the windows. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z It is long enough to stretch beneath me and onto a second girder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She walked the girder until she came to a plate that joined the girder to the webbing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Others were flayed and stripped, showing rusty iron girder bones. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The rotted timbers collapsed and the pickup fell between the girders and then it went through the ice and was gone. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Frightful did not see the cherry picker until Flip’s head and arm came up over the horizontal girder. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “There’s that nest everyone’s so riled up about,” he said to Dan Martin, a Mohawk Indian whose balance and fearlessness on high girders made him one of the most valuable bridge workers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I looked up at the black girders of the huge bridge and saw a figure scamper precariously from perch to perch. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I crouched down some more to get a closer peek inside one of our girder grids. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I glanced over at Rose, who was bent over a model, building a girder. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z People were clambering over twisted struts and girders to get up to the bitter cold air. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Among them are the soaring “Figolu,” with its suspended cluster of sea buoys, and “Mahatma,” a parabolic girder that pivots in the breeze. Art Review: Soaring Nods to Industry, Camping on an Island for the Summer 2011-06-02T21:43:30Z He had made his way on to a catwalk, literally up among the building’s girders, when the moment that would forever define the evening suddenly arrived. The Night Marilyn Sang to JFK: Rare Photos 2012-05-18T07:17:53Z We'll find you somewhere underneath all of this glorious sonic rubble, twisted melody girders and the debris of a hundred ideas! This week's new tracks 2012-11-10T00:06:00Z A detailed 3-D model was created by Partisans, the Toronto architecture and design firm, which spent months scanning every girder, duct, pipe and hole. The Luminato Festival Turns a Former Power Plant Into a Creative Engine 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Well, we're talking about a place where even today, men wear skirts without pants in spite of the cold and relish a beverage made out of girders. The Eagle bears the standard Scottish stereotype 2011-03-28T09:55:28Z It boomed, doomy and industrial, like a sledgehammer striking a girder. David Nicholls Every Good Boy 2011-07-22T22:01:00Z The nameless city in Sam Thompson’s fine first novel, “Communion Town,” is “a world of gray dawn twilight and blackened stone above, rainwater dripping from the girders.” Newly Released: ‘Communion Town’ by Sam Thompson, and More 2013-12-25T20:57:22Z Have you ever seen Mr Magoo standing on the end of a girder, arms outstretched over the void? Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z Listening to Pusha T rap is like watching a skyscraper get built one steel girder at a time: Every step is carefully programmed, every angle is crisp, and the sum total effect is overpowering. The 28 Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The trust that manages the park believes the scale of the installation with its 28ft girders, is too big. London 9/11 sculpture shelved after opposition from UK victims' families 2011-03-08T21:26:06Z Those nice "made in Scotland from girders" ads are long forgotten. Hard Sell: Irn-Bru 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z With the Bechers, the “decisive moment” of 35 mm photography gets replaced by a gray-on-gray stasis that feels as though it could last forever — as though it’s as immovable as the steel girders it depicts. Photography’s Delightful Obsessives 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z "So the train mov'd slowly along the Bridge of Tay, / Until it was about midway, / Then the central girders with a crash gave way, / And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!" John Mullan's 10 of the best: bridges 2012-07-13T21:55:04Z Every so often there’s an old wooden girder bridge, like something out of an old cowboy movie. Journeys: Park the Pickup: Santa Fe by Bicycle 2012-10-28T05:00:23Z Adjacent is a new Swatch-Omega museum, now a skeleton of steel girders covered in plastic tarps and scaffolding, and just beyond is the construction site of a new Swatch headquarters. At Omega, a New Factory for Orders from China 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z It starts with a man named David Pepin fantasizing about the death of his wife, Alice, imagining her being struck by lightning, falling onto train tracks, being hit by a falling girder. Books of The Times: Marital Death Wish: ?Mr. Peanut? by Adam Ross 2010-06-21T21:46:00Z Structurally, it is built around a central core that will contain the main mechanical elements of the building, with the helix-shaped envelope supported by arced, fin-like girders anchored into this large, inner column. Review | The Helix is a distraction. Amazon’s new headquarters will change more than just its Arlington neighborhood. 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Playing like Dee Dee is more akin to driving rivets into a steel girder with a machine, except the machine is your own flesh and bone. My failed Ramones audition 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Nearby hung the designer and architect Joseph Urban’s murals of skyscraper girders and Niagara Falls. Trove of Forgotten Steichen Photos Heads for Auction 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards,” which is an amazing quote, and I think right on. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z The changeable set takes off from the famous photograph of New York construction workers eating lunch perched on a girder many stories up. Theater Review: Circus Oz’s ‘From the Ground Up’ at New Victory Theater 2012-12-09T23:30:06Z It's like watching buildings and cars and girders and fighter jets endlessly smashing around inside a gigantic washing machine for two hours, interspersed with wisecracks. Behold: the Marvel Avengers Assemble 3D experience 2012-05-20T19:00:09Z At the time of writing it remains a wreck, girders protruding, chimney stacks exposed, the building open to the sky as if a passing giant has stooped to take a bite before lumbering on. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z He is bending the girders of an inherited form into a new science of understanding. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z Crisscrossing like girders on a bridge, these pieces suggest a kind of architectural lace. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Ando said she wanted to create "a meditative environment" from the girders. London 9/11 sculpture shelved after opposition from UK victims' families 2011-03-08T21:26:06Z It’s dynamic and arresting, like a rhythmic construction site, an inspired jam played on steel beams and girders. The Washington Ballet, perfectly balanced in Forsythe’s ‘In the Middle’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The design is girders and huge platform beds on casters; the sound is amplified and dispersed; around the auditorium, monitors quote from the work of Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey and Ryan Trecartin. Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Me: Mr. Magoo got where he wanted to go, too, but only after talking to a cactus, falling down a manhole and accidentally walking onto a swinging girder at a construction site. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Is he as tech-savvy as he thinks he is? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The last major work at the Met was in the summer of 2010 when the company reinforced the stage with steel girders to support the 45-ton set for its “Ring” cycle. Metropolitan Opera Embarks on $60 Million Renovation 2012-12-05T23:10:28Z “I painted the floor in a high-gloss red color and there’s a cast-iron girder holding the ceiling up painted in red as well,” Ms. Djurkovic said. Below the Line: Designing 'The Imitation Game' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The furniture stands on a transparent floor underpinned by a grid of girders resting on litter-strewn earth. Betrayal – review 2012-05-26T23:05:37Z It’s a massive bunker with exposed steel pipes, girders and blast walls. ‘Brain zapping’: An experimental treatment for PTSD that war veterans say has changed their lives 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The textures of his prints suggest the grain of marble or granite, and the simple lines could be engraved patterns or diagrams of steel girders. Galleries: ‘Is It Propaganda? Or Is It Political Art?’ These days, it’s booming: a hive of new hotels, and the girders and scaffolding of future hotels being clanged together. Dragons, Apes, Mantas and Birds 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Sheet metal and girders are incorporated throughout as both structural elements and reminders of the park’s previous incarnation. Philadelphia’s new Rail Park is the city’s answer to Manhattan’s High Line 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In their usual setting at the foundation's Perry Green headquarters, the Large Two Forms are attached to steel girders, which are buried in the ground. Henry Moore sculpture makes epic journey 2012-05-21T15:01:50Z Hard Times, however, is as toughly constructed as a Coketown girder. Reader reviews roundup: Critic picks 2012-02-13T16:26:39Z Each was custom-built to accommodate for a slight warp of the 53-year-old girders. A 6-Year Refit Winds Back the Clock at a Berlin Landmark 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Still used by up to 200 trains a day, the supposed endless repainting of the bridge's girders became a national metaphor for an endless task. Forth rail bridge and Gibraltar cave in running for world heritage site status 2012-05-28T16:10:36Z The girders in “Underway” are real, yet they form an abstract geometry, and it’s that geometry that you see before you focus on the subject. Oils that are different, yet complementary, at Prographica 2014-04-03T20:49:48Z The iron girders were gory with rust; rust was bleeding profusely out of the bolted panels and leaking down the concrete legs into the river. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z Last spring the Met installed massive steel girders to support the part of the stage in the wing where the set will be stored between performances. Huge Set for 'The Ring' Arrives at the Met 2010-07-28T19:57:00Z Static shots show three sculptural objects — an ax, a marble log girder and an altered harp — on pedestals in all-white rooms. Art in Review 2010-03-04T22:24:00Z Called the Window on the World, it is a true cabinet of curiosities with more that 800 objects, including a Tay Bridge girder and a 1930s gyrocopter, displayed up to 18 metres high. New National Museum of Scotland unveiled after ?47m revamp 2011-07-27T23:05:04Z What links them are structure and destruction: The artist focuses on slats, beams, girders and trusses, often revealed nakedly by missing or decayed surfaces. In the galleries: Art that’s coolly conceived, rigorously made 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z You could wind up on a girder in a hard hat.’ Happy Days creator Garry Marshall on the Fonz's jump: 'Sharks were big then. It was after Jaws!' 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Though the musical opened on Broadway in 2008, the film version feels “as permanent as the girders of the George Washington Bridge,” A.O. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Great Performances’ and ‘In the Heights’ 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z But in so doing, he goes into a construction zone and under a falling steel girder. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: On Day Eight, Just One More Time 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z There are men dangerously resetting arch girders to prevent a cave-in. 'Pitmen Painters,' story of miners-turned-artists, opens April 26 2012-04-18T22:32:07Z You can see reflections in skyscraper windows before they shatter, then watch steel girders bend and break before they finally collapse. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Godzilla’ bigger, louder than predecessors 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z A major renovation of the Metropolitan Opera was never part of the overall concept, though last summer the stage was fortified with steel girders to support the 45-ton set for Robert Lepage’s new “Ring” production. Critic?s Notebook: A Citadel of Culture Shows a Friendlier Face 2010-12-31T22:50:05Z Nicky is pretending to unfasten a rivet on a girder, as if he’s hard at work. After 40 years I finally tracked down my dead brother 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Sometimes you catch someone humming during the beginning of "Donkey Kong" and get a foot stomp as the ape knocks down girders on the screen. Arcade a blast from the past 2011-03-16T05:00:00Z Almost too big for the gallery, one girder even bursts through a wall. Artist of the week 98: Oscar Tuazon 2010-07-28T09:44:00Z Behind a pile of rocks the other afternoon, out of sight from the road, workers scurried around a 340-ton, 21-foot-high solid granite boulder, trussed with red steel girders, gleaming under the desert sun. Los Angeles County Museum Moves a 340-Ton Rock 2011-10-07T12:00:00Z Huge slabs dangled off damaged nearby buildings from twisted metal girders. Fleeing Gaza mother cries: 'What did my children do to deserve this?' 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Press Trust of India reported the crane is used to install precast box girders while building highway and high-speed rail bridges. 14 workers killed in the collapse of a crane being used to build a bridge in India 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z “As somebody who’s been coming here forever, having those steel girders would lessen the natural beauty. Just let things take their natural course.” Erosion forces Olympic National Park to take a hard look at Kalaloch Lodge 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z A huge metal construction girder has fallen onto a busy road in Bangkok, killing at least one person and critically injuring several more. Footage shows moment of Bangkok highway collapse 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Those girders are scheduled to be installed over several weeks, starting this fall, between midnight and 5 a.m. Saving the next P-22 starts with a million ‘hyperlocal’ seeds and a bare-bones nursery 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z He recalled the scene a year ago, amid fears of a Russian landing, when the beaches were prepared for battle, marked by trenches and steel girders welded into tank traps. Odesa Was Ready to Reclaim Its Beaches. Then a Dam Broke. 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z A construction crew was removing a clock base from a Pine Street sidewalk on April 25 when they broke through the tunnel ceiling at Westlake Station, damaging a concrete girder above the northbound tracks. After ceiling puncture, Seattle light rail resuming normal service Monday 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z But there are dozens of other girders that run perpendicular to the direction of train tracks. How a demolition crew punctured the Westlake Station ceiling 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The girder was part of a project to build elevated highways in the city. Footage shows moment of Bangkok highway collapse 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Using precast girders means the span can be constructed first on one side of the freeway and then the other, so traffic can be diverted in the wee hours to other lanes. Saving the next P-22 starts with a million ‘hyperlocal’ seeds and a bare-bones nursery 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Beneath the girders of the city’s bridge across the Euphrates, three 18-year-olds return home from school for lunch. 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Beneath the iron girders of the city’s bridge across the Euphrates, three 18-year-olds are returning home from school for lunch. 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The lumbering machine rolled off a flatbed truck and positioned itself to begin clearing splintered sheets of plywood, charred beams, mangled sheets of metal, twisted girders, chicken wire and slabs of plaster. 'Take back what the devil stole': A Black church struggles to find answers after fire 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z All of Highway 520 across Lake Washington will close this weekend to drivers and cyclists as Washington State Department of Transportation crews install girders across the road for a new bike and pedestrian bridge. Highway 520 to close all weekend 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Barriers were blocking roads, welders were making tank traps from steel girders, and thousands of bottles were being filled with petrol to make Molotov cocktails to throw at the Russian tanks everyone expected. Ukraine war: The friends who fought Russia's invasion 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z A preliminary report issued a year ago concluded the collapse began at the structure’s west end and said there had been no primary fractures in sections of welded steel girders considered “fracture critical.” Study of Pittsburgh bridge collapse looking at leg fractures 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Crews will also place 13 girders over the highway, which are part of the foundation for a new 3-acre lid under construction in Montlake. 30-hour closure of Highway 520 floating bridge starts late Saturday 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z In the months ahead, more girders will be placed just to the east of the lid for a new bike and pedestrian bridge connecting Lake Washington boulevard to East Montlake Park. Highway 520 closed to car traffic this weekend 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Crews will install 30 girders over the highway to support the new bridge, which will hook into the existing trail across the lake. Highway 520 to close all weekend 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z When the bomb went off, the downward force of the blast put tremendous pressure on the bridge’s girders, the steel beams that hold up the roadway. How Ukraine blew up a key Russian bridge 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z The engineers are building steel girders around them to protect them during the upheaval. Millennium-old Viking ships shored up for Oslo move 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z People can watch this weekend’s girder placement on WSDOT’s construction camera, which updates every 10 minutes, the department said. 30-hour closure of Highway 520 floating bridge starts late Saturday 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z In July 2015, cracks were found in girders that supported the tracks at the Dulles station. Silver Line’s second phase was to be different. It fell into the same trap. 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Workers also will install seven girders to support an HOV ramp leading to and from a new pedestrian and cyclist deck bridge over the highway. Highway 520 to close all weekend 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z All three bridge spans have been outfitted with 24-hour measuring devices, plus closed-circuit cameras within the girder sections where cracks formed in the 2010s. West Seattle Bridge reopens Sunday. Here’s what you should know. 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Even the concrete tops of bridge girders have been exposed, and would require special care from contractors during grinding Tuesday night, but they’re in good condition, Harper said. Repairs arrive for broken lane of I-90 in North Bend, off-limits since January 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Sound Transit says contractor Kiewit now needs to engineer special foundations, so that trackway columns will support girders and trains despite the liquefiable soil. More delays for light rail to Bellevue, Redmond, Federal Way, Lynnwood 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z In 2017, the city completed the Transbay Transit Center only a year late, but the $2 billion terminal abruptly shut down six weeks later after crews discovered two cracked steel girders. What takes years and costs $20K? A San Francisco trash can 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Crews with the Washington State Department of Transportation will be setting girders for the new Main Street Bridge during that time. Northbound I-405 to be closed Wednesday and Thursday night in Bellevue 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Now complete, the shadowy network of bridge steel looks less like a banjo than a pipe organ, filling the hollow girders with as many as 16 broad tubes. A look inside the West Seattle Bridge reveals ‘banjo tight’ repairs 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z These include carbon-fiber wrapping of cracks in the concrete girders; a new power control system; and rewiring of communications cables between the control tower and the bridge. Spokane Street Bridge in West Seattle closed 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z These include carbon-fiber wrapping of cracks in the concrete girders; a new power control system; and rewiring of communications cables between the control tower and the low bridge. Spokane Street Bridge in West Seattle is stuck 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z There’s a similar synergy to Rose’s prints, which use forms cut in wood to embody and emulate metal girders, plates and mechanisms. Review | In the galleries: Artistic portals leading to and encouraging wonder 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Constructed on hulking concrete planks and enormous girders, the structures would stretch nearly a mile over both rivers and support a landscape of trees, grass, scenic ponds, horse trails and walking paths. Environmental groups pull support from L.A. River Master Plan at the 11th hour 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z By contrast, Leithauser’s witty “Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry” blueprints the struts and girders, the iron armature, needed to create even the airiest lyric. Review | Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Completing that project soon is critical to replace structurally deficient beams, girders and columns, said the railroad, and avoid collapse, which would have significant effects on train travel. Amtrak moves to seize control of Union Station 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In a cavernous factory just outside Metzange in France, a group of men are building vast pipes and girders from reddish steel almost an inch thick. Will France's 'forgotten' workers get what they want? 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Crews must build concrete anchors and frames within the hollow girders. No ‘ghost trucks’ for West Seattle Bridge concrete work 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z At KAN, workers cut long pieces of girder using blow torches and angle grinders, welding them together into triangular barriers used to bolster fortifications and slow the movement of tanks and tracked armoured personnel carriers. 'Hedgehogs' v tanks, as Kyiv braces for Russian onslaught 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Those cables are to be tightened, which compresses and strengthens the concrete girders, a method known as post-tensioning. Why the concrete driver strike will delay fixes to the West Seattle Bridge 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The report said investigators found no primary fractures in sections of welded steel girders they examined that were considered “fracture critical.” Initial report doesn’t ID cause of Pittsburgh bridge failure 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The rise of white collar work in downtown L.A. — and the invention of elevators and steel girder construction — also contributed to skyline development at the turn of the century, Deverell said. Why is L.A.'s iconic skyline far from the beach — unlike Miami, Seattle and other cities? 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z In this final phase of bridge work, contractors will string 46 miles of steel cable within the hollow girders, to strengthen the bridge from within, city officials said. Final phase of repair work begins for West Seattle Bridge 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Oleksandr Bodyuk, the company's deputy director, said workers were also using reinforcing bars and girders salvaged from construction sites to produce spiked, movable defences against wheeled vehicles, including trucks. 'Hedgehogs' v tanks, as Kyiv braces for Russian onslaught 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Repair crews from Kraemer North America need pumped-in concrete to build large blocks on the girder floors, then allow 28 days for curing. Why the concrete driver strike will delay fixes to the West Seattle Bridge 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the high-rise bridge, built in 1984, requires strengthening steel through the hollow girders, and carbon wrapping, to extend its life perhaps 30 years. West Seattle’s lower swing bridge back open after getting stuck 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z They can also penetrate materials that x-rays cannot, enabling researchers to image the interiors of big objects such as a running engine or a steel girder. Reactor mishap idles nearly half of U.S. research with neutron beams 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Crews there will be setting new girders within the drawspan decks, where new steel road grates are being installed. Montlake interchange and Highway 99 tunnel to close this weekend 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z I point out the concrete girder that I think the bird flew from. Extreme Birding Competition Is a Cutthroat Test of Skill, Strategy and Endurance 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z That led to the structure operating as two independent girders that took on weight it was not designed to handle. Missing bolts among issues that sparked Mexico City metro collapse, auditor finds 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, boaters passing underneath saw a crew use an arched catwalk to climb through girders, eventually disappearing behind huge blankets of sheet-metal insulating the entire belly of the bridge. Montlake Bridge remains closed for repairs — unless you’re a sailor, cyclist or pedestrian 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z His creations, which ranged from tabletop size to more than 40 feet high, resembled a combination of planetariums, construction girders, carnival rides and pinball machines. George Rhoads, creator of whimsical ‘ball machine’ sculptures, dies at 95 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z On a recent summer hike, a group of boys pushed one end of the rusty girder, swinging it in circular fashion. History in the hills: 2 classic Pacific Northwest hikes for history buffs 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z A nest box has been installed on the girder, and the Peregrine is sitting in it, plain as day. Extreme Birding Competition Is a Cutthroat Test of Skill, Strategy and Endurance 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Last year, he dressed up in a black vest, white shirt and wide-brimmed hat, the traditional dress of a German journeyman builder, for a celebration marking the completion of the factory’s girder structure. Tesla’s Factory Near Berlin Runs Into Activists, Red Tape and Lizards 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z The lower swing bridge remains open but also needs $11.4 million in repairs, including girder strengthening and new rotating parts. Feds award $11.2 million for West Seattle Bridge repairs 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Fissures in columns and beams, lack of adequate space between girders and other issues labeled "questionable construction practices" were among the deficiencies, said Gomez. Probe finds new defects after Mexico City metro crash 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z These included missing bolts on some girders, and unfinished or poorly executed welding. 'Construction flaws' caused deadly Mexico City metro crash 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z He trespassed at night, jumping fences, edging across girders, scrambling up skyscrapers, stadiums, bridges and construction cranes, joining a fringe community of like-minded adventurers who call themselves urban explorers. A Rogue Climber Running From the Law Was Fleeing His Own Trauma 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Its cobblestone thoroughfare is lined with 48 pocket-size jewelry storefronts and a jumble of gravity-defying work spaces propped up beyond the bridge’s girders. In Florence, Ponte Vecchio Jewelers Long for Tourists’ Return 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z The work includes repairing the bridge seats, on which the girders rest. NCDOT plans overnight closures for Emerald Isle Bridge 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z In earlier single-direction shutdowns, the girder setting went quicker than expected, he said. Highway 520 bridge closes in both directions this weekend 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The detonation sent huge steel girders designed to subdue the explosion into the air. Exeter WW2 bomb: Students to return in 'coming days' 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Contractors will install dozens of concrete girders above the roadway, similar to the eastbound closure last weekend. Westbound 520 bridge to close for weekend lid construction 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z “There were mangled Americans, some 300 of them, piled three deep and pinned down with large steel girders and hatch covers,” he recalled. Hundreds died on World War II ‘hell ships’. Now there’s an effort to identify the dead. 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z This is the first of four weekend closures to set a total 114 girders, similar to other lids east of Lake Washington. Eastbound Highway 520 bridge closes this weekend for Montlake construction 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z This weekend, they’ll set the final 15 concrete girders over eastbound lanes and 15 over the westbound lanes. Highway 520 bridge closes in both directions this weekend 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The carbon lends stiffness to the concrete girders and provides a stronger surface to bolt anchor blocks inside the hollow bridge, where new tensioning cables reinforce weak areas of the 590-foot-long mainspan. Repair platforms removed from the West Seattle Bridge as stabilization work winds down 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z The primary method is additional “post-tensioning,” in which strands of steel rope are strung through the hollow girders, then tightened at extreme pressure to support the concrete horizontally. Mayor Durkan aims to repair and reopen the West Seattle Bridge by mid-2022. Can the work move faster? 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Either option would only affect the cracked central mainspan and two sidespans, where the hollow concrete girders are under severe stress. Mayor Durkan wants to repair, not replace, the cracked West Seattle Bridge 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Contractors will block all four lanes while they install steel frames that will temporarily support the new girders and concrete deck being created overhead. Light-rail construction to close southbound I-5 overnight this weekend in Mountlake Terrace 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Crew members spent nearly seven hours removing the roof, walls and girders that held the large streetcar in place. Rare electric Vicksburg streetcar from the 1900s restored 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z The cutting and lifting are being handled by a giant floating crane called the VB 10,000, which resembles a giant archway of steel girders anchored to a pair of barges. Demolition starts on big ship stranded 14 months off Georgia 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z During the January repairs, workers will jack up and then brace the girders by a few inches, while grout and contact plates are replaced, Pearce said. West Seattle motorists can’t catch a break. Now First Avenue South bridge needs urgent repairs. 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Contractors are working to stabilize the bridge by wrapping portions of the cracked concrete girders in carbon fiber. Optimism increasing in ability to fix West Seattle Bridge 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Contractors are working six days a week to stabilize the bridge by wrapping portions of the cracked concrete girders in carbon fiber. Optimism grows in ability to fix West Seattle Bridge for another 15-plus years of traffic 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Hanging in the sky like a skeletal flying saucer, suspended by cables from three mountaintop towers, is a giant triangular structure of girders. A Rip in the Fabric of Interstellar Dreams 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Was it the 466-foot home run, for now his longest ever, that would’ve gone entirely out of Citi Field, except it hit a girder supporting the right field roof that, heretofore, thought itself safe? Perspective | Juan Soto is already absurdly good — and he might be getting better 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z The repair plan for the bridge calls for all the strands in all of the four girders to be replaced, Fernandez said. 'Horrible sequence of mistakes': How bullet train contractors botched a bridge project 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z This month, they’ll further strengthen it by stringing groups of steel cables inside the hollow girders. Optimism increasing in ability to fix West Seattle Bridge 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z This month, they’ll strengthen it further by stringing groups of steel cables inside the hollow girders. Optimism grows in ability to fix West Seattle Bridge for another 15-plus years of traffic 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The financial patchwork is being introduced as crews from Kraemer North America begin to apply carbon-fiber wrap to the bridge’s hollow concrete girders, to be followed by steel cables that tighten the girders. How the cracked West Seattle Bridge will push city into debt 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Contractors this week are expected to begin emergency shoring work there, using suspended platforms under the 140-foot-high girders to add carbon wrap and steel tightening strands. West Seattle Bridge declared a ‘civil emergency’ by Mayor Jenny Durkan 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z I found another possibility, though, under the massive girders that support Cannon Street Bridge. Where are the bones of Hans Holbein? I spent lockdown solving art's grisliest mystery 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Still, the federal rating for the spans including girders, known as the superstructure, declined from “good” to “fair” condition, based on the National Bridge Inventory. West Seattle’s low swing bridge is cracked, too, and needs repairs 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z In other words, he’s making a professional judgment that a 40-year time frame demands seismic upgrades, while a 15-year life span is tolerable with girder strengthening alone. Optimism grows in ability to fix West Seattle Bridge for another 15-plus years of traffic 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Carbon will also be attached inside the hollow girders. SDOT plans new cables and carbon wraps to keep West Seattle Bridge standing 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Pocketing aluminum-framed doors and clerestories, raw beams and steel girders are among details of note. 'Good Wife' composer looks to score a sale for Santa Monica architectural 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z The city is racing to reinforce the 36-year-old bridge, which was closed March 23 due to rapidly expanding shear cracks in the massive concrete girders. SDOT says a shallow tunnel could be an option to replace the cracked West Seattle Bridge 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Rules implemented in the wake of the disaster laid the foundations for a new standard in box girder bridge design and the Cleddau collapse was regarded as the last major bridge disaster in the UK. Bridge disaster remembered: 'It was mayhem' 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The first utterance underscored the human girders that college football players, particularly the dominant black stars, are to the multibillion-dollar sport for which they are inequitably remunerated and by which they are vastly exploited. Perspective | Everyone wants sports back, but players aren’t chattel to be used toward that goal 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Cables will be stretched taut inside the girders. SDOT plans new cables and carbon wraps to keep West Seattle Bridge standing 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z He slipped away and went backstage, scaling the catwalks and girders until he was high above the stage. Bill Ray, Life magazine photographer of celebrities and rebels, dies at 83 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Acting City Manager Bill Howell says there are rotten beams as well as detached girders and brackets in the building constructed in the early 1980s. Alaska public building’s rotting floor could bring high cost 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z He applauded the state Department of Transportation which inspected the bridge and revised travel to keep traffic away from the damaged girders. Gov. declares emergency for I-5 overpass damage in Chehalis 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z These projects brought new life to cities after World War I, but they also presented new dangers for the construction workers who placed girders, poured concrete and pounded nails. The evolution of the hard hat 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z From March through December, passersby might spot employees from the engineer’s office and firms hired for the inspections checking pillars, girders, decks and other parts of bridges. Bridge inspectors go high, low to check structures’ safety 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The Fourteen Mile Bridge along Lincoln County Road 37 near Ranger is a press-brake-formed steel tub girder bridge. Bridge built with tech previously unused in West Virginia 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z They methodically poke the weak spots in the deck, until spaces between the girders reveal a honeycomb shape. Viaduct demolition reaches dramatic phase just feet from Pioneer Square buildings 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The Arizona Department of Transportation says workers recently installed the last of over 1,000 girders needed for construction of 40 bridges for the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway. Girder installation a milestone in Phoenix freeway project 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z The artwork also will incorporate replicas of the girders from a 100-year-old bridge that longtime residents say served as a lifeline during decades of racial segregation. Artists hope Purple Line station designs will inspire wonder and showcase communities 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z Built over three years, Martin Tower was constructed of - what else? - steel, lots and lots of steel, from the girders and exterior cladding to movable walls, furniture and even window blinds. Downfall: Defunct steelmaker’s global HQ to be imploded 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Built over three years, Martin Tower was constructed of — what else? — steel, lots and lots of steel, from the girders and exterior cladding to movable walls, furniture and even window blinds. Downfall: Defunct steelmaker’s global HQ to be imploded 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z A more deliberate operation follows, to saw and extract the girders alongside the buildings. Viaduct demolition reaches dramatic phase just feet from Pioneer Square buildings 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Botou Golden Integrity Roll Forming Machine Co lost some U.S. customers when tariffs pushed up prices for its machines making light steel girders and bars for building frames, according to Hope Ha, a saleswoman. To survive trade battles, China manufacturers deploy every weapon... 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Another potential and more serious issue is the cracking observed by inspectors in the reinforced concrete girders that support overhead rails. Opinion | A serious flaw in the Silver Line contract 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z A pit has been dug and girders and pillars stacked. “Philosophy of the Foot” 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Deep in the Malaysian jungle, a sprawling construction site sits abandoned, the relentless monsoon rain taking its toll on the rusting fields of steel girders. How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z A single crane will hold each girder while it’s being sliced, suspended by a pair of chains, Wallace said. Viaduct demolition reaches dramatic phase just feet from Pioneer Square buildings 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z It closed for emergency repairs in April 1988 after a large hole was found in a girder. When the L Train Shuts Down, Will the Williamsburg Bridge Come to the Rescue? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Elsewhere in Noailles, fabled for generations as a food-shopping district, it is common to see rusty steel girders propping up staircases. In a ‘French Detroit,’ a Housing Crisis Turns Deadly for Poor 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Installing these girders is challenging, and necessitates the use of highly reactive reagents. Practically simple reactions convert hydrocarbons to precious chemicals 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z You don't want to fall off the girder, so how hard would you swing? Tips From the Best Young Teachers In America - Golf Digest 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Just watching those folks hop from girder to girder gives me the willies. Dems’ stumble on Kavanaugh could prove costly 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Hulking metal machinery clatters and thrums, coughing up fibrous dust that clings to the steel girders and catches in the laborers’ throats. India sees an ancient textile, produced in colonial-era mills, as a fabric of the future 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Laundry hangs from windows, and steel girders bridge the alleylike streets, propping up the buildings. Catalan Gypsies, Unique and Embattled, Resist as Homes Are Reduced to Rubble 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z The Trump administration plans to tax Chinese industrial products such as steam turbines and iron girders starting Aug. 23. Chinese stocks jump, other markets mixed as trade in focus 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The list is heavy on industrial products such as steam turbines and iron girders. Trump going ahead with taxes on $16B in Chinese imports 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z SmartJacks are steel support systems used to permanently stabilize and level the girders and floor joists in a crawl space. Structural solutions for your failing foundation | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z His last cartoon depicted a bloated man representing the USA, impaled on a steel girder with “trade war” written on it, waving the Stars and Stripes and saying: “Take that, Canada, Mexico and Europe.” Pittsburgh cartoonist says he was fired after 25 years for making fun of Trump 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Irn-Bru – which is not, despite its famous advertising tagline, actually made from girders, but does contain a total of 32 flavouring agents – consistently outsells all other fizzy drinks in Scotland. Trump angers Scots with ban on Irn-Bru at luxury golf resort 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The girders were not manufactured by Universal Concrete. Silver Line officials rush to replace defective panels at five Phase 2 stations 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Or in the case of the Caps and their fans, to listen to hear whether the girders holding up the building are buckling. Perspective | Could it be? The Capitals are finally getting the right kind of luck in the playoffs. 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z At dawn the next day, dead men hung from the bridge’s girders and blood dripped from the beams, Rosenkrantz said. Fort Bragg paratrooper missing more than 70 years comes home 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z RIO DE JANEIRO—At the entrance to this city’s biggest slum, Maré, burly guards for local drug gangs control access, lifting heavy steel girders set into holes in the road to let cars pass. Killing of Woman Who Gave Voice to Rio’s Poor Jars a Divided Brazil 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z I still remember when we built the hay shed and the holes for the iron girders filled with a foot of water, and I found frogs swimming in them. ‘Cows carry flesh, but they carry personality too’: the hard lessons of farming 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The girders were manufactured by a different contractor, Chesapeake, Va.-based Coastal Precast Systems. Silver Line officials rush to replace defective panels at five Phase 2 stations 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The girders will be installed on a vacant state-owned parcel about two blocks from the bridge, near Talbot and Michigan avenues. Part of historic Maryland bridge will be preserved along Purple Line trail 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z These are the girders of the economy — the housing stock, transportation systems and financial prudence that enable industry to flourish. The Amazon finalists are already building tech economies. Which are the best? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z "Me and a friend lifted up a steel girder with about five other blokes and removed a bloke from underneath it," he said. Five dead as explosion destroys shop 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Just as if Charlie weren't as athletic as a prize fighter, and as if he didn't, just for exercise and fun, climb all over the skyscraping girders of the news stages. 100 years ago, Charlie Chaplin began work in his new studio 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Or an emptiness so sudden it leaves the girders whanging in the absence of wind, the sky milk-blue and astringent? The second volume of John Ashbery’s collected poems is a tribute 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z State and county project officials say the historic Talbot Avenue bridge’s steel girders, which support it and form short walls on the sides, will be saved. A historic bridge in the path of the Purple Line will be preserved, but how? 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z The president is eroding the unwritten norms that serve as the civic girders beneath our political and legal infrastructure. Perspective | Trump’s first year: A damage assessment 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z From others, it is an eyesore, its crumbling sandstone walls riddled with bullets and saved from collapse by gray steel girders. Beirut civil war museum is haunting, but few Lebanese want to disturb the ghosts 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Within a few months, workers had erected prefabricated concrete walls for the enormous new building and assembled the roof girders. What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z It's also worth having a look at the cast-iron girders holding up the canopies which are decorated with mouldings of leaves and flowers. Track suits: More railway stations worth lingering at 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z The other girder would lie on the ground as a short wall between the station and the adjacent Capital Crescent Trail. A historic bridge in the path of the Purple Line will be preserved, but how? 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z The metal girders of bridges along the course scrambled the digital compass on his iPhone. Blind Runner’s Wearable Technology Gets Off to Complicated Start 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Steel girders maintain the structural integrity in places, making clear where the original stonework was lost to shelling, bullets or fire. Beirut civil war museum is haunting, but few Lebanese want to disturb the ghosts 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Under gray skies and flights of passing geese, the house was borne on a grid of yellow steel girders atop four sets of eight-wheel dollies that looked like the landing gear of an airliner. A 47-ton witness to Washington’s past is slowly inched to the present 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The man, believed to be a former security guard, climbed on to the girders above the checkouts in Tesco Extra in Portman Road, Reading. Tesco evacuated over one-man protest 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The girders would be decorated with photos of Lyttonsville residents and other historic images as part of a “sculptural photo album,” according to draft designs. A historic bridge in the path of the Purple Line will be preserved, but how? 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z But the artistic iron guardrails and girders running along either side of the bridge were restored. Rebuilt Yesler Way bridge to reopen Tuesday after 16-month face-lift 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z It was a harrowing night: in the early hours of the morning an iron girder crashed down onto the roof above them. Cuba's crumbling infrastructure no match for might of Irma 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The house, which had been raised from the ground, was encased in four vertical girders at its corners and bound with chains. A 47-ton witness to Washington’s past is slowly inched to the present 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Nearly a dozen others were missing and feared trapped beneath the huge mound of broken concrete slabs and twisted steel girders. 24 Dead in Mumbai Residential Building Collapse 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Instead, they suggested placing the girders along both sides of the trail so walkers and cyclists would still feel like they were going over a bridge. A historic bridge in the path of the Purple Line will be preserved, but how? 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z The bridge’s support columns at street level were removed, so a single span of concrete resting upon steel girders crosses the entire distance above Fourth and Fifth avenues. Rebuilt Yesler Way bridge to reopen Tuesday after 16-month face-lift 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z An excavator was at the site, sifting through mud, chunks of concrete and steel girders. At least 22 killed in building collapse in India as rain wreaks havoc across South Asia 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The Post Independent reports https://goo.gl/CuSgm5 no one was injured when steel girders underpinning the old Grand Avenue bridge fell across some railroad tracks Tuesday evening. Bridge being demolished in Glenwood collapses; no injuries 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z The bridges there now are built with a multiple I-beam girder system with a 28 feet roadway width. Twin Bridges to combine in $29M project 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Madden wrote that the state would leave the girders to the county and the community to use as they wish to mark the bridge’s history. A historic bridge in the path of the Purple Line will be preserved, but how? 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Photos and video posted on social media showed an enormous blaze ripping through the girders of the building’s roof. Fire Tears Through London’s Camden Lock Market 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The basement floors were dug, and steel girders put in to support the structure. A catalogue of White House technological upgrades: Flushing toilets, a phone line, air conditioning. Oh, and Twitter. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Dutch tourist Justin van Schaick saw someone climbing on the girders under the Aurora Bridge, which is more than 160 feet above Lake Union. Selfie-shooting man climbs Aurora Bridge for exclusive view of July Fourth fireworks 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Instead of erecting the steel girders one piece at a time during nighttime lane closures, workers are assembling the girders in the median and then moving them into place. New construction techniques credited for quicker bridge fix 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Community activists said the letter missed that they had asked that the girders be placed along the trail at the east end of the Lyttonsville station. A historic bridge in the path of the Purple Line will be preserved, but how? 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z But this 6-foot-long section of steel girder was recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Center. NATO’s Vital Role in the War on Terror 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z When plans for the new Kosciuszko Bridge were being developed in 2010, nearby neighborhoods were asked about four bridge types: cable-stayed; through arch, like the Hell Gate Bridge; deck arch; and box girder. 3 New Bridges Rise in New York, With Looks That Could Stop Traffic 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Greene’s hopes of an early spring completion for the Arkansas 162 relocation project were delayed because of a problem with bearing pads that cushion steel girders for the bridge. Alma focuses on connecting downtown 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Two-girder bridges are critical targets, since only one girder will remain to support loads if the other fails. Upgrading our infrastructure: Targeting repairs for locks, dams and bridges 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Charles Lattuca, who oversees the Purple Line for the MTA, said the state is still considering residents’ request to put the girders along the trail. A historic bridge in the path of the Purple Line will be preserved, but how? 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z They designed a bridge with six concrete girders, approach spans and three steel trusses. Blue Bridge celebrates 90th birthday 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Rogers showed how the state replaced old steel girders and rivets with new bolts. Bridge in Larose getting $24M upgrade 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z A truck carrying heavy equipment struck the Rockville Road overpass Tuesday, damaging bridge girders and showering the highway with concrete chunks. INDOT: I-465 lanes could reopen 1 day after overpass damage 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Witnesses testified that Beach preferred to scramble about the structure on the girders, rather than on scaffolding that had been erected. The District’s Old Post Office exacted a steep toll on the men who built it 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z He said the Lyttonsville station’s artwork will include steel girders, whether replicas or the real thing. A historic bridge in the path of the Purple Line will be preserved, but how? 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z He is adding three feet of depth while also removing the center column, which involved installing a 4,000-pound girder across the ceiling for support. Final Frontier in Home Renovation: Giving Garages a Makeover 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Additional girder repairs and replacements are also planned, as well as a complete upgrade of the controls and electronic brains that actually direct the bridge deck’s movements. Bridge in Larose getting $24M upgrade 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Metal girders and the corrugated iron roof crashed onto worshippers as the structure collapsed. Many structural faults in collapsed Nigerian church: Expert 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z He had chosen to bridge two girders with a wooden plank, but it was only an inch thick and it buckled under his weight. The District’s Old Post Office exacted a steep toll on the men who built it 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Tim Cupples, Montgomery’s coordinator on the state Purple Line project, said the county will explore the residents’ proposal to install the girders along the trail. A historic bridge in the path of the Purple Line will be preserved, but how? 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Hundreds were inside Reigners Bible Church International in the city of Uyo on Saturday for the episcopal ordination of founder Akan Weeks when the metal girders fell and the corrugated iron roof caved in. Climbing death toll of Nigerian church collapse reaches 160 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Rising 110 feet in the air, the metal girder bridge’s twin towers, with their tear-drop tops, form part of a familiar, industrial backdrop in this part of Louisiana. Bridge in Larose getting $24M upgrade 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z While they waited for the crane, Eyibio tried to help a man whose legs were trapped under a steel girder. At Least 160 Dead in Nigeria Church Collapse: 'We Saw Others Dying All Around Us' 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z He’d fallen almost all the way to the ground — 50 feet — without striking anything, but his head hit a projecting girder right before the basement. The District’s Old Post Office exacted a steep toll on the men who built it 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z LAGOS, Nigeria — Metal girders and the roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, a hospital director said Sunday. Hospital Director: 160 Dead in Collapsed Nigerian Church 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z While waiting for the crane, Eyibio helped a man whose legs were trapped under a girder. Climbing death toll of Nigerian church collapse reaches 160 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Metal girders crashed and the corrugated iron roof caved in. Hospital director: 160 dead in collapsed Nigerian church 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z They say hundreds of people were inside when metal girders crashed and the corrugated iron roof caved in. Scores killed as crowded church collapses in Nigeria 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Climb the rusting staircase up to the girders of the hangar, then look down from the vertiginous heights, and it is hard not to admire the engineers who once combed the exterior of the airships. Brazil's zeppelin gravesite offers last link with the bygone age of the airship 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Videos and photographs of the site, published by state media, show rescuers working atop a large pile of twisted girders and concrete. Scaffolding Collapse at China Power Plant Kills More Than 40 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The moving company is now bracing the old synagogue for next week’s move, with steel girders underneath. A Project Mends a Gash in the Street Grid of Washington 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The trust, which is Maryland’s historic preservation agency, cited the bridge’s steel girders as a “significant example” of early 20th-century bridges designed to handle increasingly heavy traffic, according to state records. A Montgomery bridge that linked black and white neighborhoods during segregation soon will be lost to history 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Liveried staff, racially diverse, glided under industrial steel girders and the dramatically high glass roof with canapés and sparkling Trump wine. Trump not 'welcome here': opening of DC hotel met with protests 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z From the underside, cracks are clearly visible where lengthwise girders have buckled at the ends. Shut Fairview, replace 2 bridges all at once? Plan draws fire 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Later structures made of bold steel elements painted black are like answers to Franz Kline’s paintings, constructions of heavy black marks, like girders silhouetted in a heat haze. Abstract expressionism – not just macho heroes with brushes 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Neurasthenia—the 19th-century version of exhaustion—had gone out of fashion by the time these men rested their eyes on a girder 800 feet above Manhattan while constructing the RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. History of Exhaustion Reveals We Could All Use Some Sleep In July 1966, the final girder was put in place and the Tay Road Bridge was complete. Fifty years of the Tay Road Bridge - BBC News 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Officials say the girder was cracking under the weight of nearly 4,000 tons of soil and landscaping above. Florida’s capitol complex overhaul due to fix garage damage 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z An enormous party-state and the ideology and history behind it simply crashed like a tired old building, leaving heaps of broken windows and girders, piles of dust and bricks. Wildness, confusion and regret after the collapse of the Soviet Union 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The structure is currently held up by iron girders put in place in 1947 by the British governor who ruled Palestine in the Mandate era. Church project to conserve tomb of Christ gets $1.3m boost 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Today, a cage of iron girders, erected as a temporary emergency fix by the British governor in 1947, no longer can sustain the bulging edifice. Workers will soon enter the tomb of Jesus — and repair the ‘Holy Stone’ with titanium bolts 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z A cantilever is commonly defined as a beam or girder fixed at one end. Peacocks Don’t Just Show Their Feathers, They Rattle Them 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The 375-foot-long bridge includes a Pennsylvania main span, two end spans and a girder approach on the south end, according to the Historic American Engineering Record. 85-year-old bridge near Pruitt to be replaced 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z A company specializing in house raising lifted the house off its cement slab Tuesday onto two 36-foot-long steel girders using 10 hydraulic pumps. Home moved from edge of Northern California’s eroding cliff 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The rider, masked against the dust, sits on the girder and steers with the aid of two long handles. Myanmar’s new era is thwarted by the old regime 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z But at Lafayette Street, a lower elevation and wider right of way necessitated construction of a simple continuous girder span. Construction begins on historic bridge in Fayetteville 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z At the time this was the largest tubular steel girder of its type in the whole of Europe. Steel's global role in industry over the decades - BBC News 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Employees had been invited to sign that steel girder. Dog-sitting is a great way to dip your paws into temporary dog-ownership 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Then, the cantilevered, T-shape steel pylon supporting the new section folded, and massive steel girders and concrete slabs slammed onto the busy street with a sound that witnesses compared to the detonation of a bomb. Overpass Project in Kolkata ‘Made Our Lives Hell’ for Years Before Collapse 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The structure fell within hours of concrete being poured into a framework of steel girders on Thursday. Indian police are investigating possible murder charges against 10 construction company employees who have been either arrested or detained in connection with the collapse of an unfinished overpass in Kolkata that killed at least 26 people 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z News images from the scene were harrowing, with the leg and arm of one dead man protruding from under a massive steel girder. Death toll in India flyover collapse rises to 23, with 90 rescued 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Huge strengthened steel girders have since been used in a number of major UK sporting stadiums, and overseas. Steel's global role in industry over the decades - BBC News 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z If you look at it through a pair of binoculars, you can make out, flying from its highest girder, an American flag. The Invisible Catastrophe 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Sometimes the infrastructure of the United States seems to be hanging by a thread — or by a much-neglected girder. Beware the pothole or the collapsing bridge 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The planned work includes lifting large concrete girders off truck beds and then installing them. 21-mile stretch of westbound I-10 scheduled in late March 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Their carcasses become scrap metal, often recycled into girders and metal sheets for construction. Adult and underage workers risk their lives in Bangladesh's rising ship-breaking industry 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z According to SHPO’s nomination packet, the balloon hangar was made of large sheets of corrugated iron fastened to structural steel girders and support beams. Fort Sill’s historic balloon hangar gets recognition 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z In 1900, in Germany, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin built something much larger and stronger, adding a rigid aluminum framework—long internal girders, attached to flexible rings, that formed a kind of rib cage. A New Generation of Airships Is Born 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z The slabs are finagled into place atop the steel girders by crews like Mr. D’Ippolito’s. Braving the Elements Atop the New Tappan Zee Bridge 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Ashton designed several bridges over the Mississippi River and is considered a pioneer in the design of welded plate girder bridges. Grant will be used for sprucing up Ned Ashton House, park 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Exposed ductwork, polished concrete floors and steel girders—once the exclusive vernacular of urban warehouse and factory conversions—are increasingly incorporated into new construction. Industrial Design Wins Over Suburbanites 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Cranes tower above a landscape of metal girders. A Glut of Coal-Fired Plants Raises Doubts About China’s Energy Priorities 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Last year, a graphic designer named Adam Chang embarked on a mission to document every subway station sign in New York, whether embedded in mosaic or painted on steel girders. New York Today: A Royal Pain 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The country’s annual output quintupled to 800m tonnes as it forged the beams and girders it needed to build railway lines and apartment blocks. Steeled for worse 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z But he added that the concrete girders forming the floors, which are more than 50 feet long, would be “challenging to dismantle.” New York Says Farewell to American Bible Society, and Its Building 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Fish-stall owner Adrian Coakley-Greene said: "It is a real giant beast. We tied it from a girder on the roof because it was so big." Giant 50lb halibut snapped up by Swansea hotel - BBC News 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z The steel girders and rivets on the underside are probed for peeling paint and rust. Getting a very close view of our infrastructure 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z As you walk into it, you have huge steel girders with rivets visible and the walls are brick. Big Ideas Inspired by the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z With its exposed girders and lack of character, the stadium looks like the construction workers left on a break and never came back. Ancient, leaking, soulless ... a guide to America's worst stadiums 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z It also accuses the firm, an internationally prominent engineering and design company, of intentionally misrepresenting what work it had done to calculate potential pressures on the building’s interior beams and girders. Montgomery, Metro sue 3 firms over troubled Silver Spring Transit Center 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Beyond my sight to the southwest is another behemoth, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., which produces bridge girders, boilers, turbines, and machinery used in manufacturing iron and steel. National Geographic Archives: Up From Ground Zero 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z He lowered and raised the bucket to check paint, rivets, girders and concrete supports. Getting a very close view of our infrastructure 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Forty-four inmates from the nearby Palhalmai jail, in grey prison uniforms and heavy, steel-capped boots stack giant girders, labouring under the watchful scrutiny of prison guards. Hungary races to build border fence as migrants keep coming - BBC News 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Austerity, diet of our lives, girder of our loins. The Tough Love of ‘Austerity’ 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The lawsuit says the company’s “intentional misrepresentations” delayed repairs to the interior beams and girders, “causing substantial additional delays.” Montgomery, Metro sue 3 firms over troubled Silver Spring Transit Center 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Or after the required jokes that Sandler is out-of-shape, how does he have the physical strength and endurance to climb up the steel girder structure that makes for the "Donkey Kong" finale? 'Pixels' never comes into focus as a real picture 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Climb a Bridge // Work your way through hatchways and steel girders on Sydney Harbour Bridge to see the place where the famed arch was joined for the first time. The Best Travel Is Sometimes a Return Trip 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Introduction Have you ever driven across a bridge or seen a building that is under construction and noticed the large metal support girders? Popsicle Stick Trusses: What Shape Is Strongest? 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The contractor will pay the cost of recasting the girders and related fixes. New problems with phase 2 of the Silver Line 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z "They were constantly throwing, one after the other. The stones were hitting girders next to me and bouncing off as I was moving across," he said. Teenager fell from bridge 'to escape stone-throwing youths' - BBC News 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z I get up every morning to the sound of pile drivers, hammers and clashing girders at the mammoth construction site across the road. Leave London? Never – I’ll be staying, and fighting for it 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the triple girders were placed atop Piers 5 and 6, each of which was topped by a series of five pedestals of staggered heights. First Horizontal Piece Is Placed Along the New Tappan Zee Bridge 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Changes include adding a new concrete berm along the front exterior wall, exposing steel girders and installing brass-trimmed oak wood cladding in an entrance atrium wall. Furniture, crafts, accessories: They're on display at spacious Lawson-Fenning on Melrose 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Stark characterized the problem as “a hiccup” and said he doesn’t expect the girder issue to cause further delays unless it extends beyond Labor Day. New problems with phase 2 of the Silver Line 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z That is a sign of weak domestic demand, as diminished construction activity means decreased demand for steel girders and copper wiring, for example. Idle Home Builders Hold China’s Economy Back 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Smack up against the rising girders, on the far edge of the Olympic venue, sits a “favela” slum called Vila Autodromo. Rio holdouts: Brazilian slum resists eviction in shadow of Olympic Park 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Smack up against the rising girders, on the far edge of the Olympic venue, sits a "favela" slum called Vila Autodromo. Holdouts: Slum resists eviction in shadow of Olympic Park 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Instead, artists will have a chance to use some of the 480 tons of gray steel girders, rods and rivets to make public projects for parks, trails, parking lots and bus shelters. San Francisco Bay Bridge steel to become public art 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Both lanes will need to be closed for about 15 minutes each time one of the 11 girders is placed. I-95 to be closed periodically for bridge construction 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The girders hold up one end of a suspended wooden road that swoops up the hillside underneath it like a smooth, caramel-colored roller coaster. Is It Wrong to Let Children Do Extreme Sports? 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z “It would be as if the inspector’s eyeballs were 6 inches away from the girder,” Barrett-Gonzalez said. KU engineers to remove obstacles for small commercial drones 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The girders were damaged by a flatbed trailer hauling an excavator. Bird nests halt emergency repairs on 60 Freeway bridge 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The project includes the metal riding surface of the bridge, upgrading the electrical components of the control house and operations board, and painting the bascule girder. NCDOT to close 1 lane of Holmes Bridge for inspections 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Authorities say the girders weigh 80,000 pounds each and it would be too dangerous to let traffic pass under them as they are put in place. I-95 to be closed periodically for bridge construction 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z That will enable researchers to study, among other questions, whether a particular type of girder would survive an earthquake. GW opens massive science hall, aiming to rise in college research prominence 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z This meant overfilling the balloon, Grossman argues, meaning more rubbing on girders and hydrogen leakages. A curious British airship experiment 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Slowly led from the ground by wheels tracing upright girders, the gas holder would fill up. Will the UK's gas holders be missed? 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Looking at Lewis Hine’s famous views of the construction of the Empire State Building inspires a moment of panic and admiration for the man balanced on a girder high above the city sidewalks. What Images of Construction and Destruction Teach Us About Photography 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The pedestrian tunnels under the viaducts, with their walls of concrete and steel girders, are classic Chicago images that were captured in the writings of famed local writers like Stuart Dybek and newspaperman Mike Royko. Viaducts, often dark and dingy, full of hidden dangers 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z But it is a desolate landscape of burnt out factories and heaps of twisted metal girders. Will Aleppo finally fall? 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z A moment later she tripped over a girder, wrenching her knee. Sen. John McCain Remembers the Female Vets of the Gulf War 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Police in Everett, Washington, say a commercial truck lost its oversized load -- a giant girder for a crane -- as it made a turn in downtown Everett, causing a traffic blockage that lasted for hours. Giant girder tips off transport truck in Wash. 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The final major fix will be the addition of 255 strut beams to reinforce interior girders. Montgomery County seeks more money for still-unopened Silver Spring Transit Center Concrete girders will form a lid for the tunnel’s cut-and-cover portion, where four lanes of traffic will ascend toward Aurora Avenue North. Bertha burrows ahead 3 feet 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Berg’n, on Bergen Street between Franklin and Classon Avenues, derives its name from an abandoned subway stop, the sign of which is affixed to a steel girder near the bar. In Crown Heights, Small-Batch Food Scene Meets Beer Hall 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z “I’m on the Parkway, I’m in the bushes, I’m under I-95 talking to guys sleeping under the girders,” Putman said, as he trained his Marine Corps gaze on the homeless people around him. Ex-homeless Marine tries to bring fellow vets home 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z My principal memory is of a throng of cars and trucks, with huge steel girders rising overhead. How I Came to New York 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Brown mud and red girders cut painfully into open wounds. Frank Auerbach: the master painter of deepest, darkest London 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Players must steer a small creature with large eyes and a propeller hat from the ground up into the sky, through what look like large swinging gavels suspended from girders. New Game From ‘Flappy Bird’ Developer, ‘Swing Copters’ Goes Live 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z After the girder supports are installed, a two-inch layer of latex-modified concrete will be added, followed by a new series of struts to reinforce overhead concrete beams. As repairs continue, still no opening date for long-delayed Silver Spring transit center The framework for the aorta is weak in someone with Marfan’s disease, so it’s like a building whose girders are made of deficient steel. Sudden Death: What Is Marfan’s Syndrome? 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The Ontario exit onto the Kennedy will be replaced with a steel girder structure over the Kennedy and a second structure over the inbound Kennedy to the eastbound Ohio exit ramp. Major project to clog Kennedy Expressway on June weekends 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z "I woke up underneath the train and saw my arm was mangled around a girder or a wheel," he said. 'I woke up underneath the train' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Plans are underway for repairs to roads and concrete beams and girders, work expected to push the eventual opening of the facility into 2015. - The Washington Post Parsons Brinckerhoff said the added reinforcement of girders and roadways was not only unnecessary, but also inadvisable. As repairs continue, still no opening date for long-delayed Silver Spring transit center A person’s connective tissue—like the girders inside a building—is vitally important to keeping their organs together. Sudden Death: What Is Marfan’s Syndrome? 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z I was hit by a car, crushed by a falling girder, devoured by a live volcano, axed, mauled, infected with bubonic plague. Louise Erdrich: “The Big Cat.” 2014-03-24T04:00:00Z Like a child assembling Legos, Tappan Zee Constructors will link large steel girders for the bridge deck and its supports, all on land, a more efficient and safer workbench than water. Muscular West Coast Worker Is on Way to Build New Tappan Zee 2014-01-28T02:06:11Z Recent visitors to the North have seen cranes and steel girders jutting out from freshly poured concrete on the site of a new terminal building at the main airstrip that serves Pyongyang. Insight: Kim Jong Un, North Korea's master builder 2013-11-23T21:05:02Z A report into the incident that left large girders hanging inches above trains. Tunnel failure 'could have killed' 2013-09-30T05:03:48Z A sculpture made from a reclaimed World Trade Center girder that was left to rust in a Cambridgeshire farmyard will now be installed in the Olympic Park. 9/11 sculpture 'rusting in farmyard' 2013-09-09T12:05:27Z The mob moved on, torching the village’s old church, built in the 1930s, and a nearby monastery, where heat from the fire bent steel girders that once held up a roof. Attacks Rise Against Egypt’s Christians 2013-08-20T21:13:14Z Rusting girders support the ceiling and graffiti pocks the flaking brick walls. Film and music combine in 'new gig' 2013-07-04T01:29:52Z We pride ourselves in the scientific girders of modern medicine. Well: Uncertainty Is Hard for Doctors 2013-06-06T17:08:59Z Pictures from the scene showed the roof mostly burned away to reveal blackened, twisted girders. Deadly fire in China poultry plant 2013-06-03T16:02:02Z When construction of the biggest hospitality tents began just beyond the outfield wall of the Haverford baseball field in early spring, the cranes and steel girders looming over the field were a minor distraction. U.S. Open Coming to Merion, With All Its Bells and Whistles 2013-06-01T15:35:34Z Photograph: Alamy He brought us a world of miniature nuts and bolts, and diminutive plates and girders, clockwork train sets and model village landscapes, doll house furniture and fleets of toy cars, boats and planes. Frank Hornby: the man who put the world in a box 2013-05-15T12:42:45Z The girders from the World Trade Center provide the most arresting symbol of the attacks, while video displays show footage of the most horrific moments of that day. Bushs museum reflects style, personality of nation’s 43rd president 2013-04-24T16:08:00Z As the gong sounded, with the score 9-1, the Seattle crowd “stood on its feet and cheered until the iron girders of the arena roof rattled.” When Seattle was Hockeytown USA 2013-03-03T02:47:16Z Or clearing room among Hinkle's steel girders to hang one more banner in this classic gym. No. 9 Butler reaps benefits of building process 2013-01-25T20:37:10Z The lower tracks were 40 feet below street level and sprouted “a submerged forest” of steel girders. The Birth of Grand Central Terminal 2013-01-19T04:37:09Z The system, which uses two laser weapons, was also used to cut through a steel girder more than a mile away. Laser used to shoot down drones 2013-01-08T11:25:31Z So I got permission to be strapped to a girder in the roof. Sport photography: Tom Jenkins 2012-11-16T23:39:01Z The fence of railway girders and wire just gives out, stops, as if in exasperation at the immensity of its task. A battle for America's soul 2012-11-05T02:07:30Z Current patriarch of a family that has been in the bar business in downtown Detroit since the 1920s, he offered the sacrilegious opinion that Tiger Stadium, with all of its view-blocking girders, was a “dump.” Essay: In Detroit, Whiffs of Conspiracy and Victory 2012-10-20T03:35:46Z They are stacked five levels high, braced in impromptu fashion with metal girders in the event of earthquakes, and woven together with colorful Ethernet cables. Bits Blog: 300,000 Android 'Phones' Roam a Virtual Town 2012-10-03T11:00:01Z Purchased by Bethlehem Steel in 1916, the mill's steel ended up as girders in the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and in cables for the George Washington Bridge in New York City. Historic steel plant goes on the auction block 2012-08-07T22:37:47Z Dave Dawson, from Shoreham, said the travellers cut through a metal girder and moved 10 tonnes of rubble to get into the field. VIDEO: Farmer clears caravans from land 2012-06-14T19:37:11Z He hasn't been into half of them since, but the present occupiers can tell him nothing about which cellars are on the rock and when the girders are due to be repainted. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z For the ship is a combination of longitudinal, transverse, and vertical girders and beams. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z The great dome, while it is relieved from the four heavy and unsightly buttresses, is made more permanently secure by a double girder of wrought iron around the base. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z This flattening under test naturally drew attention to the defectiveness of girder stays. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Now, to see the grounds below, they had to step to the windows and to look almost vertically down, through the intricacy of girders and lattice and mammoth supporting piers. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z As a whole it is a great iron or steel girder, but its structure gives it longitudinal, transverse, and vertical magnetisation. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z Single girders, however, are not recognized as a military means of communication, so the R.E. set to work to build a pontoon bridge alongside. The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres 2012-03-17T02:01:05.397Z A B is the side elevation of a portion of one of these girders. An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design 2012-03-06T03:00:25.777Z By this arrangement, when the table is moved along i it will approach to or recede from all the drills equally. j1 and j2 are girders forming additional bearings for the framework of the table. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Unconscious that already he was black and torn and bleeding, he looked down from his girder upon the bead mat. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z “We got the wind up today, which is a pain in the butt,” he declares as the tank swings to a new spot in the rising grid of steel girders. A sky-high crane operator watches post-recession Washington come back to life 2012-02-23T18:04:00Z The 130-year-old stone cathedral stands broken and deconsecrated, with stained-glass windows shattered and the west wall propped up by girders. City Rising From Deadly N.Z. Earthquake Spells End to Low Rates 2012-02-21T19:05:41Z Each girder is supported at its ends by the plates forming the vertical sides of the fire-box. An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design 2012-03-06T03:00:25.777Z The men sat on steps or leaned against girders. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z But if it fail, as fail it may, Borne down with ruin and rout, Another than I shall rear it high, And brace the girders stout. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z Elisa Mitton, who grew up in Windsor and is now the university’s sports information officer, remembers when a squirrel ran along the ceiling girders and fell to the ice below. Windsor Arena Closes Its Doors on Hockey After 87 Years 2012-02-15T17:11:07Z The emergency dams look like a steel girder bridge, which, indeed, they are, and provide against accidents by as ingenious a piece of mechanism as the entire system affords. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z The flat crown is bolted to the girders as shown. An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design 2012-03-06T03:00:25.777Z It made rails, surgical instruments, the girders of skyscrapers, the tools which cut, bored, and filed all the other tools that made, in their turn, the material basis of our living. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z Here and there an adventurous youth crept out on the girders and braces. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z They are meant to be used decades from now, perhaps in the next century, when in their old age the concrete girders will start to sag. To Survive a Quake, New Bay Bridge Span Will Offer Least Resistance 2012-02-06T21:11:39Z Half-way across this stream the broken abutments and twisted girders of a dynamited railroad bridge showed his preparations for attack. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Observe that the girders are in contact with the crown only in the neighbourhood of the bolts. An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design 2012-03-06T03:00:25.777Z A dull glow showed from inside, and a swirl of sparks and smoke shot up and lost themselves among girders. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z Glasgow; and a lattice girder bridge over the entrance to Kingston Dock, Glasgow Harbor. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z By running cables from deadman to deadman and tightening them, workers will be able to restore the girders to their original alignment. To Survive a Quake, New Bay Bridge Span Will Offer Least Resistance 2012-02-06T21:11:39Z The concrete for the girders was a 1:21⁄2:31⁄2 mixture, the crushed stone used having all passed a mesh of 19 mm. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z The beam was connected with a pair of posts, precisely as in the actual structure, between which an additional girder was framed as a reaction base for the rams. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z He saw me leaning against a girder buttoning my shirt. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z Beams and girders were all that remained of the building Friday morning. 7 hurt, buildings damaged by Ga. storms; investigators to survey for possible tornado damage 2011-12-23T12:55:19Z With the self-supporting roof, there are no timbers whatever obstructing the mow, which means no dragging of hay around posts or over girders. Economy of the Round Dairy Barn 2011-12-18T03:00:20.633Z The tops of the girders were moulded to a slightly segmental form. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z With the extreme yielding of the lower flange angles, the angle brackets connecting girder with posts commenced to go, tearing likewise along the root, and stripping the heads from the extreme upper rivets as shown. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z I sat on a pile of pipes against a main girder, intending to smoke; the cigarette went out, and I slept a half hour. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z Amarillo—yellowish, hard, plentiful, strong; lasts well in water or ground; used for pillars and girders in native houses. Guatemala, the country of the future 2011-12-12T03:00:29.630Z The vessels are built on girder frames and fitted with double bottoms for strength and water ballast. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Bridges.—At three points the sewer was carried over arroyos on reinforced concrete girders. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z In these girders the weakness feared was in the end flange riveting and shear in end web, and caused the test recorded below. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z That had some sacks and a cushion, and was broad, with a girder for back. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z But the ants seem to have some of the methods of steel construction, too; the use of girders and things. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z Crumpled trucks were strewn along with twisted metal girders and frames of buildings. The Lede: Sights and Sounds on the Grounds of a Nuclear Disaster 2011-11-14T00:25:27Z The abutments of all bridges were protected by rubble walls in cement mortar carried up 60 cm. above the tops of the girders. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z Rolled steel girders resting on cast iron columns support the silos. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z From all parts of the blast-furnace they came, and arranged themselves about the cinder notch, and on the girders above. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z The walls consisted of red-painted girders piled up to a height of ten feet on either side of him. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z The steel-workers pace their girders twenty floors high almost in mid-season form, and their pneumatic hammers scold and chatter through the sultry hours. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z At four places the sewer passes under main railway tracks, which at these points were carried on steel girders supported on concrete abutments, the sewer being carried under the tracks in the ordinary way. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z Many signs of "giving way" and cracks in the masonry have necessitated iron girders, which detract somewhat from a fine effect. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Timber, for instance, is required for building gun-pits, so are steel girders and brick rubble and brushwood. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z Regaining the floor, he felt his way between the piled-up girders until his hand came in contact with the ladder. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z The mine was now held in position only by the triangle formed by the girder, its horizontal brace, and a two-inch teak plank placed diagonally across the metal work. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z They were designed as two parallel continuous girders with connecting top and bottom slabs. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z The nave is very fine and has the same low vaulting that is a feature in the Cathedral; its walls, too, are cracked and held together by iron girders. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The fence frame is 150 feet long, being made of 6-inch bevelled girders supported three feet from the ground by 4-inch posts set six feet apart. Paint Technology and Tests 2011-09-15T02:00:12.263Z I gave you the dimensions of the longest girders before we came to terms, and you declared to me that you could stow the whole of the consignment. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z "That was the mooring wire of one of the mines scraping along our protective girders." The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z The concrete for the girders was a 1:21⁄2:31⁄2 mixture, the sand being from the crusher and the rock gauged to pass a 19-mm. ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. 2012-01-02T03:00:24.717Z He has been gravely injured, wounded by large fragments of shell in the face and head, while his right arm has been crushed by a piece of masonry or iron girder. The Red Cross Barge 2011-09-05T02:00:20.603Z Upon this girder were placed a series of forty-two test panels supported at top and bottom with weather strips and braces. Paint Technology and Tests 2011-09-15T02:00:12.263Z With the perspiration pouring down his face, Mostyn supervised the removal of the ponderous girders from the enclosure, the Chief Mate being responsible for the storage of the material in the hold. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z The anchor-chamber had engaged on the inside of the starboard girder, and what was more, a length of loose rope had trailed aft and was almost within the sweep of one of the twin propellers. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z All the ceilings had girders and joists exposed. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z This was owing to the fact that a hundred feet above our heads there was the immense ceiling of steel plates and girders upon which the City rested. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z The framework of the fence was open, with a ledge upon the lateral girders, upon which the plates might rest, and to which the plates were secured by the use of steel buttons. Paint Technology and Tests 2011-09-15T02:00:12.263Z And "fix it up somehow" he did; for when at sundown Mostyn returned to the ship he found that the long, heavy girders were stowed. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Clambering cautiously along the horizontal strut that strengthened the curved girder, the men made a careful survey of the metal cylinder before attempting to handle it. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Here in the window, also, are beams and girders for a tower. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Fleets of ships bearing steel girders and so forth arrived from America, together with a hundred highly trained engineers, all of them Americans. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z That gentleman was already in England, upholding the honour of New South Wales by hammering a rivet in a girder and walking three miles along a sewer. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Three feet above his head a huge girder was chattering and quivering. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z It was found that one of the fore-and-aft girders had been shattered for a length of nearly fifteen feet, and some of the connecting braces and struts had been twisted and buckled. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images Hewn from girders, concrete and glass, but delivered with love and patience, Brighton's new house has become a home. Brighton rock into new stadium but Tottenham come out on top 2011-07-30T19:21:11Z Only that they're now all linked together at the top by the most intricate series of girders, on the suspension principle, I suppose. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z The corrugated iron roof—thousands of square feet of it—was lying tumbled and torn upon a tangle of fallen steel girders. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z The fifty-ton girder would crush and pulp him to a jelly. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z More than that, the shattered girder is an encumbrance. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z And just as she said this the hotel was jarred suddenly, throughout its every beam and girder! Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z Every detail of the lower parts was clear and distinct as an architectural drawing, the intricate lattice-work of enormous cantilevers and girders seemed etched on the inside of a great opal bowl. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z A pair of handcuffs dangle from a metal girder on the blacked ceiling: A grim reminder of the torture that once went on here. House of horrors 2011-07-04T06:56:54Z To his agitated mind it seemed as if the girders were already slipping bodily upon him. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z There's less than twenty-four feet between the protection girder and the surface. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Yet she got near enough to see the outside of the wrecked saloon, the twisted girders supporting the upper deck, the jagged breach in the stern where the iron plate had gone through. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z The round, smooth trunk, expanding each year from beneath girders of loosening bark, lifted a weight of inaccessible white blossoms to the sky. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z Between were several planks and spars lashed to the girders. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z The detonator caps sent a pulse of energy through the bars of C4 explosive until they ignited with a force powerful enough to snap steel girders. The Triple Agent 2011-06-19T14:00:00Z With a slight, almost imperceptible shock, one of the protective girders encircling the submarine engaged the mooring chain of the hulk. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z It is made of tarpaulin, attached to slats which slide between the two main girders, and is raised or lowered by halliards, which belay to cleats on the north rail of the gallery. Photographs of Nebul? and Clusters Made with the Crossley Reflector 2011-06-21T02:00:27.500Z A horse tied to a girder in the barn was found, uninjured, sixty feet outside of the limits of the building, with the girder lying across him, and the strap still tied to it. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Side by side with them, and resting on the booms or transverse steel girders, were some larger boats which could only be hoisted out by means of derricks. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Gabriel secured the rope to an iron girder of the skylight, and crawling on the roof dropped it cautiously over the gable. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z The demand for iron ore depends on down-to-earth things, such as how many steel girders Chinese builders are using. Mining: The wacky world of gold 2011-06-02T11:04:01Z The dome itself, 38 feet 9 inches in diameter, is made of sheet-iron plates riveted to iron girders. Photographs of Nebul? and Clusters Made with the Crossley Reflector 2011-06-21T02:00:27.500Z And no iron girder to hold it up—merely a little brick wall"—he again referred to the paper on his knee—"three feet high and three bricks thick. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z In the distance, a sculpture of an osprey perches serenely atop steel girders salvaged from the World Trade Center. | Greenport, N.Y.: And Now, Fresh Clams and Salty Air 2011-05-26T20:40:41Z He had recovered the rope again, and crawling to the cupola, was about to fasten the line to the iron girder when something slowly rose above the level of the roof beyond him. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z It peeled open the high school gym, flinging a roof girder hundreds of yards across Iowa Street. Torn Asunder: How the Deadliest Twister in Decades Ripped Through Joplin, Mo. 2011-05-26T12:20:00Z The High Line’s support girders and eight-inch concrete slab will be the roof. Near the High Line, a Parking Lot With High Ambition 2011-05-25T04:00:30Z Fust, you want the sills, then the posts, then the girders, then the plates, an finally the rafters. Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia 2011-05-22T02:00:13.943Z A girder, or something, had fallen across the track. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z But see here," Tubby insisted, "how are they going to help us if that same train can't cross on the steel girders of the burned bridge? The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico 2011-05-02T02:00:18.793Z Shigeru's wife found bottles of shampoo in the wreckage of her former upstairs, and the Sano family sat amid the great girders and cranes, soaking for the first time in weeks. Returning to Life in Kamaishi 2011-04-21T21:00:19Z Upon these last ends is placed a steel girder upon which the wall is built. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z |
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