Civil Engineering Knowledge Tree

3 Responses to Civil Engineering Knowledge Tree

1. eocanha says:

   December 24, 2007 at 19:52

   That image makes me remember another one I saw this summer at London. It’s related to Civil Engineering in some way. The picture shows a skyscraper being demolished.

   

   Would you demolish a skyscraper upside down? No. Upper floors would collapse lower ones. The english way is by “eating” lower floors, and going up. The building seems a mushroom this way, isn’t it?
2. tsao says:

   December 25, 2007 at 17:01

   Uhm… what a interesting photo. But I’m not sure that’s the “English way to demolish” . I suspect the constructive process of that building began with a concrete shaft (we can see it on the demolished part). Then they built a concrete grid in the top, and then, they hanged from it the steele floors with steel pillars upside down. So the demolishing process is just the other way round. I saw the same process in the Barcelona’92 Press Building at Zaragoza.
3. Juanma says:

   January 19, 2008 at 16:13

   Great photo!! And great comments!!
   Great Mr. Tsao!!