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I don’t think there’s a better example in history where all the various factors of a technical problem converged into a singular solution in this way. I love cable-stayed bridges. Happy Valentine's Day!
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See-through sewer system... Say that five times fast.
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Doing it this way - by making the plumbing junctions into access points - just provides a lot of flexibility while also standardizing the system so anyone involved - whether it's a contractor building one or a crew doing maintenance - knows what to expect.
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Do the Dutch really have the rest of the world outclassed when it comes to waterworks?
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On-location to document this major construction project
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Keeping the famous San Antonio River Walk working by replacing some huge floodgates. It's a pretty interesting challenge to replace them without draining the whole river in the process.
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Bridges for animals
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Errata: Several people have pointed out crossings that are larger than the Wallis Annenberg bridge will be. I should have said "largest of its kind," meaning true bridges.
The reasons we’re willing to invest so much into wildlife crossings aren’t as obvious as you might think, and there are some really interesting technical challenges when you’re designing infrastructure for animals.
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Some of the engineering behind the humblest structural detail
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Baseplates are the structural shoreline of the built environment: where superstructure meets substructure. And even understanding just a little bit of the engineering behind them can tell you a lot of interesting things about the structures you see in your everyday life.
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Following the dollars from your bill through the grid
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The grid is not only mechanically and electrically complicated; it’s financially complicated, too. We don’t really participate in all that complexity - we just pay our bill at the end of every month. But it does affect us in big ways, so I think it’s important at least to understand the basics.
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A pretty creative way to cool lots of water...
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In a world full of straight lines and right angles, I love that every once in a while, it just makes good engineering sense to use curvy shapes to accomplish a really important job.
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By popular request, we combined the Practical Construction series into a single video. This was originally released in 2023 in a series of 5 episodes as an experiment in long-duration, on-location production. It was a lot of work, but a ton of fun, and I'm really proud of the result. I hope you enjoy it!
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An overview of the Taum Sauk pumped storage facility, the failure of its upper reservoir in 2005, and the rebuilding process.
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