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Mammoth Kite used to Raise 6,900-pound Obelisk Researchers used a mammoth kite to set a 6,900-pound obelisk upright, a feat they say demonstrates that ancient Egyptians may have harnessed the wind to move even the most massive of stones. SF Gate Sat, 23 Jun 2001 Satellites Measure Bulging Earth to Map Water Resources Scientists using satellite data have been able to measure bulges on the land surface and believe they can use the technique to study the location and size of aquifers in remote regions. EurekAlert Thu, 14 Jun 2001 Action Urged to Halt Desert Sands The United Nations has warned that urgent political action is required to stop increasing areas of the world turning into desert. BBC News Sun, 17 Jun 2001 Achieving the "Impossible Restoration" The Huddersfield Narrow Canal, derelict for 57 years and once dubbed “the impossible restoration”, reopened on Tuesday 1 May almost 200 years after it was first built to carry boats and trade from one side of the Pennines to the other. NCE Plus Mon, 18 Jun 2001 Flooding, Landslides Kill 39 in Ecuador Ecuador's Amazon region has been hit hard by 10 days of heavy rains that have filled rivers to overflowing and set off deadly landslides. Environment News service Thu, 14 Jun 2001 Natural Rubber Used As Earthquake Buffer In 1994, University Hospital in California was shaken by a tremor which caused other buildings in the area to collapse. The hospital, which operated normally the day after the tremor, survived because of 149 rubber bearings which absorbed the shock. Sunday Observer Sun, 17 Jun 2001 Horizontal Directional Drilling Brings Nile Water to Desert Farmers Drilling through quicksand to irrigate land reclaimed from the Egyptian sands. e-worldconstruction.com Wed, 13 Jun 2001 |
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H.E. Services Move To New Durham Depot Plant Hirer of the Year 2000 and one of the most aggressive Hire Companies in the UK, have recently opened a substantial facility just outside Durham, in the North East of England Geopages Jun 2001 Aarsleff Lays Foundation for Sweden's Tallest Housing Unit Malmö soon gets a new, unique landmark called the 'Turning Torso'. A 187-m tall building which has 54 floors with flats. The construction works commence this summer and Aarsleff executes cofferdam and earthworks www.aarsleff.com Mon, 25 Jun 2001 |
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New Offsite Tool Detects When Concrete Has Reached Proper Hardness Pennsylvania State University engineers have developed a “smart” concrete maturity meter to estimate and to signal by phone when newly-poured concrete has reached proper hardness or strength, as determined by its application. CE News Jun 2001 A Better Way to Treat Mercury Waste A new technology chemically stabilises and solidifies liquid elemental mercury, a by product of gold mining, to safely isolate the material from the environment. E4engineering.com Fri, 1 Jun 2001 AGS File Manager New standalone system to create, edit and check AGS format data files Geopages Fri, 22 Jun 2001 A Very Fine Mud Cleaner from PSD The increasing use of small HDD rigs and microtunnelling machines means that there is a growing market for smaller mud cleaning machines such as PSD's MC80. EurekAlert Mon, 23 Apr 2001 SIMBAT Aims to Make a Big Impact A new, British system for dynamic load testing of piles has just been launched and made available for sale by Testconsult Ltd. The technique, known as SIMBAT, utilises state of the art electronics and computer processing software to predict the static behaviour of piles from dynamic measurements. www.testconsult.co.uk Jun 2001 |
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Groundwater Hydrology Complete Engineers Manual as used by U.S. army Corps of Engineers. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this file. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
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