Something the for Civil Engineers

[tris]

Pretty cool machine this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbaD2-2Ktwc

[v7john]

Damn clever those Chinese.

[Dharma Bum]

Similar to the machine they used years ago constructing the bridges in Glenwood Canyon in Colorado.  Don't remember where the machine was built, Sweden maybe?  I'm pretty sure it wasn't Chinese.

[Captainjos]

These aerial construction machines are called launching girders, they can either get the completed spans themselves and transport it to the span or the individual segments will be hoisted up into the girder and assembled and tensioned there. Amazing machines, I am a civil engineer, on my last project (construction of the Silver Metro Line in the Washington DC area), we had 3 launching girders working at the same time. One span a day. The company fabricating these girders, and they do this world wide, is Deal in Italy.
Jos

[RinkRat II]

 Similar machine to build the Spagetti Bowl overpasses in Las Vegas, those were German built Leibherr I seem to recall. Quite the sight to see.
     

      Paul B

[ITSec]

Similar machine to build the Spagetti Bowl overpasses in Las Vegas, those were German built Leibherr I seem to recall. Quite the sight to see.
     

      Paul B

We're putting up a bunch more of them over the next few years...

And BTW, isn't 'civil engineer' a contradiction in terms? 

[oldbike54]

We're putting up a bunch more of them over the next few years...

And BTW, isn't 'civil engineer' a contradiction in terms? 

 Was waiting for that 

 Dusty

[ITSec]

Was waiting for that 

 Dusty

I know all the engineer jokes - my grandfather was a founder and VP of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He always wanted me to be one too, but I fought him off on that issue.

Of course, now I've spent over 30 years in computer work, so I guess I might as well be called an engineer anyway.

"It used to be I could not spell engineer - now I are one!"

[charlie b]

No, it's njanear.  Gotta lurns to spel if u wants to be 1.

Me?  I prefer rocket scientist, but, lasers are so much more fun.

[charlie b]

PS  Civil Engineers make targets.

[Jurgen]

The civil engineers play with those things, the mechanical engineers design them.  BTW, not to take anything away from the Chinese, but I watched a bridge being built that way in Wuppertal, Germany in 1985 using, I seem to remember, a German machine.  Only that bridge was about 500' high, not 30'.  Jürgen

[Tom]

Guys in Honolulu are still doing "old school".  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpCRO4mXZ_o

[tris]

It's good to see the good ole sabre rattling between the various engineering fields coming to the fore 

Don't get me started on the Naval Architects 

[charlie b]

Architects vs engineers....now that's a fight waiting to happen  :D

[cloudbase]

Don't get me started on the Naval Architects 

I'm no fan of naval architects, either, but you gotta figure they design stuff so that people like the folks who work at Bender or Avondale can actually put them together.

[sbaker]

Hi have a grey with black stripes ball-cap... does that qualify me as an engineer too???