Since 1987, MCEER, formerly the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) and the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research ( NCEER), has produced over 600 ...

September 12, 2007 7 Engineering Wonders: Geotechnical — A firm foundation for the new Narrows Bridge ...

Since 1987, MCEER, formerly the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) and the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research ( NCEER), has produced over 600 ...

FERRISBURGH, Vt. — For more than two centuries, the waters of Lake Champlain have hidden the remains of a marvel of 18th century engineering -- a bridge built by 2,500 sick and hungry ...

The caisson is often built elsewhere, and then transported to the construction site. Box caissons, with their open top and closed bottom, are sometimes used for bridges over oceans.

On a project decades in the making, crews will soon begin demolishing a defunct nuclear-reactor caisson in Eureka, Calif., at a site located only a few feet from the Pacific Ocean.

Additional perimeter protection has been installed at a University of Pittsburgh construction project in Oakland, Pa., after a May 3 incident involving a steel foundation caisson that rolled down ...

A new, R98-million floating caisson is to be fabricated for the Sturrock Dry Dock in the Port of Cape Town, which will enable one of the biggest dry dock facilities in the Southern Hemisphere to ...