Items Tagged with 'ENR 150th Anniversary'

The restoration of the Statue of Liberty, seen on this 1984 cover, presented numerous challenges.

This 1984 cover depicts the world’s first full-scale tension leg platform.

The unusual home seen on this 1966 cover showcases then-contemporary innovations in structural concrete, as seen in this clamshell design.

This 1952 cover depicts two enormous concrete caissons sitting in a natural drydock in Stony Point, N.Y.

This 1960 cover depicts a huge nylon bag lifting a 384-ft-dia steel geodesic dome, the largest such pneumatic erection operation up to that time.

This 1985 cover image depicts the largest iron ore mine in the world, Carajas, in Para State in Brazil, developed by CVRD, now known as Vale.

This 1955 cover depicts a supersonic wind tunnel being built at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory in Mountain View, Calif.

This 1954 image depicts the excavation of an 8,000-ft-long channel to carry water downstream from the Roanoke Rapids Dam powerhouse in North Carolina.

This October 1927 cover feature is a comprehensive account of road and highway planning and construction by the Allegheny County Dept. of Public Works in Pennsylvania, and it praised the department’s technical and financial setup for road improvement to be “remarkable.”

The world’s most sophisticated and complex flood barrier system today protects southwest Holland. It was developed in response to a catastrophe.<