Hannah Gott snapped this intriguing photo—which she calls “Lunchtime on the Jump System”—at the ongoing Houston Ship Channel Bridge project in Channelview, Texas.

Considering that Richard “Dick” McLane “fell into engineering,” it seems appropriate that he ends up digging deeply into a project both literally and figuratively.

Tunneling through an urban environment like that of Los Angeles is complex enough. Add to that a medley of poor soils (including tar pits); a variety of dangerous gases; and two seismic faults and it becomes a task that until not so long ago was impossible.

The Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge project in Portland would replace a busy river crossing completed nearly 100 years ago.

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