San Francisco – Rebuilding After the 1906 Earthquake
On the morning of April 18th 1906, San Francisco was struck with violent tremors coming from the San Andreas Fault. The resulting quake ranked a 7.8 magnitude on the Richter scale, it was a quake so massive that it was recorded as far away as Cape Town, South Africa...
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Filled to the Brim – Boston Harbor
Just like bees building a new hive, human beings are no strangers to changing their environment through building up new structures, as one of the oldest cities in the US, Boston is one of the best examples of this concept. With its constantly shifting landscape, nary...
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Skyline of Skylines
One wonders if the Dutch soldiers manning the walls of Fort Amsterdam could have ever imagined the city that would grow from the wild river and terrain that surrounded them in 1624, I’m sure they didn’t have any clue that in just 30 years the colony containing the...
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What Does The Permian Basin & England Have In Common?
Among the many roadside attractions that Texas has to offer, one might not expect to find a replica of Stonehenge, the famous English stone structure thought to be everything from a burial site to a celestial calendar. Nestled on the campus of the University of Texas...
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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel & The First Underwater Tunnel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and the World’s First Underwater Tunnel The Thames Tunnel was the Big Dig of its day, what was originally supposed to be a project of only a few months took over 40 years to complete, with numerous engineering problems and even a few deaths...
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The Jack Rabbit King of Odessa, Texas.
As far as jackrabbits go, eight feet is pretty big to say the least. Don’t worry though, I’m not talking about some gargantuan mutant from the deepest, farthest reaches of cult cinema, I’m actually talking about Jack Ben Rabbit, the giant jack rabbit sculpture of...
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Civil Engineers In History: Gustave Eiffel
Gustave Eiffel: A Towering Engineering Talent Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was born Alexandre Gustave Bonickhausen dit Eiffel on December 15th, 1832 to a family of German immigrants. His family adopted the name of Eiffel for the Eifel Mountains in the region of Germany...
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Civil Engineers In History: George Meade
Born in Cadiz, Spain in 1815 into the family of US Naval Agent Richard Worsam Meade and Margaret Coats Butler, George Meade entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1831 at the age of 16, upon graduating he served in the 3rd U.S. Artillery in...
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Midland, TX: History Makes A Name
Established in June of 1881, just thirty six years after Texas was granted statehood and only seventeen years before the Spanish American War, Midland was originally known as the Midway Station on the Texas and Pacific Railway.
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Midland, TX|Press Release
Embracing Cloud Technology Wins Civil Engineering Firm Three Clients Within First Month Of Opening.
Midland, TX September 15, 2015 – Within one month of opening their doors, Skyline Civil Group LLC has already attracted three developers to their pool of clients. Patrons have stated the cost savings generated from Skyline’s embracing of “the cloud” and other digital technology have provided major discount opportunities for their construction and civil projects.
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