big stuff

[SuitsBlue]

get the french 'needle' bridge on.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Apparently there's a bigger oil platform (according to the Guiness records anyway.)

The Troll Offshore Gas Platform, located off Norway in the North Sea, is the heaviest man made mobile object ever made, with a dry weight of the gravity base structure at 656,000 tonnes. Standing 369m tall, it was made from 245,000m3 of concrete, (the equivalent to 215,000 foundations for ordinary homes) and 100,000 tonnes of steel (approximately 15 Eiffel towers).

Owned by Shell Oil, the platform was constructed by Norwegian Contractors from July 1991 at a cost of NOK4,150million.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

get the french 'needle' bridge on.

The Millau viaduct you mean?

Amazing stuff.

 

[SuitsBlue]

that is the nuts

french built, on time, on budget - british design.

what a lesson.

 

[fozzy]

yeah thats the one suits/bruce it was ace watching how they did it on tv!!

 

[fozzy]

im to slow!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Or you've got this big bugger that actually connects Sweden and Denmark.

 

[SuitsBlue]

which was your original pic bruce?

 

[SuitsBlue]

jesus this is big... and dodgy

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Whilst pretty controversial (to say the least), as an engineering project the Three Gorges Dam is pretty impressive.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

which was your original pic bruce?

The first bridge I posted was the one in France. The second was the Oresund bridge that connects Copenhagen in Denmark to Malmo in Sweden.

 

[SuitsBlue]

not sure on the controversy, is it the one where the government stepped in and said to the inhabitants of the valley/gorge - that its time to pack up and get moving?

i caught a bbc2 documentary where ancient roman villas were excavated and priceless mosaics were uncovered at many sites - the use of the dam meant the loss of more excavating.

what price progress.

 

[SuitsBlue]

The first bridge I posted was the one in France. The second was the Oresund bridge that connects Copenhagen in Denmark to Malmo in Sweden.

the pic bigger than the ordinary sizes of pic posted so far.

the needle bridge appears much straighter, your original pic showed a curved bridge with fewer towers rising above the level of the road.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/china.50/asian.superpower/three.gorges/ provides a decent summary of the construction.

Basically some 1 million people will have to be relocated when the valley is flooded.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

the pic bigger than the ordinary sizes of pic posted so far.

the needle bridge appears much straighter, your original pic showed a curved bridge with fewer towers rising above the level of the road.

Sorry, yeah that was the same bridge but the size of the pic stretched the screen so I went for a more suitable one instead.