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The book is aimed at beginners, with each chapter outlining a single convention, including takeout doubles, negative doubles, and cuebid raises. [1] All chapters are followed by a quiz. Since its publication, the book has sold over 300,000 copies, [ 2 ] and won the American Bridge Teachers' Association Book of the Year (Student) award. [ 3 ]
The Fehmarn Sound Tunnel is a planned tunnel between the German mainland and the island of Fehmarn, which is projected to be built by 2028, to augment and relieve the Fehmarn Sound Bridge. It is projected to cost €718 million. [ 1 ]
Bridges can be placed under the strings in the center of two of the strings, allowing even more notes, on either side of the bridge. The lowest note string has been designed to make a "sustained boom" through the use of a flap, over a hole in the bamboo tubing; the flap vibrates with the string and "this sound/energy is transmitted through the ...
Each episode is an educational look of varying depth into the construction, operation, and staffing of various structures or construction projects, but not ordinary construction products. Generally containing interviews with designers and project managers , it presents the problems of construction and the methodology or techniques used to ...
Underslung (lower-beam) launching gantry used for Skyline guideway construction (2015). A launching gantry (also called bridge building crane, and bridge-building machine) is a special-purpose mobile gantry crane used in bridge construction, specifically segmental bridges that use precast box girder bridge segments or precast girders in highway and high-speed rail bridge construction projects.
The Mid-Currituck Bridge is a proposed 7-mile (11 km) long two-lane toll bridge that will span across Currituck Sound, connecting US 158 and NC 12.Its purpose is to alleviate summer traffic congestion and to improve both emergency response and evacuation time.
'Unlocking Our Sound Heritage' (UOSH) is a UK-wide project that aims to preserve, digitise and provide public access to a large part of the nation's sound heritage. The UOSH project forms part of the core programme 'Save Our Sounds' led by the British Library and involving a consortium of ten regional and national archival institutions.
The project began in 2018 after the design phase was completed, and coincided with a retrofitting for the Glendale-Hyperion Complex of Bridges Project. [2] The 430 ft (130 m) long bridge was completed in January 2020 at a cost of $4 million, and is named after the Red Car trolleys that once used the bridge's route. [ 3 ]