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Its design funding and construction was approved in 1988, and its first floodgate was tested in 1990. In 1993, the Army Corps of Engineers awarded its first construction contract, reinforcing a levee. The entire project was then estimated at $107 million. On Columbus Day in 1993, politicians celebrated the breaking ground of the floodwall ...
The Columbus Civic Center Historic District is a historic district comprising most of the civic center. It includes Central High School (NRHP-listed, 1924), Columbus City Hall (built 1928), the former Central Police Station (1930), the Ohio Judicial Center (NRHP-listed, 1933), and the Joseph P. Kinneary United States Courthouse (NRHP-listed, 1934). [3]
Asphalt and sandbag revetment with a geotextile filter. A revetment in stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering is a facing of impact-resistant material (such as stone, concrete, sandbags, or wooden piles) applied to a bank or wall in order to absorb the energy of incoming water and protect it from erosion.
The High and Gay Streets Historic District is a historic district in Downtown Columbus, Ohio.The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. [1]The district includes 18 buildings, including three that are non-contributing, and one contributing building that has since been demolished.
A retaining wall is designed to hold in place a mass of earth or the like, such as the edge of a terrace or excavation. The structure is constructed to resist the lateral pressure of soil when there is a desired change in ground elevation that exceeds the angle of repose of the soil.
Bryant Gingerich quit his 9-to-5 as a mechanical engineer to build picturesque short-term rentals in the Ohio wilderness. Now they’re booked out a year in advance, raking in over $700,000 yearly
Comparison of a ha-ha (top) and a regular wall (bottom). Both walls prevent access, but one does not block the view looking outward. A ha-ha (French: hâ-hâ [a a] ⓘ or saut de loup [so dÉ™ lu] ⓘ), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving ...
The building features numerous midcentury modern materials: a red granite tower and storefront base, Indiana limestone curtain walls, and three decorative aluminum fins. [5] The fins originally stretched parallel to each other from the first story to the sixth, in 5-foot sections, though most of the sections were removed in 2014. [ 4 ]