Video of Car Swallowed by Sinkhole Related to Tunneling in Cairo, Egypt
Conferences
End of Geo-Frontiers 2011 Conference
The Geo-Frontiers conference concluded last week, and according to their website, they had a record setting 1,900+ attendees! There are Day 2 and Day 3 videos from Magnus Media Group that have some nice interviews […]
Geologic Hazards
Hayward Baker working on sinkhole problem at Corvette Museum
I heard that Hayward Baker was working on the Corvette Museum sinkhole at GeoCongress, but I finally got official confirmation via this Civil Engineering Magazine article. It’s a great article if you are interested in […]
Project Related
Video Tour of NY Subway Mega-Projects
The New York MTA is in the midst of a “golden era” of tunneling for the New York subway. Three separate mega-projects are currently underway totaling some $15 Billion: The Second Avenue Subway, The East Side Access Project (which features the new Grand Central Terminal), and The Number 7 Subway Line Extension Project. The short video below was published by the NY Post and included in an AP Article. It is tantalizingly short, but gives a great perspective on what the underground construction project at Grand Central looks like and a sense of the scale…the amazing huge caverns being constructed. The article says that from underneath Grand Central Terminal alone, the construction crews have removed enough material to cover Central Park almost a foot deep!
[Source: KOMO News (Seattle) via ASCE SmartBrief. Image: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer via KOMOnews.com]
Click through for the video.