Today Waiward Steel Fabricators were awarded 2 road bridges across the Anthony Henday Highway, which runs around the south of Edmonton. M&D Drafting will take care of detailing while WSF is engineering the connections. The Lessard and Callingwood community bridges are not that difficult; large steel main girders, connected with diaphragm beams (sort of "Andreas kruizen"), covered with a concrete slab to accomodate 4 or 6 lanes and at both sides a walk/cycle way. Unfortunately they are skewed and curved, which makes it pretty interesting for drafting and even more to the shop where they only have + or - 6 mm play, a quarter of an inch that is. The bottom line: we are getting busy again, all the signs point that way. Hopefully we enter the the winter fully loaded. Which reminds me; if you ever order a fully loaded baked potato, in a restaurant over here (along with a very large steak), you will get a big unskinned baked potato sliced open and filled with butter, cream cheese and chives topped with bacon crumble. Tastes pretty damn good, I must say.
Delphi Ramblings from Rolly View, Alberta, Canada
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Lessard and Callingwood Bridges
Today Waiward Steel Fabricators were awarded 2 road bridges across the Anthony Henday Highway, which runs around the south of Edmonton. M&D Drafting will take care of detailing while WSF is engineering the connections. The Lessard and Callingwood community bridges are not that difficult; large steel main girders, connected with diaphragm beams (sort of "Andreas kruizen"), covered with a concrete slab to accomodate 4 or 6 lanes and at both sides a walk/cycle way. Unfortunately they are skewed and curved, which makes it pretty interesting for drafting and even more to the shop where they only have + or - 6 mm play, a quarter of an inch that is. The bottom line: we are getting busy again, all the signs point that way. Hopefully we enter the the winter fully loaded. Which reminds me; if you ever order a fully loaded baked potato, in a restaurant over here (along with a very large steak), you will get a big unskinned baked potato sliced open and filled with butter, cream cheese and chives topped with bacon crumble. Tastes pretty damn good, I must say.
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And you may legally make a mess of your potato as you mash and mix it up.
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