A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Engineering + ingenuity = economical oil Wharf
Rebuilding of Hog Island wharf in Philadelphia, Pa; design called for four permanent berths or breasting platforms each 580 ft long, against which tankers are to be moored; formwork for casting pile caps was built directly over piles to be incorporated; makes use of pile bents to be removed later, and was lowered at low water to provide dry working area without cofferdams.
Engineering + ingenuity = economical oil Wharf
Rebuilding of Hog Island wharf in Philadelphia, Pa; design called for four permanent berths or breasting platforms each 580 ft long, against which tankers are to be moored; formwork for casting pile caps was built directly over piles to be incorporated; makes use of pile bents to be removed later, and was lowered at low water to provide dry working area without cofferdams.
Engineering + ingenuity = economical oil Wharf
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 158
1957
Article (Journal)
English
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