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A Brief History of the Middle Road Bridge
The Middle Road Bridge, constructed in 1909 on present-day Sherway Drive to span Etobicoke Creek between Toronto and Mississauga, was recognized as a CSCE Civil Engineering Historic Site in 2009. The official CSCE plaque for this structure will be unveiled at the 2021 Annual Conference and subsequently installed on site. The Toronto firm Barber & Young designed the bridge, the first reinforced-concrete tied-arch-truss (or “rainbow”) bridge built in North America. The paper describes some of the design and construction innovations in the structure and the professional lives of James Franklin Barber (1875–1945) and Clarence Richard Young (1869–1964), who left the partnership in 1911 to become Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto and, subsequently, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering from 1941 to 1949.
A Brief History of the Middle Road Bridge
The Middle Road Bridge, constructed in 1909 on present-day Sherway Drive to span Etobicoke Creek between Toronto and Mississauga, was recognized as a CSCE Civil Engineering Historic Site in 2009. The official CSCE plaque for this structure will be unveiled at the 2021 Annual Conference and subsequently installed on site. The Toronto firm Barber & Young designed the bridge, the first reinforced-concrete tied-arch-truss (or “rainbow”) bridge built in North America. The paper describes some of the design and construction innovations in the structure and the professional lives of James Franklin Barber (1875–1945) and Clarence Richard Young (1869–1964), who left the partnership in 1911 to become Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto and, subsequently, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering from 1941 to 1949.
A Brief History of the Middle Road Bridge
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Walbridge, Scott (editor) / Nik-Bakht, Mazdak (editor) / Ng, Kelvin Tsun Wai (editor) / Shome, Manas (editor) / Alam, M. Shahria (editor) / el Damatty, Ashraf (editor) / Lovegrove, Gordon (editor) / Bartlett, F. Michael (author)
Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference ; 2021
Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2021 ; Chapter: 4 ; 37-47
2022-06-01
11 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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