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caisson

A casing or cylinder used to sink shafts into wet or unstable ground,or a watertight structure within which construction is conducted under water. Often used in bridge building;sometimes used in commercial construction.

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2 Cables attached to the platforms and a pulling machine slowly roll the ship to an upright position helped by the weight of the caissons

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Hafren claims the caissons could be built in Port Talbot, that the turbines could be assembled in Wales and Bristol, and the nine-year building project could result in 20,000 direct jobs.

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The company will work for Fort Clarence-based Subsea 7 constructing support clamps for work on DONG Energy's SIRI Caisson Support Project in the North Sea.

New contract for Wilton Engineering

Le poids de l'edifice repose sur 421 caissons de beton qui s'enfoncent jusqu'au till consolide ou jusqu'au socle.

Geology of the Parliament Buildings 5: Geology of the Manitoba Legislative Building

Electrical and telephone lines wouldn't allow a crane to reach over the house, so caissons had to be constructed on site.

Air to awe: no one else wanted to take on this extreme slope--except one adventurous California builder

His experience ranged from test boring inspector to design of 100-foot deep and 150-foot diameter sinking caissons.

In memorial

The second is to a method for using prefabricated semicircular reinforced concrete caissons to construct offshore dikes or structures on soft soil.

Applications of two costal pretection structure construction methods

A sculpted ceiling of glossy cherrywood caissons, suspended from the timber roof structure like some kind of geological formation, is calculated to enhance acoustic performance.

Urban orchestration: formally imaginative and technically assured, Renzo Piano's s concert hall complex in Rome is also a civic place in the city's best tradition

When the latter method is preferred (and it usually is), the caissons must be made of porous concrete.

How to dig a well

Later they could stay underwater for extended periods in caissons or diving suits, but only at the cost of having the air they breathed compressed to the pressure of the surrounding water.

Bathyspheres

Over hill, over dale, As we hit the dusty trail, And the caissons go rolling along.