How the heck do you build a brick drainage pipe? Does it start with a temporary form like you do with an arch?
How the heck do you build a brick drainage pipe? Does it start with a temporary form like you do with an arch?
That would be my guess. However it's done, that was the state of the art for a couple of thousand years. If you looked some existing sewers in Paris or Rome, they look exactly like that. It's only been within the past 50-75 that reinforced concrete became the norm.
They probably used the same engineering as the Romans when they built large unsupported arches: Forms to hold up the arch until the final keystone (#1 below; the stone/brick at the very top) is set into place, then the weight of the arches actually converge on that one point and hold everything up.
I asked this once but don't recall the answer if there was one, is this an old creek that was piped and covered?
Doug has an old map with the original river course on his blog
I probably just need to find an old topographical map. Many of the streams around OKC were piped and buried. I would like to see them be daylighted when new construction takes place (too late for this development). If I recall correctly, I think I once counted 17 tributaries to the North Canadian River in OKC where this was done.
How close is this project to (a) going vertical and (b) reopening Sheridan? Will the sidewalks be built with a Project 180 model?
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Not Project 180 design but similar. Whole street in that area will be completely re-worked.
They are just now starting on the Steelyard. Everything to date has been utilities and street.
This is going to take a while.
The intersection at Sheridan and Joe Carter is wrapping up (from https://twitter.com/dtOKCbuilds):
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I had a suspicion that you ran that account.
Those crosswalk sidewalks look very walkable & ADA compliant!
Sheridan / Joe Carter intersection now open (from https://twitter.com/OkcPics):
So nice to see. I was getting kinda sick of that intersection being closed.
Drove through a couple of times today. I suspect it will get a more permanent resurfacing of some sort after construction is finished or near to. Joe Carter is still a massive hole; there are just a couple of open lanes of Sheridan right now.
Boy, is this area going to change fast in the next year or so!
Looking forward to the "timehop" pictures this time next year.
over/under on that crosswalk paint wearing off? 90 days?
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