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Flyover: Types, Design, and Advantages

The Constructor

A flyover is a high-level road bridge that crosses over another railroad or highway intersection or an existing road. A road, highway, or railroad may be required for the passage. The post Flyover: Types, Design, and Advantages appeared first on The Constructor. It is also called an “overpass.” A bridge […].

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Underground Railroad Visitor Center tells story of oppression, then freedom

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The $21 million, 15,000-sf Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Church Creek, Md., The building’s design expresses the importance of traveling northward to escape the circumstances of slavery through an integrated site, building, and exhibit design.

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$12B Texas bullet train construction could start this year

Construction Dive

Texas Central Partners is pressing on with the Dallas-to-Houston line and will appeal a court ruling that denied it railroad designation and land rights.

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Geotechnical Modeling Software Advances Design Work on HS2 Rail Project

ENR Construction

A team of New Zealand-based software designers that brought digital 3D modeling to engineering geotechnics less than two years has recently launched an upgrade to their software, which is now being used on some major projects, including the U.K.’s ’s multibillion dollar London-Birmingham high speed railroad (HS2).

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California bullet train authority approves $1.6B RFP

Construction Dive

The California High-Speed Rail issued the request for proposals to three design-build groups, even though the Federal Railroad Administration said it would not approve the RFP.

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Pump Station Will Cut Town’s Sewage Overflow

ENR Construction

the owner’s designer, Kleinfelder, suggested pipe jacking to launch three new wastewater conveyance pipelines at the pump station that would run under a railroad and flood wall before crossing the river and passing through a levee to the Springfield Water & Sewer Commission treatment facility in Agawam, Mass.

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Flyover Design | Flyover Construction | Types of Flyover | What Is Flyover

CivilJungle

A Flyover is a bridge that carries one railroad or road over another. Whereas Flyover is designed to connect two points in congested areas or roads and intersections of roads. Flyover Design: In recent years Flyover Design plays an important role in reducing and diverting the growing number of traffic in big cities.

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