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Time lapse: Breaking down the Wells Street bridge in Chicago from Craig Newman on Vimeo. The Chicago Transit Authority is tearing down the Wells Street bridge, disrupting Brown and Purple Line service for at least a week. This is an unedited time lapse of the first 48 hours of construction as iron workers went about [...]
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Hennepin County’s Lowry Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, will open in the Fall of 2012. Shot over two days in October 2011, this time lapse video is composed of 11,000+ photos. The precast edge girders were built on site, moved by barge, and lifted into place. Each girder is approximately 155 [...]
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(Re-posted with permission from Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2)) This time-lapse video shows accelerated bridge construction (ABC) techniques being used by a local contractor with standard equipment to replace a three-span bridge on U.S. 6 over Keg Creek in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. The $2.7 million reconstruction project is a cooperative effort involving FHWA, the [...]
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Merced California G Street Underpass Construction Photo Time Lapse – CityOfMerced on YouTube
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Westfield required an extremely quick schedule in order to open the parking structure in time to support an annual tennis tournament that takes place at the mall on the 4th of July weekend. The total precast Design-Manufacture-Construction approach provided a very lean and efficient delivery of the parking structure. The duration from ground breaking to [...]
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The weekend of Sept. 23 — 26 was a busy one on I-5 in Lynnwood. Construction crews, who work mostly at night and behind barrier to stay out of your daytime commute, had to pull the last year’s work together and connect the new ramps to I-5. The time lapse is 21 hours of work [...]
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The second segment of the new Proctor Lane bridge is moved into place.
-UtahDOT on YouTube
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Roughly one image per week showing construction of the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center in Silver Spring, Maryland from 6/12/2009 through 12/21/2010.
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