The School of Engineering celebrated 50 years at the Sandy Bay Campus in 2009. Many thousand engineers have graduated with an engineering degree during this time.
The building is typical 1950's architecture - bulky and functional - instantly recognisable to those who walked its corridors in the last 5 decades.
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The School of Engineering celebrated 50 years at the Sandy Bay Campus in 2009. Many thousand engineers have graduated with an engineering degree during this time.
This is the service lane between the labs and the main building
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Near Longford, Tasmania.
This old brick railway bridge was under heavy flood in March 2011 - the amazing engineering that was used to construct the bridge has withstood the test of time.
The water level in this photo is about 2 to 3 metres higher than normal flow.
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Tarraleah power station
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This is actually in colour! The top of Mt Wellington, Hobart.
The construction of the telecommunications tower is a wonderful story. The previous metal tower structure was considered dangerous as large chunks of ice would fall without warning, and was a major maintenance headache. The removal of the old tower required a perfectly still day - apparently Mt Wellington only has a handfull of 'still' enough days at the summit every year. In January 1999, a such a perfectly still day came and an army of engineers and other professionals assembled at short notice (following many months of careful planning), closed the road, cut one leg of the tower and jacked the opposing corner until it fell in a spectacular heap over the circular road at the pinnacle car park.
The new tower that is shown here was constructed using concrete that could withstand the extremes of temperature and weather (very strong wind!) at the top of the mountain. A true engineering masterpiece that goes well beyond just the concrete that it is physically made of.
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