Cofferdam is lowered by the Helix Q4000 mobile offshore drilling unit to the seabed at the site of the former BP Plc Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the...
Crewmen aboard the M/V Joe Griffin watch as a cofferdam is hoisted by a crane from the Helix Q4000 mobile offshore drilling unit, left, before being...
Cofferdam is lowered by the Helix Q4000 mobile offshore drilling unit to the seabed at the site of the former BP Plc Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the...
Oil sticks to the sides of a cofferdam as it is deployed to the seabed at the site of the former BP Plc Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of...
Wooden shuttering being fited to the walls of the cofferdam once the reinforcing is fixed in and the concrete poured this will be the foundation for...
Widening the tops of recently floated in caissons forming the piers for the Rion-Antirion road bridge across the Gulf of Corinth in Greece: Potain...
Widening the tops of recently floated in caissons forming the piers for the Rion-Antirion road bridge across the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth in...
Venice flood scheme Giant gate foundation caissons being cast in the construction yard with a rank of tower cranes and concrete pumps, Venezia, Italy.
Mosaïques byzantines et plafond à caissons de bois de la chapelle Palatine, à Palerme. Palais des Normands.
The extraction of water from the cofferdam, laying of the foundation in a river, engraving from Le diverse et artificiose machine del Capitano...
Construction of a cofferdam to create the foundation in a river, engraving from Le diverse et artificiose machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli ,...
Bridge on wooden caissons, woodcut from La nuova architettura civile e militare, by Alessandro Capra, printed by Pietro Ricchina, Cremona, 1717.
Rows of Caissons with British Military Tents in Background, Crimean War, Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine, by Roger Fenton, 1855.
In Toulouse, Liebherr-Aerospace is in charge of A380's air control systems . Equipments are tested in flight conditions thanks to "high-altitude"...
In Toulouse, Liebherr-Aerospace is in charge of A380's air control systems . Equipments are tested in flight conditions thanks to "high-altitude"...
In Toulouse, Liebherr-Aerospace is in charge of A380's air control systems . Equipments are tested in flight conditions thanks to "high-altitude"...
Le plafond à caissons du cabinet des Grelots dans le château de Beauregard, à Cellettes, dans le Loir-et-Cher, France.
Le plafond plafond à caissons peints de la Chambre du Roi dans le palais des archevêques de Narbonne, dans l'Aude, France.
Caissons du port d'Arromanches, construits par les britanniques pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, dans le Calvados, France.
Narbonne, the interior of the Archbishops' palace. The King's bedroom and its lacunar ceiling, designed in 1623 by the Rodières brothers . "Pays...
The castle of Chambord. The top of the double revolution staircase, the lacunar stone ceiling of the lantern and the salamander of François I are...
Temple of Hathor at Dendara. The coffers of the ceiling in the hypostyle hall display painted decors. In the left coffer, at a heigth of 15m, the...
Egypt, astronomical ceiling. Temple of Hathor in Dendera. In this temple, the coffers of the ceiling of the hypostyle room are decorated with painted...
No original . The coffers of the facade's ceiling were painted white and bordered with turquoise, which made the scandalized neighbors exclaim that...
Granaries, caissons, silos , grain drying , chromolithograph from Particolari di costruzioni murali e finimenti di fabbricati, Costruzioni Rurali,...
Making the cofferdam, the flood in the Fens, United Kingdom, illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London News, volume XL, June 21, 1862.
Cutting the piles which form the cofferdam of the Thames, London, United Kingdom, illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London News, volume...
Hand-coloured engraving depicting sectioned views of a wooden cone, or caisson, to be used in the construction of a breakwater. Caissons of this type...
Portland Harbour, Dorset, 1946. The port and harbour from the north. HMS 'Nelson' and two other battleships at anchor. Also visible are a string of...
Excavating crews complete the first phase of grading for the 28-story Murchison tower at 17th and Welton, ready for the drilling of holes for support...
Glen Canyon Dam & Reservoir - 1960 Equipment idled by recent strike is being-readied here, atop cofferdam, for return to work. Cofferdam is earth...
Workers from the G.E. Johnson construction company set a 40-foot casisson in place for the foundation of the Masonic Temple in downtown Denver. Jim...
The pilings, girders and a giant crane Jut into the Denver skyline as construction work continues on the Lincoln Center office building at the...
The parking ramps-the first 10 floors of the Lincoln Center office building at E. 17th Ave. And Lincoln St. Are nearly completed. The parking will be...
Englewood Tears Em Down - and Builds 'Em Up They're tearing things down in Englewood. But they're building, too. Photo above is the former Englewood...
Prelude to a Skyscraper The huge.crane in center is working on one of 249 foundation holes which are being drilled, then filled with steel and...
This is not an oil field They resemble the clusters of derricks atop famed Signal Hill in Long Beach, Calif., but the steel devices in this photo are...
Huge Blocks Stump Excavators Two-ton sandstone base blocks that served as support columns for old building at 17th and California Sts., prove problem...
Construction worker Emary Adkins is almost obscured by dirt hurled out by drill which bores holes for the concrete caissons which will support the...
Workers Of Caissons, Inc., Englewood, Place Reinforcing Steel Employes, from left, are Frank Hoffman, William Bloesser and Robert Allen. Credit:...
Mountain Bell Project Starts From the Bottom It may not seem so, but construction is about 8 per cent completed on Mountain Bell's $37 million...
Workmen and officials look over the huge rotating drill being used to bore holes 48 feet deep for the concrete caissons to support Denver's new...
Workers from the G.E. Johnson construction Company set a 40 - foot caisson in place for the foundation of the Masonic Temple in downtown Denver. Jim...
The parking ramps - the first 10 floors - of the Lincoln Center office building at E. 17th Ave. And Lincoln St. Are nearly completed. The parking...
Skeletons of Progress The pilings, girders and a giant crane jut into the Denver skyline as construction work continues on the Lincoln Center office...
Waterloo Bridge, London, across the Thames. Built by John Rennie between 1811 and 1817. Coffer dams used instead of caissons. Illustration by Thomas...
By Alexis Okeowo "A new dam promises to light up Uganda" Salini workers help construct the upstream cofferdam in Uganda on August 29, 2007. The...
War & Conflict, World War Two, France, June 1944, British built Mulberry harbour, Made from prefabricated 'caissons', Seen here off the Normandy...
Worker washes clothes in a shed as other workers continue construction within a cofferdam, an enclosure displaced of water, on the Three Gorges...
Workers pour concrete forms in an effort to harden the cofferdam of the Three Gorges Reservoir June 2, 2007 in Wushan County of Chongqing...
Workers continue pouring concrete forms in an effort to harden the cofferdam of the Three Gorges Reservoir June 2, 2007 in Wushan County of Chongqing...
Worker pours concrete forms in an effort to harden the cofferdam of the Three Gorges Reservoir June 2, 2007 in Wushan County of Chongqing...