heehee...after getting feedback from my usual readers that there are boys out there who actually reads my blogs! eeks...haha i guess better not post too many feminine possessions of mine...though hmm...it might proof to be a good insight as to what ur gfs might like!!! but then again maybe not...haha cos as WJ puts in...i have unique taste. (bleah) and so...today's post shall be a more 'manly' approach...LET TALK ABOUT ENGINEERING baby! hahah...must always tell myelf that im an aki student and not some fashionista...*wince* oh god...for the love of god, why didnt he sent me a sign to tell me that aki was SO NOT ME!
anyway...here's the new buzz!
Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......now this is engineering! This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin. The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.
Taking six years to build and costing around half a billion euros, the massive undertaking will connect Berlin's inland harbor with the ports along the Rhine river. At the center of the project is Europe's longest water bridge measuring in just shy of a kilometer at 918 meters. The huge tub to transport ships over the Elbe took 24,000 metric tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete to build. The water bridge will enable river barges to avoid a lengthy and sometimes unreliable passage along the Elbe. Shipping can often come to a halt on the stretch if the river's water mark falls to unacceptably low levels.
dunno when i will get to see the real thing for myself! what a feat!
pinky @_@
pinky @_@
No comments:
Post a Comment