It shows a caisson or diving-bell, designed by Messrs. Burmeister and Wain, and adopted by them in building the piers of the new bridge in Copenhagen. The principal economy consists in having the ...

Nowadays, a project like this would use a cofferdam: a temporary ... you’re in the realm of regular construction. Using a ...

Nowadays, a project like this would use a cofferdam: a temporary ... you’re in the realm of regular construction. Using a caisson is another way to provide a dry area at a site that is typically ...

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Work on the Hudson River tunnel cofferdam proceeded slowly yesterday, the water having gained slightly upon the pumps, but not sufficiently to prevent the men from working in the excavation.

August 21: Eads begins construction of a cofferdam for the west abutment of ... October: The first caisson, for the east pier of the St. Louis Bridge, is launched from its own construction site ...

Crews planned to break down the last remaining cofferdams — infrastructure built to divert water around the larger dams’ original construction sites — at the Iron Gate and Copco No.

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