BARTLETT SCHOOL OF PLANNING France Millau Viaduct Viaduc de Millau LATTS 1 This report was compiled by the French OMEGA Team‚ Ecole Nationales Ponts et Chaussees‚ Paris‚ France. Please Note: This Project Profile has been prepared as part of the ongoing OMEGA Centre of Excellence work on Mega Urban Transport Projects. The information presented in the Profile is essentially a ’work in progress’ and will be updated/amended as necessary as work proceeds. Readers are therefore advised to
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THE MILLAU BRIDGE SOUTHERN FRANCE V. Ryan © 2005 - 2009 The Millau Bridge is in southern France and crosses the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains. It was designed by the British architect Lord Foster and at 300m (984 feet) it is the highest road bridge in the world‚ weighing 36‚000 tonnes. The central pillar is higher than the famous French icon‚ the Eiffel Tower. The Bridge opened in December 2004 and is possibly one of the most breath taking bridges ever built.
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The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed road bridge which spans the valley of the river Tarn situated alongside the Township of Millau in Southern France. The viaduct standing over 343 meters tall was the world’s tallest cable-stayed bridge and was proposed as the missing link in the A75 auto route that connects Paris in the north to Perpignan in the south. The Millau Viaduct was the product of 17 years of ideas‚ proposals‚ planning and designs that resulted in shaving 40 miles off the former route
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Original Project Objectives: After Ten years of research and four years of implementation the Millau Viaduct finally broke records and was widely regarded as an exemplary Project. Construction began on 10th October 2001 and was intended to take three years to complete construction but weather conditions put work on the bridge behind schedule. A revised schedule aimed for the bridge to be opened in January 2005. Once revised it was completed many weeks ahead of schedule and inaugurated by President
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substructures. Millau Viaduct Millau Viaduct is the tallest bridge in the world‚ located in Southern France. The bridge reaches the height of 343 meters and weighs in a 36‚000 tonnes. The bridge was designed by the French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux and British architect Norman Foster. The bridge opened in 2004 on 16th December after costing around €400 million. The Construction of the Millau came in three parts: the concrete‚ the steel and then the final construction. The Viaduct used many
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Norman Foster Norman Foster is a major contributor to twentieth century architecture both in the westernworld and further afield. After starting his studies in architecture over 50 years ago he has designeda range of buildings (and bridges) and continues to produce outstanding designs today. Aswell asexploring Foster’s career this essay will focus primarily on two of Foster’s buildings‚ Creek VeanHouse in Cornwall and the Willis Building in Ipswich (originally the Willis Faber and DumasHeadquarters)
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provided at Winterbourne View. After considering a range of evidence inspectors conclude that the registered provider‚ Castlebeck Care (Teesdale) Ltd‚ had failed to ensure that people living at Winterbourne View were adequately protected from risk‚ including the risks of unsafe practices by its own staff. The report concludes that there was a systemic failure to protect people or to investigate allegations of abuse. The provider had failed in its legal duty to notify the Care Quality Commission of serious
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VS BREED ERP BEST OF T H E S U P P LY C H A I N D E B AT E R A G E S O N T HE DEBATE OCCURS IN CONFERENCE ROOMS ALL AROUND THE WORLD: “Should we expand our ERP capability to include supply chain execution‚ or go with a best-of-breed provider of supply chain solutions?” The arguments are intense. There’s validity on both sides. “We need to improve our global supply execution. Let’s call our ERP provider. They have some new stuff” “Are you sure? From what I hear‚ their supply
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is used a workstation risk assessment must be carried out. 2. Where laptops and notebooks are used as a significant part of day-to-day work a risk assessment must be carried out. 3. Work planned to include regular breaks from the computer. 4. Users of Display Screen Equipment should be informed of their right to a free eye test. 5. OHS leaflet “Are you keying safely” should be issued to DSE users. Manual handling of heavy/bulky objects (back injuries) L 1. A risk assessment must be completed
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Risk This assignment will critically evaluate theories of risk‚ and consider the approaches to practice for the role of a local authority social worker in the identification‚ assessment and management of risk of social work with children‚ young people and families. There will be consideration given to the impact of social work practice on service users and carers including my understanding of anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice. The idiom ‘damned if you do and damned if you don’t’
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