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Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge
Vertical
Access, working with Freyssinet LLC
and the South Carolina Department of
Transportation, recently completed an investigation the cables of of the longest
cable-stayed bridge in North America.
The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge (more popularly known as the Cooper
River Bridge) is located between Charleston and Mount Pleasant over the
Cooper River in South Carolina.
Completed in 2005, the bridge was designed and built by Parsons
Brinckerhoff and Palmetto Bridge Constructors to replace two
obsolete bridges: the Grace Memorial Bridge and the Pearlman Bridge.
More
on the Ravenel Bridge
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Mechanical
Anchor Strength in Stone Masonry
The Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI)
and Vertical Access LLC were awarded funds from NCPTT for a
research program investigating
mechanical anchor strength in stone
masonry.
The lab research has been completed. The
initial analysis of the results were presented at the Eastern
Analytical Symposium in November. The complete report will be available on our website in February.
Link to an excerpt from the presentation |
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The
Guastavino Timeline
The Guastavino Timeline: 1842-1968 is a work-in-progress document
created by Vertical Access to show the history of the Guastavino
Company in a format that has not been presented before.
The
document includes three timelines: 1) "Projects," which
lists each building or structure in which Rafael Guastavino as an
architect or the Guastavino Company as a designer and builder was
involved; 2) "Patents and Publications," which shows the
year that patents were approved and articles or books by
Guastavino were published; and 3) "Company," which
includes milestones in the history of the founder of the company
(Rafael Guastavino y Moreno), his son and partner (Rafael
Guastavino y Esposito) and the R. Guastavino Fireproof
Construction Company (later the R. Guastavino Company).
Download
the Guastavino Timeline |
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Kent's
Trip to Barcelona
Kent Diebolt traveled to Spain in December for 10 days to expand his knowledge of the history of Catalan vaulting.
In Barcelona,
he toured La Pedrera. One of the larger works by Gaudi, it is an apartment building in the heart of Barcelona. The attic vaults are exquisite and the the fanciful but highly functional rooftop ornamentation
evokes the sinister Darth Vader, of Starwars fame.
He also visited Empuries, the
site of ancient Greek, then Roman, cities. There he toured Saint Marti, the original site of the Greek city Empuries.
See
more photos from Kent's trip.
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