Buildings and Bridges Project
Building
1.
When it was built.
2.
Who designed and built it.
3.
Where in the world it is located, continent,
country and city (with a map and arrow pointing to location).
4.
Main construction materials used to build it.
5.
What type/category of structure is it AND
explain how you known.
6.
Main internal forces.
7.
Main external forces.
8.
Explain whether it must support a static (dead
load) and/or dynamic (live) load.
9.
Describe at least one major design challenges
that were faced when designing and creating this structure. Explain how they were
overcome.
10. Five
additional interesting facts.
11. Images
of: the design plans for the structure (if you can find them), the construction
process and the final structure (at least two views). Show the structure in
Google Earth, if possible.
Bridge