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Some projects are said to have created profound detrimental environmental effects and/or provided questionable economic benefit such as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet in southeast Louisiana. [2] Faulty design and substandard construction have been cited in the failure of levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. [3]
A bulkhead is a retaining wall, such as a bulkhead within a ship or a watershed retaining wall. It may also be used in mines to contain flooding. Coastal bulkheads are most often referred to as seawalls, bulkheading, or riprap revetments. These manmade structures are constructed along shorelines with the purpose of controlling beach erosion.
A cofferdam is a small space left open between two bulkheads, to give protection from heat, fire, or collision. [2] Tankers generally have cofferdams forward and aft of the cargo tanks, and sometimes between individual tanks. [3] A pumproom houses all the pumps connected to a tanker's cargo lines. [1] Some larger tankers have two pumprooms. [1]
Bulkhead also refers to a moveable structure often found in an Olympic-size swimming pool, as a means to set the pool into a "double-ended short course" configuration, or long-course, depending on the type of event being run. Pool bulkheads are usually air-fillable, but power driven solutions do exist.
The Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP), is a 162-mile long 24” crude oil pipeline project through Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin.It crosses 11 parishes (Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, Acadia Parish, Louisiana, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, Iberia Parish, Louisiana, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, Ascension Parish, Louisiana ...
Ship Design and Construction Vol. I. Jersey City: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. ISBN 0-939773-40-6. MAN Diesel Group (2005). "Propulsion Trends in Bulk Carriers" (PDF). MAN Diesel Group. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2008; International Association of Classification Societies (2007).
Weeks has three key divisions—Construction, Dredging and Marine Services. Weeks also owns three major subsidiaries, Healy Tibbitts Builders, Inc. McNally International, Inc, and North American Aggregates, Inc. Weeks manages a network of regional offices in Louisiana, Texas, Hawaii, Ontario and Nova Scotia. [2]
George A. Caldwell, sometimes known as Big George Caldwell (August 24, 1892 – March 12, 1966), was a Louisiana building contractor and state official. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, he served as Superintendent for Construction at Louisiana State University, where he was known to "rake off 2 per cent of the cost of all building ...