MACRO: Big Engineering Projects
Ernst G. Frankel
Tue Jan 14, Thu Jan 16, 02-03:30pm, 5-314
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Discussion of the process of the selection, planning, implementation and use of large-scale engineering projects: Successes, Failures and Outright Stupidities.
Hydroelectric Projects: Three Gorges Project, Igozu, etc.
Tunnels and Tunneling Projects: English Channel Tunnel, Boston's Big Dig
Canals: Panama Expansion, Suez Widening
Water Supply: Rhone-Algiers Project, Turkey's Water World
Reclamation and Artificial Islands: Singapore, Israel/Gaza Islands
Transport Projects in Development
Transmexican Landbridge
Contact: Ernst G. Frankel, (617) 734-2221, frankel@mit.edu
Sponsor: Ocean Engineering
Latest update: 13-Jan-2003
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