SAIDEL Engineering Designs First Residential Building above Subway Tunnels in West Bucharest

PLAXIS Provides Industry Model Promoting Future Development over City Tunnels By Jana Miller Pioneering Development over City Tunnels In western Bucharest, Romania, a land developer initiated a EUR 2.5 million project to construct the city’s first residential building over the city’s subway tunnels. The structure was initially planned as a 10-story building with a basement […] The post SAIDEL Engineering Designs First Residential Building above Subway Tunnels in West Bucharest appeared first on Civil + Structural Engineer magazine.

New York's Subway System: The Most Expensive Railway Ever Constructed

The system since its inception in the years before its completion battle's over who built operated and paid for the metro raged on they continued today. As the U.S.A became the world's epicentre for cars and sub-urbanisation, New York's government failed to make the subway a viable transit for non-urban populations. Finally a lack of proper maintenance and increased costs has placed the entire system in a hole that it might never dig itself out of.