Nearby were concrete pilings, the beginnings of a structure never built.
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Then the pilings holding it to the bay floor started bending.
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Both are built on wood pilings driven into the river bottom sand.
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Our house is in the middle of the island and on pilings.
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Today, the site is nothing more than a scatter of concrete pilings.
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The pier itself would sit atop 550 pilings driven into the riverbed.
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The pier has since been rebuilt with pest-proof, concrete-and-steel pilings.
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The walls are made of poured concrete on top of 40-foot pilings.
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Wind turbines—or, rather, the concrete pilings upon which they sit—are no different.
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At a river that bisects Xiangtan, giant pilings have been sunk to support a bridge.
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In anticipation of the next catastrophe, public buildings in the parish stand on improbable pilings.
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In the past, nor'easters have ripped its end from the ground and tore pilings from sand.
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They have infiltrated timber pilings from the San Francisco wharves to the famed canals in Venice.
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This tableau is crosscut by reddish wooden pilings whose outsized dimensions fix them firmly in the foreground.
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Upon arrival, the suspect was forced to climb up pilings to enter the terminal, the police said.
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It has already spent about $50 million to reinforce or encase 1,500 of those pilings in concrete.
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A bird sits on pilings hiding from the winds of Hurricane Matthew in Cocoa Beach, Florida on Oct.
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There are about forty houses left, most of them raised up on pilings, and many of them abandoned.
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The number of pilings, he said, would still greatly disturb the riverbed and aquatic life in the Hudson.
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It stands 18 feet above the ground on pillars with pilings that extend more than 100 feet underground.
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Hudson River Park has spent hundreds of millions of dollars since 2000 to demolish 14 older piers sitting on deteriorating timber pilings and rebuild them with concrete decks and pilings, according to Madelyn Wils, the president and chief executive officer of The Hudson River Park Trust, which operates the park.
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Their abstract innerworkings — resembling crates, joints, banisters, handles and pilings — seem embedded into one another, as if supernaturally unified.
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Civil engineers are experimenting with new types of pilings and foundations to help keep Arctic buildings on strong footing.
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While some newer structures in the area are built on elevated pilings, many older homes and businesses are not.
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It is currently assessing the condition of the timber pilings at all its piers and wharves in the region.
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His eyesight deteriorating, Mr. Eide could hear the machines pounding the pilings into the earth but couldn't see them.
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The money was approved for the repair of the pier's steel pilings, not to demolish and rebuild the pier.
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Even today they can bring structures with wood pilings under them, like Pier 5 in Brooklyn, to their knees.
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Newer buildings are placed on elevated pilings or raised floors, with all critical electrical infrastructure installed above the flood line.
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Officials said the crane, which was new, was engaged in a routine task — wielding a vibratory hammer to install pilings.
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One house we passed had been raised to a particularly vertiginous height; Simoneaux estimated that its pilings were thirty feet tall.
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Many homes built to withstand a hurricane come outfitted with steel shutters, concrete pilings, hurricane straps, and impact-rated garage doors.
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Nevertheless, she said she and her husband will remain in their home, which sits on tall pilings, 24 feet above ground.
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The home's elevation, on high pilings, was meant to keep it above the surge of seawater that usually accompanies powerful hurricanes.
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The path will be built over the water and rest atop pilings, similar to the paths on the Upper West Side.
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The pots consist of four to six segments, or petals, cast in a lightweight concrete to minimize the weight on the pilings.
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According to the Times-Union, the bridge's pilings were built on the riverbed instead of driven into the bedrock beneath the surface.
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Vicky's husband, Bob Wells, 72, drove pilings 23 feet into the ground and used rebar to reinforce a concrete foundation every two feet.
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It's Diller Island, a park and performing arts venue being built on pilings over the Hudson River, along the West Side of Manhattan.
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He raised the house two feet onto brick pilings, bought $21995,21997 worth of flood fencing and said he complied with every federal recommendation.
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But that's what he did this spring, adding 11-foot wood pilings and switchback staircases beneath his 1930 house on Long Beach Island.
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Last year, the authority spent $2300 million to encase 2400 timber pilings in concrete — or about $21,000 per piling — under three Brooklyn piers.
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They often work together, with shipworms boring tunnels inside timber pilings and gribbles chewing from the outside, according to scientists and city officials.
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The pier, in turn, spreads the load of the structure out to an underground concrete platform supported on pilings up to 180 feet deep.
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The developer paid $100 million for the air rights to build a considerably larger project, and work on the pilings should begin next spring.
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While much of the road is elevated on pilings, it can be damaged in severe storms, as it was in 1998 during Hurricane Georges.
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In its lawsuits, the opponents have raised environmental issues relating to the impact that a new pier sitting on 550 concrete pilings would have.
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Steel cables go from the girders above the pilings through the roof and continue down the other side of the back wall, they said.
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Pinckney, a 13-year-old writer, said in a telephone interview his house was built on marine dock pilings with hurricane straps and tie-downs.
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He lived in it through the summer and then knocked it down last Thanksgiving, replacing it with a two-story house atop 10-foot pilings.
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In the heart of the winter, the half-frozen sea is gray, sluggish waves too heavy to crest, whitecaps crashing against the pilings and jetties.
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The borers have also weakened timber pilings under the Carroll Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, and under the F.D.R. Drive in Manhattan.
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It settled on an approach that coats timber pilings in a thin layer of epoxy before they became too weakened to stand on their own.
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Although pilings and screwjacks are now used extensively in the Arctic, the additional materials and effort to dig into the permafrost makes construction costs even higher.
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The city's Parks Department is also reinforcing or rebuilding pilings under an esplanade along the East River, and at several marinas in Queens and the Bronx.
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In between trips, he heard Amanda making arrangements to take shelter, with their daughters, at her sister's house, built on pilings and tucked away from the wind.
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Reached by walkways, it will be secured by hundreds of pilings and the strength of the largest private donation to a public park in New York's history.
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The walls' only décor were a few framed black and white photographs of an old leather briefcase, the bay and pilings in fog and a 1940s telephone.
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The new structure would have to maintain the footprint of the old one, although it would be raised on pilings more than 11 feet above sea level.
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Officials feared the pier, which sits within Hudson River Park, was in danger of collapse because many of the 3,500 steel pilings that hold it are deteriorating.
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Pier 55, its official name, was to have stood on pilings in the river, an undulating platform lushly landscaped and dotted with stages for music, dance and theater.
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"In the early 2000s, it became evident the marine borers were back in full force — they were actively eating the wood pilings in the park," Ms. Wils said.
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The other morning, Mr. Landau and David Lowin, the park's executive vice president, climbed into a power boat to inspect the thicket of pilings just below the park.
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It was built with many local and reclaimed materials, including Douglas fir flooring and beams recovered from an industrial building in Seattle and cedar pilings repurposed as columns.
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You reported that one unintended consequence of the boom in offshore windpower is that the pilings for the turbines are being inhabited by mussels ("Flexing the mussels", October 14th).
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Eight others, which had occupied the terrace at the end of what is called Big Island, a block of cabanas on pilings over the sand, could not be rebuilt.
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But instead of creating revenue Pier 40 has turned into a drain on the park's finances, with its 2503,500 corroded steel pilings in need of $100 million in repairs.
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For those living in some flood-prone areas, those elevations must be on wood or cylindrical concrete pilings, while in less vulnerable coastal areas, masonry blocks can be used.
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It is undertaking a four-year, $114 million project to coat 11,000 timber pilings under four of its piers with epoxy as a way to prevent any further damage.
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Brooklyn Bridge Park, which opened in 2010, sits atop four former industrial piers held up by a total of 13,000 timber pilings (a fifth pier is built on landfill).
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In total, the park expects to spend about $300 million on work on the pilings — or about three-quarters of the original $400 million cost to build the park.
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Andrew M. Cuomo stepped in to strike a deal with park officials and a developer to transfer unused development rights and subsequently infuse $100 million to repair the pilings.
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The workers also knew Big wouldn't survive the rest of the project, which will involve, in effect, power-washing the pilings and encasing them in cement, Mr. Kister said.
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Offshore wind is far more expensive to build and operate because of the difficulties of sinking pilings on the sea bottom and keeping equipment functioning in a hostile marine environment.
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Statsbygg's new housing will consequently be put atop steel pilings driven deep through the permafrost to the underlying bedrock 10-15m beneath—the first residential buildings to be so constructed.
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The project would rest on 12 pilings spaced 65 feet apart — five of them on the peninsula, with a sixth out at the end and another six in the water.
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The futuristic pier would have stood on a forest of pilings in the river and would have included an amphitheater and two landscaped areas for staging musical and theatrical performances.
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After chest-high floodwaters destroyed their home and turned their belongings to sludge a year ago during Hurricane Florence, the family defiantly built a new house atop 10-foot pilings.
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Mr. Lowin recalled that when he started working on the park more than a decade ago, he had to learn all about timber pilings — and the threat from marine borers.
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Perhaps then men could take the same pride in their work that Mr. Dawson, the unemployed welder, showed when he talked about making pilings for the rebuilt World Trade Center.
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I know a man in Plaquemines Parish, 60 miles downriver from New Orleans, who after Katrina rebuilt his home 21 feet off the ground, on pilings, to keep above storm surges.
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The project would rest on 12 pilings — five of them on the peninsula, with a sixth out at the end of it and another six in the water to the south.
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The river of fire spreads to a yet-to-be-unloaded fuel tanker, currently drifting in the river after the pilings it was tied to came loose in the spreading river bottom.
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First, they rebuilt a dilapidated pier with new pilings, decking, floats for lobstermen, power, and running water, "all to make this a grade A spot for lobstermen to fish from," Holden said.
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The domes are supported by concrete pilings and were once interconnected to make a 2,4000-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom home outfitted with solar panels and a cistern to collect rainwater.
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I could also see the two or three surfers sitting in the water next to designated pilings, hoping that I'd fall, then each giving me a generous shout-out as I passed.
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After chest-high floodwaters destroyed her home and turned the furnishings to sludge a year ago during Hurricane Florence, she and her family defiantly built a new house atop 10-foot pilings.
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The couple's house is attached by enormous brackets to pilings driven into the bay, so technically they are permanently docked, although the structure can be towed out if major repairs are needed.
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Many believed such a huge appendage could never be built atop the marshy land of Flushing Meadows Park, but it's resting on massive steel and concrete-filled pilings 180 feet below the surface.
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Point Hope had been moved, at great borough expense, to a beach six feet above sea level; the gym, on high pilings, will be the safest refuge if a storm crashes through town.
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Surfers sit in the water, next to designated pilings, along a steel-mesh fence between the Vehicle's path and the pool proper, and if someone falls another surfer quickly jumps on the empty wave.
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But now industrial debris like slag is increasingly coming under the spotlight as well, potentially pressing steelmakers to tackle the pilings problems head on at a time when they are grappling with weaker profit-margins.
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Five years ago, an engineering firm report revealed that 57 percent of the 3,500 steel pilings in Hudson River Park's Pier 40 had severely deteriorated, putting the structure in danger of collapsing into the Hudson River.
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It involves exhumed artifacts from the City of Boston's Archaeology Lab, mineral specimens on loan from the Mineralogical & Geological Museum at Harvard University, and McKim, Mead & White's blueprint for BPL, showing the wooden pilings below its foundation.
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But the gangway became the least of the dock's problems when it was dealt another blow the past winter, this one fatal: Around January, the pilings that anchored it to the bed of the bay, called spuds, bent.
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The application calls for eliminating the concrete filling that was to be used in a small number of the pilings that would support the pier and for removing a barge that was to be docked next to the structure.
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The revised application eliminates two of the judge's technical objections: the use of concrete to fill in some of the 550 pilings that would support the new pier and a barge that was to be docked next to it.
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But as he made another trip on Thursday morning to check on his find, there it was, a few pilings farther out from shore: a second plant, this one heavy with 15 or so little yellow and green tomatoes.
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Now, many of those small cottages have been raised up on six- or eight-foot-high pilings, while others are being replaced with larger homes, like the five-bedroom modular house that Kristin Sebelle is eagerly waiting to be completed.
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Mindful that a judge had objected to the Diller park's proposed use of concrete to fill in some of Pier 55's 550 pilings, the Whitney's installation involves the construction of no solid surfaces like a floor, walls or platforms.
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The pilings were no longer deemed stable, and the dock was towed by the parks department to its current swan-filled location in Sheepshead Bay, where it lingers, just across the street from the giant lobster-shaped sign of Randazzo's Clam Bar.
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There was the image of a roller coaster resting in the ocean off Seaside Heights, N.J. There were miles of boardwalk ripped from pilings in the Rockaways, as well as the blackened remains of 126 houses that burned to the ground there.
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They relentlessly attack the timber pilings that hold up the pristine lawns, basketball and handball courts, soccer and lacrosse fields, and roller skating rink, and threaten the future of an 250-acre park that has become a showcase for New York's waterfront redevelopment.
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"At every point, from pilings to the roof and everything in between, when it came time to make a decision about what level of material or what to use, we didn't pay attention to code," Lackey told CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday.
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For the park's design, Mr. Diller hired the renowned British designer Thomas Heatherwick, who envisioned an undulating 2.4-acre platform that rises out of the river like a green Neverland, supported around the perimeter by clusters of Champagne-glass-shaped pots sprouting from pilings sunk into the riverbed.
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An engineer dives; a person we call a tender takes care of the equipment, such as the air supply and the communications cable; and a third person communicates with the diver by radio and takes notes as the diver relays information about pilings or a retaining wall, for example.
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What bent the pilings, which are made of solid steel and 26 inches in diameter, is a mystery, even after the company that designed the dock sent a team of divers to inspect it, according to a report filed with the parks department by Stephen A. Famularo, the chief project manager for the company.
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For the coming year, Lonza predicted much the same for its two businesses, as it invests in its biotech and pharma operations and navigates "potential ongoing headwinds" for the chemicals business, whose products include ingredients for shoe polish, boosting natural gas and oil production, and wood preservatives used for fences, marine docks and pilings.
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That policy is: Migrants interdicted in U.S. waters, or onboard a vessel moored to a U.S. pier, or on pilings, low-tide elevations or -- and this is the big one -- "aids to navigation" are not considered to have come ashore in the U.S. Migrants who reach structures permanently connected to dry land have not technically landed ashore ... but they are generally treated as if they had reached dry land.
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