http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6519472.html?q=tivoli In Refugio County, Texas, salty coastal air and brackish water combine with a moist subtropical climate and 37 inches of rain per year to create a highly corrosive environment for steel and other traditional building materials…This is a cool bridge fabricated out of fiberglass. There is also a post about bamboo bridges in China. There are “cool” construction materials out there.
http://www.housesofthefuture.com.au/hof_houses04.html Houses of the Future website is very cool. It has at least six examples of future houses (maybe?). This link is a cardboard house which I found fascinating when presented in CMT3210. I think I may try build one in my back yard for my mother-in-law.
http://www.epi-shields.com/JobStories/job_stories_RiverDiversion.htm This is a great example of using trench boxes to build a cofferdam and divert the Weber River in Riverdale, UT.
