PHOTOGRAPHS BY TOM GILLETTE
HEAVY CIVIL CONSTRUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS
These photographs were taken on construction sites in Houston, Texas by Tom Gillette during his assignments as a Resident Engineer and a Construction Manager. Click on the photograph to enlarge the photo to full size.
Pipe support for an 84 inch diameter steel water line pipe bridge across Buffalo Bayou at 69th Street in Houston, Texas.
Installing 84 inch diameter prestressed concrete cylinder pipe in an open cut trench along Harrisburg Street in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Texas Sterling Construction installing a 60 inch diameter concrete access manhole over a 24 inch diameter drain valve on Wayside Drive in Houston Texas.
Workers with Texas Sterling Construction installing 84 inch precast concrete cylinder pipe under a 66 inch storm sewer pipe along Navigation Street in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Eby Construction installing an 84 inch diameter steel water transmission line across Buffalo Bayou at 69th Street in Houston, Texas. The Contractor used barges to deliver the pipe to the site. Yes, it is Oiler Blue in color.
Workers with R. W. Lewis Construction installing 24 inch diameter water line pressure reducing valve and by pass piping in a precast concrete access vault on Polk Street in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Texas Sterling Construction install 24 inch drain line piping to drain an 84 inch diameter water line on Navigation Street at Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Texas Sterling Construction repairing a 1.5 inch diameter service connection that pulled out from an existing 20 inch water main along Navigation Street in Houston, Texas. The City of Houston could not find the valves to turn the water off. Workers got the saddle on and the water stopped after about three attempts with the water pressure near 65 psi.
Texas Sterling Construction installing 66 inch diameter precast concrete cylinder pipe in an open cut trench along Richmond Avenue at Edloe Street in Houston, Texas.
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Workers installing steel ring beams and Oak timber lagging in a tunnel behind a large diameter tunnel boring machine under LaBranch Street in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Eby Construction placing concrete for a spread footing on the south side of Buffalo Bayou at Wayside Drive to ultimately support an 84 inch diameter steel water transmission line in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Calco Construction remove soil from the face of a 100 foot long 96 inch diameter hand mining tunnel using steel 4 flange bolted steel liner plate under Clinton Drive near Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas. They progressed about 10 feet per day.
48 inch diameter steel water line manifold pipe being installed at the City of Houston's Southwest Water Pump Station at Westpark and Newcastle in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Calco Construction prepare a closure section of 96 inch diameter precast concrete cylinder pipe in a tunnel access shaft on Clinton Drive in Houston, Texas. The tunnel shaft was constructed with flanged steel liner plate.
Workers with Texas Sterling Construction installing 24 inch diameter Class 52 Ductile Iron Pipe in an open cut trench along Rogerdale Road near Westpark Road. This was a Metropolitan Transit Authority Reconstruction Project. The pipe was internally and externally coated with polyurathane. The pipe joints were wrapped in the polyethelene baggies. It does not get any better than this in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Texas Sterling Construction testing the operation of this 24 inch butterfly valve before it gets buried along Rogerdale Road near Westpark in Houston, Texas. The 2 inch operating nuts turn counterclockwise to open the valve in Houston.These workers love what they do best!
Workers with Brown and Root Construction installing triple 10 foot x 10 foot precast concrete storm sewer boxes on Tidwell Road west of Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Brown and Root Construction removing forms from a concrete apron on 10 foot x 10 foot precast storm sewer boxes along Tidwell Road west of Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Brown and Root Construction installing wooden forms on spread footings supported on experimental drilled shafts mixed in place with in-situ soil, water and cement along Tidwell Road west of Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas. This was a Metropolitan Transit Authority Mobility Project.
Workers with Brown and Root Construction installing 108 inch diameter corrugated metal pipe outfalling into Halls Bayou at Tidwell Road and Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Brown and Root Construction installing forms for a bridge bent on Tidwell Road west of Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas.
Workers with Brown and Root Construction placing concrete on a bridge deck on the Tidwell Road Bridge at Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas.
Completed bridge structure over Halls Bayou on Wayside Drive at Tidwell Road in Houston, Texas. Bridge constructed by Brown and Root Construction.
Brown and Root Construction installing bridge beams on the Tidwell Road Bridge west of Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas.
Brown and Root Construction setting bridge beams over Halls Bayou on Wayside Drive at Tidwell Road in Houston, Texas.
Brown and Root Construction setting bridge beams over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks on Tidwell Road west of Wayside Drive in Houston, Texas.
The drilled shafts that are supporting these columns and bent caps were drilled in place with the in-situ soil, cement and water by Brown and Root Construction. R. G. Miller Engineers designed the bridges and the project was funded by the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County.
Workers with Brown and Root Construction installing forms brackets for bridge sidewalk along Tidwell Road near Forest Brook High School in Houston, Texas.
Biloxi Mississippi beachline before and after Hurricane Katrina.
A water main break at Navigation Street and Waco Street in Houston, Texas. City of Houston Water Maintenance Workers were able to get the water valves turned off and repair the line that day.
