WHAT WE DO
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GALLERY
Lets face it, site photos can be a bit dull. Boiler-plates, leaky pumps, rusty fans. Being part of the team sorting these kinds of problems out is what excites us here at PMCE, but rarely is there a reason for these images to be in the public domain.
The images below are some of the reasons that site visits and surveys can be transformed from important fact finding missions into engineering inspiration. They also contain some historic or interesting engineering curiosities.
CIBSE GUIDE H
CIBSE Guide H: Building Control Systems is one of the lesser thumbed guides, but it's subject matter cannot be underestimated.
Now imagine that somebody counted the occurrence of each word in the book, parsed it for boring ones like "the", and, "and", then put the common words together in a rectangle, making each of them bigger or smaller depending on how frequently it appeared... ...imagine.
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
This pneumatic valve is not a museum piece, by virtue of the fact that is still in operation on site in Glasgow. For all the wonders of modern tech allowing electronic control, micro-bore pipework filled with compressed air, (nicely installed, too), is a marvellous example of mechanical engineering.
The ancient insulation wasn't doing much, though!
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
The thousands of tonnes of steel used to make this scaffolding frame allowed conservation experts to clean the writing at the top of the dome.
The 2 foot tall words can be read by those attending their graduation from the University of Edinburgh at McEwan Hall.
HONG KONG
A housing association building some massive towers. It's a single street in the Sau Mau Ping district. 18000 apartments in 22 blocks, being built simultaneously, is quite a scene!