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Pub. Date
2015-2016.
Description
Series of short videos about Colorado Department of Transportation's effort to keep people safe on the roadways, to design and build I-70 east and help travelers deal with the vagaries of the I-70 mountain corridor.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Colorado Department of Transportation requires revegetation as part of road construction projects. The revegetation of previously disturbed areas from highway construction activities is a critical component to overall site storm water management strategy. Poor revegetation actions during and after construction can lead to difficulty in deactivating storm water construction permits (SCPs). CDOT's specifications for revegetation projects are discussed...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Interviews discussing CDOT's response to the September 2013 flood that damaged roads and bridges from mountain canyons to the eastern plains. Besides monitoring the damage to roads and bridges CDOT played a role in evacuating 18,000 people. The governor challenged CDOT to get the roads and bridges sufficiently repaired by December 2013 to allow safe travel. CDOT met the challenge and immediately began planning permanently rebuilt roads to handle a...
Series
Fast and Furious volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete. Hobbs asks Dom and Brian to help him take down an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers. In return, their crew will receive full pardons and be allowed to return home.
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Take a close look at some of the wildest bikes ever built. Close-up photos take you bike-side to check out the awesome details on 13 radical rides from Discovery Channel's American Chopper series. See how Paul Sr., Paulie, Mikey, and the other guys in the shop take an idea to the limit on their spectacular choppers, and find out what they really think about each other.
11) American chopper
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Follows custom chopper designers Paul Teutul and his son Paul Jr., as they design and fabricate motorcycles.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A feature documentary about Boston's first residential green building, and the skeptical workers who are asked to build it. From wheatboard cabinetry to recycled steel, bamboo flooring to dual-flush toilets, the Macallen Building is something different, a leader in the emerging field of environmentally friendly design. But Boston's steel-toed union workers aren't sure they like it. And when things on the building start to go wrong, the young developer...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
On a rainy August morning in 2018, a massive section of the Polcevera Bridge in Genoa, Italy, collapsed and killed 43 people, despite having withstood fifty years of traffic. All over American and Europe, thousands of bridges are listed as structurally deficient -- how can new technologies and engineering improvements make bridges safer?
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
An astronaut-in-training has to leave NASA (to save the family farm) but just can't give up on his dream of shooting into space, even if he has to do it all by himself. And that will of course get everyone up in arms, from his wife to his banker to the town gossips to the media and the Department of Homeland Security.
15) Are we done yet?
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Now married to Suzanne, Nick buys a suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids Lindsey and Kevin. But when his new home quickly becomes a costly "fixer upper," he finds himself at the mercy of an eccentric contractor, Nick's suburban dream soon becomes a nightmare.
Series
Fast and Furious volume 4
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Dom Toretto is a former street racer who, along with his crew, hijacks an oil truck out on the highway. Dom is living the life of a fugitive in the Dominican Republic, but after suffering a devastating personal loss, he is driven by revenge to return to Los Angeles to bring down an elusive drug smuggler. He is reunited with undercover FBI agent Brian O'Connor who let him go eight years earlier. Brian is also on the case of the drug smuggler and he...
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
The world is full of extraordinary buildings that soar and inspire; monumental marvels that have become cornerstones of our heritage and culture. The Great Pyramid of Giza, Angkor Wat, Stonehenge, The Acropolis, The Colosseum, Petra, The Forbidden City, Red Square, Buckingham Palace, The Eiffel Tower, Burj Khalifa, The Sydney Opera House, The White House, and more. Throughout six episodes we circle the globe, exploring the World's Greatest Icons:...
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Find out how fire trucks are built on a tour of Seagrave Fire Apparatus, the oldest continuously operating fire truck manufacturer in the US. Ever wonder where the first school bus came from or how they are actually made? Visit IC School Bus factory in Oklahoma to see the process of building one of these machines in a building that is more than a mile long! Learn how concrete mixers are made from the nuts and bolts to the rotating drum and more at...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The largest masonry dome on earth, Florence's cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, is a masterpiece of ingenuity and a source of mystery. Historians and engineers have long debated how its architect, kept the dome perfectly aligned and symmetrical as the sides rose and converged toward the center. To test the latest theories, a team of U.S. bricklayers will help build an experimental, mini-Duomo, using period tools and techniques.