Identifier: architectenginee2210sanf (find matches)
Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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e. is faintlyshown in the picture. The city engineer of San Luis ( Ibispo is Mi GiStory. The high-water mark at a projected bridge crossing is often such thatthe distance from the finished roadway to the bottom line of the floor of thebridge is limited, as was the condition on the San Luis ( tbispo bridge. Thearch type becomes undesirable owing to the greal reduction >\ waterway.With this limitation, the flat slab type, such as was used in the town ofRoss, becomes an ideal structure, both structurally and economically. Theaverage cost of the Ross bridges, including the ornamental structure withbracketed sidewalks shown in figure 4, was less than $2.50 per square foolof roadway. Within the past month excavations have begun on l Oakland avenue, atLinda avenue, Piedmont. Cal., for the piers of a large reinforce.1 concretebridge to be erected by the city of Piedmont. The contractors for the work-are the Rickon, Ehrhart Company of San I fhe engineer is John 48 The Architect and Engineer
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F:^. 4—Reinfo . i e Girder Bridge, City of RJohn B. Leonard, Engine

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