Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...roof. This structural concrete is the skeleton of the buildings. It is poured in a semi-liquid state into wooden forms, and is reinforced by steel rods. The foundation walls, piers, interior columns and floors are all made of this material. Up to the present 27,000 cubic yards of concrete and 2,600 tons of steel reinforcing have been used. Including the library buildings, the 27,000 cubic yards is 73 per cent. of the whole amount of concrete which will be used...
Work is progressing rapidly on the heat subway which is to run from the Freshman dormitories to the Yard. About 150 men have been working on it since April 28, and 3000 cubic yards of earth have been excavated. The subway consists of a re-enforced concrete tube, 8 feet square and about 1200 feet long, extending from the Freshman dormitories to Holyoke place; and from there up Linden street above the Park street subway and into the Yard...
...construction of the subway more than half a million cubic yards of material have been excavated. In the concrete construction 200,000 cubic yards of cement, 350,000 tons of crushed stone, and 7,000 tons of steel have been used between the bridge and the Murray street yards. The largest number of men employed on the work at any one time was 4,000, the average force being about...