Sentence examples for caisson up from inspiring English sources

Mr. Reagan's body will arrive in Washington on Wednesday from California and proceed by horse-drawn caisson up Constitution Avenue to the Capitol Rotunda, where he will lie in state through Thursday.

The results of calculation and analysis have been performed to verify the probability of the open caisson floating up due the action of the hydrostatic load.

They will then join roughly a third of the remains on caissons and proceed up Broadway to the burial ground.

The raw, almost brutal granite blocks that make up the caissons of the bridge have been left exposed.

As a caisson descended, the chain coiled up at the bottom of the lift.

At an old pier in Manhattan, the hotelier André Balazs is transforming a rubble-strewn rooftop into a health spa and beach, while in the enormous hollow cement caissons beneath the Hudson River that hold up the pier, a rock-climbing wall is being created.

This chapter opens up with brief history of Caissons.

The two caissons are 6.5 m wide, and can hold up to four 20 m canal boats.

"I'll get $400 for wrecking a caisson and $150 for getting blown up.

Each caisson was designed to withstand a bridge strike of a ship weighing up to 65,000 tonnes and travelling up to 18.5 kph The towers are about 61 m high, and it took a team of around 56 to assemble the bridge structure.

Although it was comparatively easy to remove for maintenance and had the further advantage that a spare caisson could be kept in reserve in case of damage, the tie-up of capital is usually found unnecessarily expensive merely as an insurance premium.