Safety Awards

Some of these are construction related so I let this slip into my blog plus it is pretty darn funny to see. This came from a email going around and I loved it. So starting from the bottom up, here are the safety awards of the year!

17th place - The delivery man

16th place - The grinder's face shield

15th place - Scaffolding

 14th place - The welder's mask

 13th place - The baggage cart

(personally I think this was a joke)

 12th place - The painters

 11th place - Shipyard Mechanics

 10th place - HVAC crew

(not sure if this is work or a suicide attempt...)

 9th place - The hard hat

 8th place - The Biological weapons expert

 7th place - Weapons of Mass Destruction warehouse

 6th place - Truck mechanic

 5th place - The electrician

 4th place - The fork lifters

(personally I thought this was just clever)

 3rd place - The power company

 2nd place - The airplane mechanic

 And 1st place - City Council maintenance team!

 Just a bonus - The rifle range helper

So credit goes to whoever started this email but I thought it was pretty darn hilarious, so kudos to that person.

Dallas Spaghetti Bowl

November 2012 we went to Dallas/Fortworth over Thanksgiving and there are some pretty cool roadways there, there is also a lot of construction making some really neat bridges that go on for a half mile or more. On Thanksgiving day we went on a drive and found this spaghetti bowl type of interchange in the Greater Dallas area, it was so bizarre because this was miles away from downtown Dallas and so I don't understand why they needed all of these roads but it was pretty cool to see so check out this video we took.

I thought it was pretty neat how they also included the artwork on the columns so that it had some aesthetic appeal. Glad I got to see this.

10 Tallest Super Structures

I received an article from the ASCE smart brief that mentioned the world's 10 tallest buildings and it is amazing to see these monsters so have a look below.

1. Number one goes to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai at 2,717 feet, it is 745 feet taller than the second tallest building! It best enjoy its 1st place position though because once the Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia is finished it is rumored to exceed this giant. 

2. Next up are the Abraj Al-Bait Towers in Mecca, Saudi Arabia at 1,972 feet, but it is the world's tallest hotel in the world. 

3. Taipei 101 with 101 stories above ground and 5 stories below it is 1,667 feet tall.

4. The Shanghai World Financial Center in a close 4th at 1,614 feet.

5. The International Commerce Center in Hong Kong hits 1,588 feet.

6. Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur soars to 1,483 feet.

7. The Zifeng tower in Greenland stands an even 1,480 feet tall.

8. Willis Tower (Sears Tower) in Chicago is 1,450 feet high.

9. Ninth is the Jin Mai tower in Shanghai at 1,364 feet tall.

10. Finally the tenth tallest building is the Empire State Building at 1,250 feet in the Big Apple, although this held the title for the world's tallest building for nearly 40 years before these other nine massive structures over took it in height, and soon it will be number eleven once the World Trade Center is completed in New York.

Wow at the pace that these supertall structures are being erected we can only anticipate when a mile high building will be among us.