New lawn really opens up the only Boston building ever cited by angry parents

Angry parents? I feel like this should ring a bell, but it doesn't.

Like 15 years?

of my Irish grandmother who lived on Cummins Highway. "Lovey, my sister worked as a scrubwoman at the Peter Bent Brigham for years and loved every second of it".

Yup, it really is just the old townies who still call it the Peter Bent Brigham.

Righteous !

Lived there back in 2011, can't believe what a huge difference they've made...
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How's this for some engineering......
Hydraulics Facilitate Repairs on a 12,000-Ton Moveable Roof

The day after the Milwaukee Brewers finished their final game of the season at Miller Park in September of 2006, a different team went into action. This time the coaches were engineers, and the first-string players were millwrights, ironworkers, operating engineers and laborers.

The task for which they had been preparing was a major repair job on the stadium’s movable roof: replacement of the ten bogies (powered carriages) on which the five moveable sections of the roof are carried. The 12,000-ton roof is designed in a fan shape, with each of five movable sections pivoted at its home-plate end and riding on two bogies at its wide (outfield) end 600 feet away.

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The 22-foot long original equipment bogies, two at each of the far corners of each fan-shaped roof section, were fitted with pairs of double-flanged wheels to ride on an eight-inch-wide circular track approximately 138 feet above ground level. Three-phase power for the bogie drive motors is fed out along each roof section from the home plate pivot end, eliminating any need for sliding contacts.
The two double-flanged wheels on each bogie were arranged to ride the single track in an in-line fashion. Additional safety is provided by guide rollers that follow single tracks mounted on both sidewalls of the main track bed.
The original equipment bogies proved inadequate for their massive burden, and the day after the Brewers’ September 2006 home finale, the roof had to be left in a partially open position when a bogie guide roller shattered. Additionally, a drawback of the old bogies was that their wheel faces were cylindrical. “The problem was in the cylindrical wheel with a relatively wide bearing surface where the outside of the wheel wanted to travel farther than the inside, about 5.5 inches in the worst case. It was this anomaly that may have caused the snapping sound as the bogies rolled along the rail,” explains Jim Ronning, a consulting engineer responsible for specifying the jacking arrangements.
“The wheels on the new bogies have spherical rolling surfaces to allow for minor bogie tilt, and the wheel axles are turned such that the bogie naturally follows the curved track,” says Ronning. “Additionally, the new bogie design employs four wheels arranged in two pairs, instead of the previous two-wheel design.” The new bogies are 24 feet long and each weighs either 49 or 66 tons, depending upon its location. They are powered by 60-hp motors via gear boxes and massive roller chains.

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