Pittsburgh’s Heritage Buildings
I was recently offered the opportunity of being a guest lecturer to our current Senior Design class. I immediately accepted, and chose to base it on the chapter on buildings that I wrote for the book “Engineering Pittsburgh”, published in 2018 by our local American Society of Civil Engineers Section. There were engineers long before the term civil engineering was coined, primarily engaged in supporting military activities. It is not surprising that the first major engineering project in this area was a military one, the construction of Fort Pitt in 1758. Following General John Forbes’ successful campaign that year, Captain Harry…