Construction starts with planning, design, and financing; and continues until the project is built and ready for use. Large-scale construction requires collaboration across multiple disciplines. A project manager normally manages the job, and a construction manager, design engineer, construction engineer or architect supervises it.
Even so, it is worth waiting to see. Grand erupts from a pool of water making it a fountain-type geyser as opposed to Old Faithful which is a cone-type geyser. Grandâs interval is usually around 8-12 hours, its height about 150-180 feet and its duration is about 10-12 minutes. It will often stop after about 9 minutes and then restart after a minute or so.
At ground level the sides are 55.5 feet (666 inches) long and the monument is 555.5 feet high. The 10 to one ratio between the sidelength and the height was modeled after ancient Egyptian obelisks that have this same ratio. The 555.5 foot height of the monument converts to 6666 inches. Given the length of 20.6 inches for the ancient Egyptian cubit, the monument is 323.6 cubits high: 6666 divided by 20.6 = 323.6 323.6 divided by Ï (1.618) equals 200. The height of the monument is equal to 200 ancient Egyptian cubits times Ï.