London’s £4.5 billion super sewer is open for business
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The unique undersea tunnels that link the Faroe Islands
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Fehmarn Belt tunnel being built with innovative engineering is final step of project to connect Denmark – and the Nordics as a whole – to the rest of Europe
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How to build an Arctic airport – why airport construction in Greenland is (quite literally) booming
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Danish King Frederik X inaugurated the first element of a future eighteen-kilometre tunnel under the Baltic Sea – Fehmarn Belt fixed link will slash travel times between Scandinavia and Central Europe
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Stockholm is in a race to fix its traffic congestion – but will this $4bn super-deep road tunnel under the Swedish capital work
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Norwegian bridge collapsed ten years after it was built – all because designers focused too much on making it look good
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‘Green roads’ are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods
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Where does grounded electricity actually go?
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Camp Century - The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
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Who really wants megastructure cites?
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The ground is deforming, and buildings aren't ready. First study to quantify effects of subsurface climate change on civil infrastructure
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How Chicago solves its overheating problem
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The world’s longest suspension bridge is history in the making. After 2,000 years of political and technical hitches, Italy says it’s finally ready to connect Sicily to the mainland.
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Engineering the world’s most complex office building, in Antwerp, Belgium
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Bergen is gearing up to open the world's longest purpose-built pedestrian and bicycle tunnel – 2.9km tunnel takes 30-45 minutes to walk through
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Why some roadways are made of styrofoam
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China’s global mega-projects are falling apart
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The insane scale of Europe's new mega-tunnel – Denmark is building a record-breaking tunnel to Germany
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Denmark and Germany now building the world's longest immersed tunnel
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Wooden bridge over a river in southern Norway collapsed early Monday – a similar nearby bridge, also made of glued laminated timber, collapsed in 2016
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The nuts and bolts of siting and building power lines
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Inside the first undersea roundabout – one of the world's most remote construction projects can be found on the Faroe Islands
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Going nuclear to desalinate seawater
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Turkey has built the longest suspension bridge in the world
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Funchal Airport, on the island of Madeira, was too short for modern commercial airliners but there was nowhere to extend to. The solution is one of the greatest civil engineering projects of our time.
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What are the differences between the Autobahnen and the Interstate Highway System?
I know there are some Germans on Tildes, figure at least one of y’all might know. How does a typical Autobahn differ from a typical Interstate in design and construction? How often is repair work...
I know there are some Germans on Tildes, figure at least one of y’all might know. How does a typical Autobahn differ from a typical Interstate in design and construction? How often is repair work done and how long does it last? What work would be required to upgrade an Interstate to Autobahn standards?
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Can you pump sewage? When it comes to wastewater, what goes down must come up again
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The Thames Barrier must never fail. Here's why it doesn't.
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How retaining walls work, and why they collapse
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Construction work has begun on the German side of an underwater tunnel connecting Germany and Denmark – €7 billion project set to be completed by 2029
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How road barriers stopped killing drivers
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Undersea rail-road tunnel between Denmark and Germany – Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link explained
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Skellefteå has wooden schools, bridges, even car parks – we visit Sweden to see what a climate-conscious future looks like
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US civil engineers bent the rules to give New Orleans extra protection from hurricanes
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Solar domes could desalinate seawater at a commercial scale
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How sewer pipes work (feat. fake poop)
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Tokyo's subway system
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Tens of thousands of large dams are reaching the end of their expected lifespans, leading to a dramatic rise in failures and posing a serious threat to hundreds of millions living downstream
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Faroe Islands are set to open an under-sea roundabout – the underwater tunnels connect the islands of Streymoy and Eysturoy in a network some 11km long
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The new $45 billion metro system under construction beneath Paris
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What is a tuned mass damper?
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Environmentalists have held protests outside a court that is deciding on a tunnel link between Germany and Denmark – they say the project is flawed on many levels
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What is a culvert?
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Construction of the world's longest immersed tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany will begin in January next year
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EU state aid regulators clear Danish financial support for a rail-road link between Denmark and Germany
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Where Manhattan’s grid plan came from
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City Builders EP4 - Get people thinking
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Can bacteria help us prevent salt damage to concrete roads and bridges?
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China to open mega-bridge and tunnel: Thirty-four miles across the water
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