The hidden engineering of floating bridges
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Meeting client requirements of a 200-year design life for the Kruunuvuori Bridge in Finland demanded ingenuity in structural engineering and material choices
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How sewage recycling works
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How immersed tube tunnels are built
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What caused the power outage in Portugal and Spain?
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How Hoover Dam works
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Norway is building the world's longest and deepest underwater tunnel – Rogfast will be about 26.7km long and 390m at the deepest point
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Dubai Creek Tower | Abandoned
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In the south of Denmark, a mega project is under construction in the form of a giant tunnel under the Baltic Sea, linking the country to Germany
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What’s inside a manhole?
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The first stripy wind turbine ever turned on: It has achieved a very strange effect
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A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects
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DuSable Bridge, Chicago: Is this dangerous infrastructure decay? Should I report it and where?
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La Salle Causeway lift bridge
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Which power plant does my electricity come from?
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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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The can opener. Engineering to solve human fallibility. (Spoiler: It didn’t totally work.)
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How French drains work
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Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines
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How to build an AI data center
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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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How bridge engineers design against ship collisions
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Connecting solar to the grid is harder than you think
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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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How do fish ladders work?
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GM’s hydrogen ‘power cubes’ will be used in cement mixers and terminal tractors
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Why railroad tracks don't need expansion joints
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The engineering challenges of Grand Paris Express, Europe’s largest transport infrastructure project
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How the gas turbine conquered the electric power industry
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Japan uses blue instead of green on traffic lights
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Do droughts make floods worse?
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How Japan's maglev train works
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Where does grounded electricity actually go?
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Canada’s $30bn gamble to become an energy superpower
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Philadelphia I-95 bridge collapse explained
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Why did nuclear flop in Britain?
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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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Why is desalination so difficult? An overview of seawater desalination: Removing salt to make drinkable water from the ocean.
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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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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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