CIVIL ENGINEERING
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CIVIL ENGINEERING
Historic hints. Irrigation channels of the River Nile. Strategic importance of Petra (today Jordan). Rome and the enormous civil engineering works. The influence of the Roman roads. Roman constructions still standing today (the Pantheon, the Ponte Fabricious, the Aqueduct of Segovia in Spain)
The Adrian’s Wall in Great Britain. The Great Wall of China. Roads and paths built by the Incas.
Bridges. The first bridges built. Rope bridges. Emblematic bridges.
Roads and Motorways. The first motorway network built in Germany prior to World War II.
Ports and Airports. Polders and Canals. Tunnels and Railways.
Other infrastructures.
Importance of Civil Engineering in our lives.
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- Historic hints: irrigation channels of the River Nile. Strategic importance of Petra (today Jordan) as stopover on the trade route which linked Arabia and Egypt with Syria.
- Rome and the enormous civil engineering works
- Use and improvement of concrete by the Romans. The influence of the Roman roads.
- Roman constructions still standing today (the Pantheon, the Ponte Fabricious, the Aqueduct of Segovia in Spain)
- The Adrian’s Wall in great Britain
- The Great Wall of China
- Roads and Paths built by the Incas
- Bridges “roads in the air” represent progress
- The first bridges built
- Rope bridges
- The Industrial Revolution and the bridges
- Emblematic bridges: New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Lisbon’s Vasco de Gama bridge, Sydney Habour bridge, Tower bridge in London
- The Millau Viaduct in France
- The “Puente Colgante” in Portugalete, Bilbao declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO
- Roads and Motorways. The first motorway network.built in Germany prior to World War II
- The Karakorum Motorway
- The Pan-American Highway
- Ports and Airports. Types of ports.
- The busiest ports in the world.
- Polders and Canals. Meaning of “polder”. Dyke systems. Navigation canals.
- Ferdinand de Lesseps. The Suez Canal in Egypt. Verdi’s tribute “Aida” (opera)
- The Panama Canal
- Tunnels and Railways. The Euro tunnel. The new San Gotthard twin Tynnel between Switzerland and Italy.
- The tunnelling machinery.
- The trans-Siberian railway
- High-speed trains. Japanese “Bullet Train”
- Subterranean railway networks
- Other Infrastructures. Hydroelectric stations.
- The electricity network
- Waste and drinking water networks
- Oleoducts and gas pipelines
- New networks communication centres : towers and satellites built
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