Top 10 Most Impressive Civil Engineering Projects

Great Pyramid of Giza: This incredible creation consisted of two and a third million stone blocks, which required the constant labor of thirty thousand laborers to build.
Great Wall of China: What many people do not know about this enormous five thousand and a half mile long wall is that the mortar used in its construction is made of rice flour.
Aqueduct of Segovia: These amazing aqueducts are made without the use of mortar, and are so well preserved that it is still in use today.
Brooklyn Bridge: Was the first suspension bridge to use steel in its cables.
Panama Canal: This man made canal was designed to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to provide trade ships with passage between North and South America.
Hoover Dam: Named one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the dam generates four billion kilowatt hours of electricity for use.
Golden Gate Bridge: This historic wonder connects San Francisco to the rest of the bay, and is made up of six hundred thousand rivets.
English Channel Tunnel: A thirty-one mile long tunnel, the English Channel Tunnel currently contains the longest portion of any tunnel housed under the sea.
Burj Khalifa: Interestingly enough, one of the biggest setbacks to face the construction of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, was one hundred and sixty kilometer per hour winds that required special testing to determine the safety of the construction material.
Qingdao Haiwan Bridge: It is currently the longest bridge in the world and was specially designed to withstand earthquakes and typhoons.

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Keep Calm..

Let him not be grasping nor have his mind preoccupied with … receiving perquisites, but let him with dignity keep up his position by establishing a good reputation. No work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility.
                                                                                                                                                   – Vitruvius

From the laying out of a line of a tunnel to its final completion, the work may be either a series of experiments made at the expense of the proprietors of the project, or a series of judicious applications of the results of previous experience.
                                                                                                                                             – HS Drinker

Gypsum Application through Machine

The old method to apply Gypsum manually took hours of labor and also had poor durability due to manual errors. Now with automation in this field, application through machine is gaining wide spread popularity as its not only faster but also cheaper in long run as very less labor is required.

Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.
                                                                                                          – Dr AR Dykes

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible
                                                                                                           – Freeman Dyson