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Consolidation grouting
Consolidation grouting is a ground-improvement technique in which cement grout is injected at low pressure into voids and cracks in shallow foundation rock, strengthening it to carry a structure, most commonly a dam.
Constantinople Convention of 1888
The Constantinople Convention of 1888 is a multilateral treaty, signed by nine powers, guaranteeing the Suez Canal free passage for all vessels in war and peace.
Constructability
Constructability is the optimal use of construction knowledge and experience in planning, design, procurement, and field operations to achieve overall project objectives, a concept defined by the Construction Industry Institute in 1986.
Construction and erection of cable-stayed bridges
Construction of cable-stayed bridges erects the deck by balanced cantilever, incremental launching, or temporary supports, with stay cables tensioned in stages and construction-stage analysis controlling geometry and cable forces.
Construction dewatering
Construction dewatering is the temporary lowering of the groundwater table around an excavation so below-ground work stays stable and dry, using methods like sump pumping, wellpoints, and deepwells.
Construction engineering
Construction engineering, also called construction operations, is the branch of engineering that applies analysis and design to the construction process itself, from plans and specifications through facility completion.
Construction Industry Institute
The Construction Industry Institute (CII) is a consortium of owners, contractors, and academics researching capital project delivery, founded in 1983 at The University of Texas at Austin.
Construction management at risk
Construction management at risk (CM at Risk) is a project delivery method in which an owner hires a construction manager during design to build the project at risk.
Construction of Brasília
The construction of Brasília built Brazil's new capital on the Planalto Central between 1957 and 1960, from plans by Lúcio Costa and buildings by Oscar Niemeyer.
Construction Partners, Inc.
Construction Partners, Inc. is a Dothan, Alabama-based civil infrastructure company that builds, repairs, and maintains roadways across the Sunbelt, growing mainly by acquiring local paving and asphalt companies.
Consuegra Dam
Consuegra Dam (presa romana de Consuegra), Roman buttress dam on the Amarguillo river near Consuegra, Toledo, Spain; about 590-660 m long, 4.8 m high, 1st-4th century AD, longest Roman dam conserved in Hispania, declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1992.
Continuing professional development in civil engineering
Continuing professional development (CPD) in civil engineering is recorded learning activity that keeps UK engineers competent, mandatory for all Engineering Council registrants with no minimum hours.
Contra Dam
The Contra Dam, also called the Verzasca Dam, is a 220 m high arch dam on the Verzasca River in Ticino, Switzerland, built from 1960 to 1965.
Convention respecting the free navigation of international rivers and canals
The Convention respecting the free navigation of international rivers and canals is a 1921 League of Nations treaty guaranteeing free navigation on designated international waterways.
Cook Strait tunnel proposal
The Cook Strait tunnel proposal is a recurring suggestion for a rail or road crossing under Cook Strait between New Zealand's two islands, never formally studied.
Copasa
Copasa (Companhia de Saneamento de Minas Gerais) is a Brazilian water supply and sanitation company serving most municipalities of Minas Gerais, founded in 1963 and privatized in June 2026.
Copeton Dam
Copeton Dam is a rock-fill dam on the Gwydir River in northern New South Wales, Australia, completed in 1973 as the main irrigation storage for the Gwydir Valley.
Copper tubing
Copper tubing, also known as copper pipe, is seamless tube of nearly pure copper used to convey water, gas, refrigerant, and medical gases in plumbing and cooling systems.
Corinth Canal
The Corinth Canal (Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου) is a sea-level ship canal in Greece connecting the Saronic and Corinthian gulfs across the Isthmus of Corinth, built between 1882 and 1893.
Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge
The Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge is a 460-foot timber covered bridge built in 1866 over the Connecticut River between Cornish, New Hampshire, and Windsor, Vermont, the longest wooden bridge in the United States.
Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum
The Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum is a compilation of Latin treatises on Roman land surveying, preserved in a sixth-century manuscript, with Frontinus and Hyginus Gromaticus among its authors.
Corrosion inhibitor
A corrosion inhibitor is a chemical compound that, at low concentrations, slows metal corrosion, in civil engineering chiefly an admixture protecting steel reinforcement in concrete from chloride attack.
Costain Group
Costain Group PLC is a British infrastructure solutions company founded in 1865, listed in London since 1943, whose projects include the Thames Barrier, the Channel Tunnel, and London Bridge station.
Coulomb earth pressure theory
Coulomb earth pressure theory, formulated by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb in 1773, calculates the lateral force soil exerts on a retaining wall using a sliding wedge analysis.
Coupled shear wall
A coupled shear wall is a structural system of two or more reinforced concrete wall piers connected at each floor level by short, deep coupling beams.
Courtright Reservoir
Courtright Reservoir, also called Courtright Lake, is a reservoir in Fresno County, California, impounded by Courtright Dam and operated by PG&E as the upper reservoir of the Helms Pumped Storage Project.
Covered anaerobic lagoon
Covered anaerobic lagoon: an earthen waste-treatment basin with a flexible cover that traps biogas from anaerobic digestion of manure or wastewater. Also called covered lagoon digester (CLD); low-cost, unheated, suited to under-3%-solids liquid waste in warm climates.
Covered bridge
A covered bridge, also called a kissing bridge, is a timber-truss bridge with a roof and siding enclosing the roadway to protect the timbers from rot and weather.
Covered bridges in Canada
Covered bridges in Canada are timber truss bridges with roofs and siding; about 140 of an estimated 1,400 survive, mostly in Quebec and New Brunswick.
Covered bridges in Vermont
Covered bridges in Vermont, also listed as Vermont covered bridges, are roofed timber truss bridges built from 1820; about 100 survive, most still carrying road traffic.