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Friedrich Voss
Friedrich Voss was a German civil engineer, born in Calvörde, best known for the Rendsburg High Bridge of 1913 and the canal bridges at Holtenau and Hochdonn.
Friendship Bridge
The Friendship Bridge, also called the Danube Bridge, is a combined road and railway bridge across the Danube between Ruse, Bulgaria, and Giurgiu, Romania, opened in 1954.
Frontinus
Frontinus, or Sextus Julius Frontinus, was a Roman senator and general who served as water commissioner of Rome and wrote the surviving treatise on its aqueducts.
Fryingpan–Arkansas Project
The Fryingpan–Arkansas Project (Fry-Ark) is a Bureau of Reclamation project in Colorado, authorized in 1962, that diverts water under the Continental Divide into the Arkansas River basin for irrigation, municipal use, and hydropower.
Fuller Warren Bridge
The Fuller Warren Bridge carries Interstate 95 over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, named for Governor Fuller Warren; about 170,000 vehicles cross daily.
Fundamentals of Engineering Examination
The Fundamentals of Engineering Examination (FE exam) is a computer-based licensing test administered by NCEES, typically the first step toward becoming a professional engineer in the United States.
Fuse plug spillway
A fuse plug spillway is an auxiliary dam spillway whose erodible embankment behaves as a stable dam until a set reservoir level, then breaches at a controlled rate during extreme floods.
G. O. Wessenauer
G. O. Wessenauer, full name Gabriel Otto Wessenauer, was an American power and civil engineer who led the Tennessee Valley Authority power system and was a National Academy of Engineering member.
G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway
The G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway, known as the Shenhai Expressway, is a national expressway in China running along the coast from Shenyang, Liaoning, to Haikou, Hainan.
Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams
The Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams were a planned system of dams, locks, and hydroelectric plants on the Danube, agreed by Czechoslovakia and Hungary in 1977; only the Gabčíkovo portion was completed.
Gabion
A gabion, from the Italian gabbione meaning big cage, is a wire mesh basket filled with rock or soil and stacked into retaining walls, channel linings, and erosion controls.
Gadara Aqueduct
The Gadara Aqueduct, known in Arabic as the Qanat Fir'aun, was a Roman aqueduct about 170 km long that carried spring water to Gadara in northern Jordan.
Galata Bridge
Galata Bridge (Galata Köprüsü) is a 490 m double-deck bascule bridge in Istanbul carrying road, tram, and pedestrian traffic across the Golden Horn between Eminönü and Karaköy since 1992.
Ganga Ram (ਗੰਗਾ ਰਾਮ)
Sir Ganga Ram (1851–1927) was a Punjabi civil engineer and philanthropist of British India who built many Lahore landmarks and endowed hospitals in Lahore and New Delhi.
Garamantes
The Garamantes were an ancient Libyan people of the central Sahara whose kingdom, centered on the Wadi al-Ajal in Fazzan, Libya, flourished from about the first millennium BC.
Gargar (river)
Gargar (river), also Gargar canal or channel, is an artificial branch of the Karun at Shushtar, Iran, fed via the Mizan dam, still supplying the city and irrigating the 40,000 ha Mianab plain.
Gariep Dam
Gariep Dam, formerly the Hendrik Verwoerd Dam, is South Africa's largest dam by storage, a concrete arch dam on the Orange River begun in 1965 and storing water from 1971.
Garret P. Westerhoff
Garret P. Westerhoff is an American environmental engineer who spent 34 years at Malcolm Pirnie, rising to chairman and CEO, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Garrison Dam
Built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Garrison Dam is a rolled earthfill dam on the Missouri River near Riverdale, North Dakota, which was completed in 1955.
Garrison Diversion Unit
The Garrison Diversion Unit is a Bureau of Reclamation project in North Dakota, authorized in 1965 to divert Missouri River water for irrigation and water supply.
Gas Street Basin
Gas Street Basin is a canal basin in central Birmingham where the Worcester & Birmingham Canal meets the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line, once separated by the Worcester Bar.
Gaston Dam
Gaston Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Roanoke River in Halifax County, North Carolina, completed in 1963 by Virginia Electric and Power Company, impounding the 34-mile Lake Gaston.
Gate valve
A gate valve, also called a sluice valve, is a valve that starts or stops flow by sliding a flat gate across the passage, used fully open or fully closed.
Gatehouse (waterworks)
A gatehouse, also called a gate house or valve house, is a structure at a dam or reservoir housing the gates, valves, or pumps that regulate stored water.
Gateway Program (Northeast Corridor)
The Gateway Program, also called the Gateway Tunnel Project, is a set of rail projects on the 10-mile Northeast Corridor between Newark, New Jersey, and New York Penn Station.
Gatun Lake
Gatun Lake (Lago Gatún) is an artificial lake in Panama formed in 1913 as the central part of the Panama Canal, 26 meters above sea level.
Gatun Locks
The Gatun Locks are a three-step flight of paired chambers on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal, lifting ships 85 feet from sea level to Gatun Lake.
Gaunless Bridge
Gaunless Bridge was an iron railway bridge over the River Gaunless in County Durham, built 1823–1825 for the Stockton & Darlington Railway to George Stephenson's design.
Gavins Point Dam
Gavins Point Dam is an earth and chalk-fill dam on the Missouri River near Yankton, South Dakota, operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1955.
GB 50010
GB 50010 is China's national standard for the design of concrete structures, issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and first effective in 2011.