Civil and water works

Iron Gate II Hydroelectric Power Station

Iron Gate II Hydroelectric Power Station, known in Romanian as Porțile de Fier II, is a joint Romanian-Serbian dam on the Danube River, built from 1977 and operating from the mid-1980s.

Irrigation

Irrigation, also called agricultural irrigation, is the artificial application of water to crops where rainfall falls short, by surface, sprinkler, or drip methods, practiced since ancient times.

Irrigation canal

An irrigation canal is an open artificial channel that carries water from a source such as a river or reservoir to agricultural fields, typically with a trapezoidal cross-section.

Irrigation ditch

Irrigation ditch, or acequia (from Arabic as-sāqiya), an artificial channel carrying water to cropland; community-governed acequias of Spain and New Mexico, types, hydrology, and ancient ditch law.

Irrigation in India

Irrigation in India is the supply of water to cropland through canals, tanks, and wells, with groundwater the largest source at about 60% of irrigated area and canals second at 25%.

Irrigation sprinkler

An irrigation sprinkler, also called a lawn sprinkler, is a device that sprays water into the air so it falls like rain onto crops or lawns.

An irrigation system is an engineered assembly that delivers water from a river, aquifer, or reservoir to crops in a controlled way, and accounts for roughly 70 percent of human freshwater withdrawals.

IS 1893

IS 1893 is the Indian Standard, Criteria for Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures, published by the Bureau of Indian Standards, first issued in 1962, with the 2016 edition in force.

IS 456

IS 456, current edition IS 456:2000, is the Indian Standard code of practice for plain and reinforced concrete and the principal reference for reinforced concrete design in India.

IS 800

IS 800 is the Indian Standard code of practice for general construction in steel, published by the Bureau of Indian Standards as the basic code for structural steel design in India.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859) was an English civil engineer, son of Marc Brunel, who built the Great Western Railway, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and the pioneering steamships Great Western, Great Britain, and Great Eastern.

Ismailia Canal

The Ismailia Canal, built in the 1860s to serve Suez Canal workers, is a freshwater canal in Egypt carrying Nile water across the eastern Delta to Ismailia.

Istanbul Canal

The Istanbul Canal (Kanal İstanbul) is a planned 45 km ship canal in Turkey connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, announced by Erdoğan in 2011.

Istanbul Technical University

Istanbul Technical University (İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, İTÜ), Turkey's first technical university, founded 1773 as the Imperial School of Naval Engineering; 13 faculties, 5 campuses, about 37,000 students, QS 2027 rank #=279.

Isthmian Canal Commission

The Isthmian Canal Commission (1904–1914) was the United States government body, appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, that built the Panama Canal and governed the Canal Zone until 1914.

Itai-itai disease (イタイイタイ病)

Itai-itai disease (イタイイタイ病), literally "ouch-ouch" disease, is chronic cadmium poisoning from polluted river water that caused severe bone pain in Toyama, Japan, recognized as a pollution disease in 1968.

Itaipu Dam

Itaipu Dam, also known as Itaipú, is a 14,000 MW hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River at the Brazil–Paraguay border, the single plant that has generated the most energy in history since 1984.

Iustiniani Pons

Iustiniani Pons (Bridge of Justinian, Sangarius Bridge, Turkish Justinianos Köprüsü) is a Late Roman arched bridge built by Emperor Justinian I across the Sangarius River at Serdivan, Sakarya, Turkey, with an original span of about 430 m.

J. Barry Cooke

J. Barry Cooke (James Barry Cooke, 1915–2005) was an American civil engineer whose consulting in over 20 countries drove worldwide acceptance of the concrete face rockfill dam.

Jack-up barge

A jack-up barge is a mobile marine platform with legs lowered to the seabed so its hull can be raised above the water as a stable work platform.

Jackson L. Durkee

Jackson Leland Durkee (1922–2007) was an American structural engineer who spent 29 years at Bethlehem Steel, originating the prefabricated parallel-wire strand system for suspension-bridge main cables.

Jacksonville Expressway Authority

The Jacksonville Expressway Authority was a Florida public body created in 1955 to build Jacksonville's expressways and toll bridges, including the Fuller Warren and Hart bridges.

Jacques Cartier Bridge

The Jacques Cartier Bridge (pont Jacques-Cartier) is a five-lane steel cantilever bridge across the St. Lawrence River, linking Montreal with Longueuil on the South Shore.

Jacques-Gabriel Bridge

The Jacques-Gabriel Bridge (Pont Jacques-Gabriel) is an 18th-century masonry arch bridge carrying the road across the Loire at Blois, France, built between 1717 and 1724.

Jaíba Project

The Jaíba Project (Projeto Público de Irrigação Jaíba) is a public irrigation scheme in northern Minas Gerais, Brazil, between the São Francisco and Verde Grande rivers, planned from the 1950s for 100,000 hectares.

Jakarta flood control and Great Garuda

Jakarta flood control protects Indonesia's sinking capital through polders, pumps, and dikes, while the Great Garuda was a proposed bird-shaped 35 km sea wall across Jakarta Bay.

Jal Jeevan Mission (जल जीवन मिशन)

Jal Jeevan Mission (जल जीवन मिशन), also called Har Ghar Jal, is an Indian government program launched in 2019 to provide tap water to every rural household.

James B. Coulter

James B. Coulter was an American sanitary engineer and Maryland's Secretary of Natural Resources from 1971 to 1983. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.

James Brindley

James Brindley (1716–1772) was an English civil engineer, the leading canal engineer of the early Industrial Revolution, who built the Bridgewater Canal and about 350 miles of waterways.