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Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is an 87-mile waterway in southern England linking the Thames at Reading with the Avon at Bath, completed in 1810 and restored by 2003.
Kenneth E. Stinson
Kenneth E. Stinson is an American civil engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who led the Omaha construction firm Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc. as chairman and CEO.
Kern Island Canal
The Kern Island Canal is an irrigation canal in Kern County, California, diverting Kern River water south of Bakersfield to farmland on the former Kern Lake bed.
Khadakwasla Dam (खडकवासला धरण)
Khadakwasla Dam (खडकवासला धरण) is a composite masonry-and-earth gravity dam on the Mutha River near Pune, Maharashtra, and the main source of the city's drinking water.
Khalij al-Masri
Khalij al-Masri (al-Khalig al-Masri, الخليج المصري), the Egyptian Canal of Cairo, remnant of the ancient Nile-Red Sea canal, reopened by Amr ibn al-As in 644 CE, filled in 1897-1898 and replaced by Port Said Street.
Kiel Canal
Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal): 98.7 km German ship canal from Brunsbüttel on the Elbe to Kiel-Holtenau on the Baltic, opened 1895, the world's most-used artificial waterway, saving ships the route around Denmark.
Kiewit Corporation
Kiewit Corporation, also known as Peter Kiewit Sons, is an employee-owned construction and engineering firm founded in 1884 in Omaha, Nebraska, where it remains headquartered.
Kilsby Tunnel
Kilsby Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the London & Birmingham Railway near Kilsby, Northamptonshire, England, engineered by Robert Stephenson and built between 1835 and 1838.
King Abdullah Canal
The King Abdullah Canal (KAC) is Jordan's main water conveyor, a 110 km canal in the Jordan Valley built as the East Ghor Canal between 1959 and 1987.
King Fahd Causeway (جسر الملك فهد)
King Fahd Causeway (جسر الملك فهد), also known as the Saudi-Bahrain Causeway, is a 25-kilometer bridge and causeway link between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, opened in 1986.
King Fahd Dam (سد الملك فهد)
The King Fahd Dam (سد الملك فهد) is a concrete gravity dam on Wadi Bishah in southwestern Saudi Arabia, completed in 1997 to recharge the aquifer and control floods.
King post
A king post is the central vertical member of a simple truss, running from the apex to the middle of the tie beam, and names the oldest truss form.
King's Cross fire
The King's Cross fire, also known as the Kings Cross Underground fire, was a fatal 1987 blaze at King's Cross station in London that killed 31 people.
Kingsway tramway subway
The Kingsway tramway subway, also known as the Kingsway tram tunnel, was an underground tram tunnel in central London, opened in 1906 and closed in 1952.
Kinzua Bridge
Kinzua Bridge, also called the Kinzua Viaduct, was a 300-foot-tall railroad trestle in Pennsylvania, built in 1882 and partially destroyed by a tornado in 2003.
Kizuna Bridge
The Kizuna Bridge is a 1.36-kilometer road bridge across the Mekong River at Kampong Cham, Cambodia, the first bridge in the country to cross the Mekong, opening in 2001.
Klamath Project
The Klamath Project is a Bureau of Reclamation irrigation project serving about 240,000 acres of cropland in southern Oregon and northern California, marked by endangered-species water conflicts since 2001.
Koralm Railway
The Koralm Railway (German: Koralmbahn) is a 130-kilometer electrified high-speed railway between Graz and Klagenfurt in Austria, opened to passengers on 14 December 2025 and cutting the journey to 41 minutes.
Korea Water Resources Corporation
Korea Water Resources Corporation (한국수자원공사), known as K-water, is a South Korean state-owned corporation that develops and manages water resources, operating multipurpose dams since 1967.
Koror–Babeldaob Bridge
The Koror–Babeldaob Bridge, also known as the KB Bridge, connects Koror and Babeldaob islands in Palau; the original 1977 span collapsed in 1996 and Japan funded a replacement opened in 2002.
Kosciuszko Bridge
The Kosciuszko Bridge carries the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (I-278) over Newtown Creek between Brooklyn and Queens. Two cable-stayed spans, opened in 2017 and 2019, replaced a 1939 bridge.
Kotri Barrage
Kotri Barrage, also known as the Ghulam Muhammad Barrage, is a gate-controlled barrage across the Indus River near Hyderabad, Pakistan, built between 1950 and 1955.
Koyna Dam
The Koyna Dam is a gravity dam on the Koyna River in Satara district, Maharashtra, completed in 1961 to anchor a 1,960 MW hydroelectric project.
Kra Isthmus land bridge and tunnel proposals
The Kra Isthmus land bridge is a proposed Thai logistics corridor moving cargo by rail and road between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand instead of a canal.
Krämerbrücke
The Krämerbrücke (Merchants' Bridge) is a medieval stone bridge completed in 1325 in Erfurt, Germany, lined with inhabited half-timbered houses along its full 125-meter span, the longest inhabited bridge in Europe.
Krishna Raja Sagara (ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜಸಾಗರ)
Krishna Raja Sagara, or KRS dam, is a masonry dam on the Kaveri river at Kannambadi, Karnataka, India, built under Sir M. Visvesvaraya between 1911 and 1932.
Kurenivka tragedy
The Kurenivka tragedy (Куренівська трагедія) was a 1961 disaster in Kyiv in which a dam burst at Babyn Yar, sending a wave of mud onto the Kurenivka district and killing hundreds.
Kurobe Dam
Kurobe Dam is a 186 m concrete arch dam on the Kurobe River in Tateyama, Japan, built 1956 to 1963 and the tallest dam in Japan.
Kyaukse irrigation system
The Kyaukse irrigation system is a thousand-year-old network of dams, canals, and reservoirs south of Mandalay in Myanmar, fed by the Panlaung and Zawgyi rivers.
Kyiv Reservoir
The Kyiv Reservoir, locally the Kyiv Sea, is an artificial lake on the Dnipro River in northern Ukraine, created by the Kyiv Hydroelectric Station dam in 1964.