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Mumbai Trans Harbour Link
The Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, officially the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri–Nhava Sheva Atal Setu, is India's longest sea bridge, connecting Mumbai with the mainland, opened in 2024.
Mundaring Weir
Mundaring Weir is a concrete gravity dam on the Helena River near Perth, Western Australia, built 1898 to 1901 as the headworks of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.
Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area
The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area is an irrigated agricultural region in the Riverina of southern New South Wales, Australia, established in 1906 and supplied from Burrinjuck Dam from 1909.
Mwea Irrigation Scheme
The Mwea Irrigation Scheme is Kenya's largest public rice irrigation scheme, a 30,600-acre paddy project in Kirinyaga County established in 1954 that supplies over 80% of Kenya's rice, fed by the Thiba and Nyamindi rivers.
Nachchaduwa Tank
Nachchaduwa Tank (Nachchaduwa Wewa, නාච්චාදූව වැව) is an ancient irrigation reservoir on the Malwathu Oya near Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, attributed to Mahasena or Moggallana II, restored 1906 and 1958, irrigating about 2,540 ha.
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, also known as the Nagarjuna Sagar Project, is a masonry gravity dam on the Krishna River in India, completed in 1967 and irrigating about 900,000 hectares.
Nages Roman Bridge
Nages Roman Bridge (Pont d'Argnac), three-arch Roman bridge at Nages-et-Solorgues, Gard, France, still in service over the Rhôny on the ancient Nîmes-Lodève road; distinct from the 1960s concrete Pont du Viau at Nages, Tarn.
Nahrawan Canal
The Nahrawan Canal, also called Nahrwān or al-Qāṭul al-Kesrawi, was a large irrigation canal in Iraq attributed to Khosrow I that supplied eastern Abbasid Baghdad before failing around 1150.
Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project
The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project (NT2) is a 1,080 MW dam in central Laos, built for $1.3 billion and exporting most of its power to Thailand.
Named tunnels: an overview
Named tunnels are specific, individually identified underground or underwater passages named after a place, engineer, or project, notable for length, age, engineering method, or cultural standing.
Nampo Dam (남포댐)
Nampo Dam, also called the West Sea Barrage, is an 8-kilometer tidal barrage in North Korea closing the Taedong River's mouth, built from 1982 to 1986.
Nanfang'ao Bridge (南方澳大桥)
Nanfangao Bridge was a 140 m single arch bridge crossing the Nanfangao fishing harbor channel in Yilan County, Taiwan; it collapsed in 2019, killing six.
Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge (南京长江大桥)
The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge (南京长江大桥) is a double-deck road and railway bridge over the Yangtze at Nanjing, China, opened in 1968 as the first major bridge designed and built entirely by China.
Narmada Bachao Andolan (नर्मदा बचाओ आंदोलन)
Narmada Bachao Andolan (नर्मदा बचाओ आंदोलन), the Save the Narmada Movement, is an Indian movement founded by Medha Patkar in 1985 that opposed large dams on the Narmada river.
Narmada Canal
The Narmada Canal is the main irrigation and water-supply canal of the Sardar Sarovar Project, carrying Narmada River water 532 km across Gujarat into Rajasthan.
Narmada Valley Development Project
The Narmada Valley Development Project is a scheme of 30 large and over 3,000 dams on India's Narmada River, whose displacement controversy prompted a World Bank withdrawal in 1993.
Narrowboat
A narrowboat is a canal boat about 6 feet 10 inches wide and up to 70 feet long, built to fit the narrow locks of England's midland canals.
National Bridge Inspection Standards
The National Bridge Inspection Standards are US federal regulations requiring routine highway bridge inspections at least every 24 months, created in 1971 after the Silver Bridge collapse.
National Bridge Inventory
The National Bridge Inventory is a Federal Highway Administration database tracking the location, condition, and ratings of more than 624,000 bridges on United States public roads.
National contractor associations and the geography of the civil engineering industry
National contractor associations are trade bodies representing civil engineering contractors to government on contracts, wages, and procurement, federating through FIEC in Europe, CICA globally, and national bodies like India's BAI.
National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) is the nonprofit organization of US licensing boards that develops the FE and PE engineering exams.
National Dam Safety Program
The National Dam Safety Program (NDSP) is a United States federal program, administered by FEMA since its 1996 authorization by Congress, that supports dam safety through state assistance grants, training, and research.
National Flood Insurance Program
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a FEMA-administered federal program, created by Congress in 1968, that provides flood insurance to property owners in participating communities.
National Inventory of Dams
The National Inventory of Dams (NID) is a database documenting over 90,000 dams in the United States, maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1975.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) is the permit program created by the 1972 Clean Water Act that regulates point sources discharging pollutants into US waters.
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges
The National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges is an American nonprofit, chartered in Massachusetts in 1954, that preserves covered bridges and publishes the World Guide to Covered Bridges.
National Structural Code of the Philippines
The National Structural Code of the Philippines (NSCP) is the country's structural design standard, published by ASEP and legally enforceable under the National Building Code.
National traditions in bridge engineering
National traditions in bridge engineering surveys how the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and the United Kingdom design bridges, tracing each tradition from the 1716 French Corps des Ponts et Chaussées to modern codes.
National Water Carrier of Israel
The National Water Carrier of Israel, built by Mekorot between 1953 and 1964, is a 130-kilometer system conveying water from the Sea of Galilee to central and southern Israel.
National Water Company (Saudi Arabia)
The National Water Company (Arabic: شركة المياه الوطنية) is a Saudi joint stock company, fully state-owned, providing water supply and sanitation services since its 2008 creation.