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Barnes Railway Bridge
Barnes Railway Bridge, also known as Barnes Bridge, carries the Hounslow Loop railway across the River Thames between Barnes and Chiswick, London, alongside a disused 1849 cast iron bridge.
Barrage (dam)
A barrage is a low, gated barrier built across a river to raise and regulate the upstream water level, an adjustable weir distinguished from a storage dam.
Barton Swing Aqueduct
The Barton Swing Aqueduct is a movable navigable aqueduct in Barton-upon-Irwell, Greater Manchester, carrying the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894.
Basawakkulama Tank
Basawakkulama Tank (Abhaya Wewa, Abhayavapi), Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka: the first reservoir in the country's recorded history, built by King Pandukabhaya (437–367 BCE), capacity 1,910 acre-feet, still supplying pilgrims and irrigating 916 acres.
Bascule bridge
A bascule bridge is a movable bridge whose span, called a leaf, rotates upward like a seesaw on a counterweighted pivot to let vessels pass through a waterway.
Base flood elevation
Base flood elevation is the height floodwater is expected to reach in a 100-year flood, the reference for US floodplain rules, building codes, and insurance.
Basilica Cistern
The Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnıcı, Sunken Palace) is the largest covered Byzantine cistern in Istanbul, built under Justinian I about 532 with 336 marble columns near the Hagia Sophia.
Batoka Gorge Dam
The Batoka Gorge Dam is a proposed 2,400 MW hydroelectric dam on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, about 47 km downstream of Victoria Falls.
Battle of Arnhem
The Battle of Arnhem was a September 1944 battle in which the British 1st Airborne Division failed to hold the Arnhem road bridge during Operation Market Garden.
Battle of Remagen
The Battle of Remagen, also called the Remagen Bridgehead, was the ten-day March 1945 fight over the Ludendorff Bridge, captured intact by the US 9th Armored Division.
Bayonne Bridge
The Bayonne Bridge is a steel arch bridge across the Kill Van Kull between Bayonne, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York, completed in 1931 by the Port Authority.
Bayport Terminal
Bayport Terminal is a container shipping facility on the Bayport Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas, opened in 2007 as the second of Port Houston's two container terminals.
Beach nourishment
Beach nourishment, also called beach replenishment or beachfill, is the placement of dredged sand on eroding beaches to widen them and buffer storms, first practiced in the United States in the 1920s.
Beaver dam
A beaver dam, also called a beaver impoundment, is a barrier of branches, mud, and rocks built by beavers across a stream to create a pond.
Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic
Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic: Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) in Brdy Protected Landscape Area built dams on the Klabava in 2021-2024 where a human revitalization project stalled since 2018, saving about 30 million koruna ($1.2 million).
Bechtel
Bechtel, also known as Bechtel Corporation, is a privately held American engineering and construction company founded by Warren A. Bechtel in 1898, headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
Beemster Polder
The Beemster Polder (Droogmakerij de Beemster) is a 7,208-hectare reclaimed agricultural landscape north of Amsterdam, created by draining Lake Beemster between 1608 and 1612.
Belo Monte Dam
The Belo Monte Dam (Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte) is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric plant on the Xingu River in Pará, Brazil, with an installed capacity of 11,233.1 MW.
Bengaluru–Vijayawada Expressway
The Bengaluru–Vijayawada Expressway, also called the Bengaluru–Kadapa–Vijayawada Economic Corridor or BKV Expressway, is a six-lane access-controlled highway under construction linking Bengaluru in Karnataka with Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh.
Bennerley Viaduct
Bennerley Viaduct, also known as Ilkeston Viaduct, is a Grade II listed wrought-iron railway viaduct spanning the Erewash valley between Awsworth and Ilkeston. Completed in 1877, it reopened as a foot and cycle bridge in 2022.
Bering Strait crossing
The Bering Strait crossing, also called the Intercontinental Peace Bridge, is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel linking Russia's Chukotka Peninsula with Alaska's Seward Peninsula, proposed since the late 1800s and never built.
Berliner Wasserbetriebe
Berliner Wasserbetriebe (BWB) is the integrated drinking water and wastewater utility of Berlin, Germany, wholly owned by the Land Berlin and Germany's largest water provider since reunification.
Berm
A berm is a nearly horizontal step or ledge in the sloping profile of an embankment, cut slope, or beach, or a soil prism placed against a levee.
Bertha (tunnel boring machine)
Bertha was an Earth Pressure Balance tunnel boring machine built by Hitachi Zosen to excavate the State Route 99 tunnel replacing Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct, finishing in 2017.
Bhakra Dam
Bhakra Dam (भाखड़ा बांध), also known as Bhakra Nangal Dam, is a 225.55 m high concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Bhandardara Dam
Bhandardara Dam (भंडारदरा धरण), also known as Wilson Dam, is a masonry gravity dam on the Pravara River in Maharashtra, India, completed in 1926 to impound Arthur Lake.
Bhavanisagar Reservoir
Bhavanisagar Reservoir (Tamil: பவானிசாகர் அணை), also called the Lower Bhavani Dam, is an earthen and masonry dam on the Bhavani River in Tamil Nadu, India, built 1948 to 1955.
Bhumibol Dam
Bhumibol Dam (เขื่อนภูมิพล), originally named Yanhee Dam, is a concrete arch dam on the Ping River in Tak Province, Thailand, completed in 1964 as the country's first multi-purpose dam.
Bidaa Bint Saud
Bidaa Bint Saud is an archaeological site north of Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, with Bronze Age tombs, Iron Age graves, and ancient aflaj irrigation channels.
Bidet
A bidet is a plumbing fixture or toilet attachment that cleans the perineal and anal areas with a stream of water, invented in France in the early 18th century.