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Nariman House
Nariman House, also called the Mumbai Chabad House, is a building in Colaba, South Mumbai, where Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg ran a Jewish center; it was attacked in 2008.
Narkomfin Building
The Narkomfin Building (Дом Наркомфина) is a constructivist apartment complex on Novinsky Boulevard in Moscow, built 1928–1930 by Moisei Ginzburg with Ignaty Milinis for finance commissariat employees.
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.
Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram
Arulmigu Thillai Natarajar Temple, Chidambaram (Thillai): Tamil Nadu Shiva temple where Nataraja as Sabhanayaka presides over empty space, the Chidambara Rahasya, representing akasha among the Pancha Bhoota Sthalams, with 108 karana sculptures and Dikshitar priests.
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 Building Code of Canada
The National Building Code of Canada is a model building code published by the National Research Council, setting technical requirements for building design and construction since 1941.
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 Palace (Mexico)
The National Palace (Spanish: Palacio Nacional) is the government building on the Zócalo in Mexico City serving as the seat of Mexico's executive branch and the president's official workplace.
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.
National Water Supply and Drainage Board
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) is the principal statutory authority for safe drinking water and sanitation in Sri Lanka, established in January 1975.
NATM in soft ground
NATM in soft ground, known in the United States as the Sequential Excavation Method (SEM), applies the New Austrian Tunnelling Method's sequential excavation with sprayed-concrete lining to soils such as clays, silts, and sands.
Naumburg Cathedral
Naumburg Cathedral (Naumburger Dom) is a medieval cathedral in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, whose west choir holds twelve founder statues carved by the Naumburg Master; it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018.
Navajo Dam
Navajo Dam is a Bureau of Reclamation earthfill dam on the San Juan River in northeastern New Mexico, built between 1958 and 1963 to impound Navajo Reservoir.
Naval Station Newport
Naval Station Newport is a United States Navy base on Aquidneck Island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, established in 1883 and home to the Naval War College and undersea warfare research.
Naval Submarine Base New London
Naval Submarine Base New London, also known as SUBASE New London, is a United States Navy submarine base in Groton, Connecticut, the Navy's first continental submarine base.
Nave
The nave, from the Latin navis meaning ship, is the central space of a church extending from the main entrance to the transepts or chancel, adapted from the Roman basilica.
Naviduct
A naviduct is a navigable aqueduct with shipping locks built into the waterway itself, so road traffic passes beneath. The only one, at Enkhuizen in the Netherlands, opened in 2003.