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Paro Taktsang (སྤ་རོ་སྟག་ཚང)
Paro Taktsang (Tiger's Nest, Taktsang Palphug) is a cliffside Bhutanese monastery above Paro Valley at about 3,120 m, linked to the Padmasambhava tigress legend, founded as a temple complex in 1692 by Tendzin Rabgye, and rebuilt by 2005 after fires.
Parquet
Parquet is wood flooring of short strips or blocks fitted into decorative geometric patterns such as herringbone, chevron, and basketweave, first used at the Palace of Versailles in 1684.
Parsons Corporation
Parsons Corporation is an American technology and engineering company founded in 1944 in Los Angeles, headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, serving the U.S. federal government and infrastructure customers worldwide.
Parthenon (Nashville)
The Parthenon in Nashville is a full-scale replica of the Athenian original in Centennial Park, built for the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition and serving as an art museum.
Particle board
Particle board, also called chipboard, is an engineered wood panel made from wood particles, such as sawdust and chips, bonded with resin and hot-pressed into sheets.
Party wall
A party wall is a dividing wall shared by two properties with separate owners, standing astride the boundary or wholly on one owner's land separating the buildings.
Pashupatinath Temple (पशुपतिनाथ मन्दिर)
Pashupatinath Temple (पशुपतिनाथ मन्दिर) is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva as Pashupati on the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal, the country's most revered temple.
Passive cooling
Passive cooling dissipates heat from buildings and electronics without powered components such as compressors or pumps, using radiation, conduction, natural convection, and evaporation; it matters because buildings use about 30% of global final energy.
Passive design
Passive design is an architectural and building-engineering approach that heats and cools buildings through orientation, insulation, shading, thermal mass, and ventilation rather than mechanical systems.
Paternoster lift
A paternoster lift, also called a paternoster elevator, is a passenger elevator with a chain of open, doorless cabins moving continuously in a loop so passengers step on and off without it stopping.
Pathmark
Pathmark was a supermarket chain in the northeastern United States from 1968 to 2015, first under Supermarkets General and later A&P, an early pioneer of checkout scanning; the brand was revived in 2019.
Paul Fares Boulos
Paul Fares Boulos, also known as Paul F. Boulos, is a civil engineer born in Beirut who founded Innovyze and now chairs Aquanuity, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.
Paul Pholeros
Paul Pholeros (1953–2016) was an Australian architect who co-founded Healthabitat and developed Housing for Health, repairing health hardware in Indigenous houses and cutting infectious-disease hospitalizations 40%.
Pavement management system
A pavement management system (PMS) is a set of tools that helps road agencies plan and maintain pavement networks, recommending treatments so the network stays serviceable at least cost.
Pavement milling
Pavement milling, also called cold planing or asphalt milling, is a road-rehabilitation process in which a rotating cutter drum grinds away a controlled depth of old pavement for recycling.
Pavilion
A pavilion is a light, often ornamental free-standing building, or a projecting subdivision of a larger building; the word comes from the French pavillion, originally a square tent.
Peace Bridge
The Peace Bridge is a toll bridge over the Niagara River connecting Buffalo, New York, with Fort Erie, Ontario. Opened in 1927, it is one of the busiest border crossings.
Peace Bridge (Foyle)
The Peace Bridge, Derry is an S-shaped pedestrian and cycle bridge over the River Foyle, opened in 2011 to link the city center with the Waterside.
Peachoid
The Peachoid is a 135-foot water tower in Gaffney, South Carolina, shaped and painted like a giant peach, holding one million gallons for Cherokee County.
Peacock Room
The Peacock Room is a dining room Whistler decorated in 1876–1877 for shipowner Frederick Leyland, a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement now in Washington, DC.
Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge (Connecticut)
The Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, informally the Q Bridge, carries Interstate 95 over New Haven Harbor in Connecticut and is the first extradosed bridge in the United States.
Pebble Mill Studios
Pebble Mill Studios, also known as BBC Pebble Mill, was the BBC's television, radio, and news complex in Edgbaston, Birmingham, opened in 1971 and demolished in 2005.
Peckforton Castle
Peckforton Castle is a Grade I listed Victorian country house built as a medieval castle near Tarporley in Cheshire, England, and now operating as a hotel.
Pedestrian and cycle tunnels by region
Pedestrian and cycle tunnels by region surveys where tunnels for walkers and cyclists cluster, covering the 1950s-to-1970s subway boom, river crossings like Rotterdam's Maastunnel, and modern Nordic cycle tunnels.
Pedestrian bridges in the United States by state
Pedestrian bridges in the United States by state surveys how footbridges are defined, registered, counted, and funded across the states, drawing on the National Bridge Inventory, the National Register of Historic Places, and state inventories.
Pediment
A pediment, or architectural pediment, is the triangular gable crowning a classical building or framing a door, window, or niche, originating in Greek temples and often filled with sculpture.
PEER Consultants
PEER Consultants, P.C. is an environmental engineering consulting firm founded in 1978 by Dr. Lilia A. Abron, a chemical and environmental engineer who leads it as president and CEO.
Pegasus Bridge
Pegasus Bridge is the Caen Canal bridge at Bénouville, Normandy, captured intact by Major John Howard's glider-borne British force in the opening minutes of D-Day, 6 June 1944.
Peleș Castle
Peleș Castle, Romanian: Castelul Peleș, is a German Neo-Renaissance royal castle in Sinaia, Romania, built from 1873 to 1914 as the summer residence of King Carol I.
Pelješac Bridge
The Pelješac Bridge (Pelješki most) is a 2,404 m cable-stayed road bridge in southern Croatia, opened in July 2022 to bypass Bosnia's Neum corridor with 85 percent EU funding.