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Autoclaved aerated concrete
Autoclaved aerated concrete, also known as Hebel block or aerated autoclave concrete, is a lightweight cellular building material used for masonry blocks and insulation boards.
Automated canal control
Automated canal control is the regulation of gates and pumps in irrigation canals by control algorithms and instrumentation, keeping water levels near target values as demands change.
Automatic meter reading
Automatic meter reading (AMR), also known as advanced meter reading, is the remote collection of consumption data from water, gas, and electric meters via handheld, drive-by, or fixed-network receivers.
Aviva Stadium
Aviva Stadium, also known as Lansdowne Road, is a 51,700-capacity rugby and football stadium in Dublin, Ireland, opened in 2010 as the national home of Irish rugby and football.
Azadi Tower (برج آزادی)
The Azadi Tower, originally the Shahyad Tower, is a 45-meter white marble monument at the western entrance to Tehran, designed by Hossein Amanat and completed in 1971.
Aziza Chaouni
Aziza Chaouni is a Moroccan architect and civil engineer, a University of Toronto professor known for restoring the Fez River and for earthquake-resistant earth-brick housing in Morocco.
B. V. Doshi
B. V. Doshi (Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi) was an Indian architect who in 2018 became the first architect from India to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Babri Masjid (بابری مسجد)
Babri Masjid (بابری مسجد), also known as the Babri Mosque or Masjid-i-Janmasthan, was a 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya, India, demolished by a Hindu mob in 1992.
Bachelor of Architecture
The Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) is a five-year professional undergraduate degree in architecture, accredited by the NAAB, that satisfies the education requirement for licensure in the United States and several other countries.
Bachkovo Monastery
Bachkovo Monastery, also known as Petritsoni Monastery, is the second largest monastery of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, founded in 1083 in the Rhodope Mountains near Plovdiv.
Bachy Soletanche
Bachy Soletanche is the trading name of the United Kingdom and Hong Kong subsidiaries of Soletanche Bachy, a French ground engineering group formed by the 1997 merger of Soletanche and Bachy and owned by VINCI.
Back analysis
Back analysis is a geotechnical engineering method that adjusts a numerical model until its predictions match measured displacements, identifying soil and rock parameters for design verification.
Bacteriological water analysis
Bacteriological water analysis, also called bacterial water analysis, is the laboratory testing of drinking and recreational water for fecal bacteria such as E. coli to judge safety.
Badminton House
Badminton House is a Grade I listed country house at Great Badminton in South Gloucestershire, England, the seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since 1682 and the namesake of the sport of badminton.
Badrinath Temple
Badrinath Temple, also called Badrinarayan Temple, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu in the Garhwal Himalayas, Uttarakhand, India, and one of the Char Dham pilgrimage sites.
Badshahi Mosque (بادشاہی مسجد)
Badshahi Mosque, or Badshahi Masjid, meaning the Imperial Mosque, is a Mughal-era congregational mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, commissioned by Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671 and completed in 1673.
Baglihar Dam
Baglihar Dam, or Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, is a 900 MW run-of-the-river dam on the Chenab River in Ramban district, Jammu and Kashmir, commissioned in 2008.
Bagnell Dam
Bagnell Dam, also known as Osage Dam, is a hydroelectric dam on the Osage River in Missouri completed in 1931, creating Lake of the Ozarks.
Bagshot Park
Bagshot Park is a royal residence near Bagshot in Surrey, England, built in the 1870s for Queen Victoria's son Prince Arthur and now home to Prince Edward.
Bai Ying
Bai Ying (c. 1363–1419) was a Shandong canal foreman who supplied the plan for the 1411 Ming restoration of the Grand Canal, keeping it navigable for over 500 years.
Baidyanath Temple (बैद्यनाथ मंदिर)
Baidyanath Temple, also known as Baba Baidyanath Dham, is a Hindu temple of Shiva in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India, counted among the twelve Jyotirlingas and the 51 Shakti Peethas.
Bailey bridge
A Bailey bridge is a portable, prefabricated truss bridge of pinned steel panels, designed by Sir Donald Bailey in 1943 for military use in the Second World War.
Baiturrahman Grand Mosque
The Baiturrahman Grand Mosque (Masjid Raya Baiturrahman) is a historic mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, first built in 1612 under Sultan Iskandar Muda and rebuilt by the Dutch after burning in 1873.
Baker Street tube station
Baker Street tube station, also known as Baker Street Underground station, is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster that opened in 1863.
Bakun Dam
The Bakun Dam, also known as the Bakun Hydroelectric Project, is a 2,520 MW hydroelectric dam on the Rajang River in Sarawak, Malaysia, fully operational since 2014.
Balanced cantilever construction
Balanced cantilever construction is a bridge erection method in which segments are added alternately on opposite sides of a pier to keep the cantilever balanced, typically for spans of 50 to 200 meters.
Balcony
A balcony is a platform projecting from a building wall, enclosed by a railing and accessible from an upper floor, giving occupants outdoor space and a view.
Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty is a British multinational infrastructure group founded by George Balfour and Andrew Beatty in 1909, headquartered in London and working across the UK, US, and Hong Kong.
Balinese architecture
Balinese architecture is the traditional building tradition of Bali, Indonesia, in which temples, houses, and villages follow cosmological principles, with tiered Meru shrines and split gates.
Balinese temple architecture
Balinese temple architecture is the tradition of building Hindu temples, called pura, on Bali, Indonesia, with split gates, odd-numbered tiered meru shrines, and courtyards graded toward greater sanctity.