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Samsung C&T Corporation (삼성물산)
Samsung C&T Corporation, known in Korean as 삼성물산, is a South Korean construction and trading company and core Samsung Group affiliate with four business groups, including Engineering & Construction.
Samuel De Champlain Bridge
The Samuel De Champlain Bridge is a 3.4-kilometer cable-stayed bridge carrying Highway 15 across the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Brossard, opened in 2019.
Samuel-De Champlain Bridge
The Samuel-De Champlain Bridge (French: pont Samuel-De Champlain) is a cable-stayed bridge opened in 2019 across the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Brossard, Quebec.
San Agustin Church (Manila)
San Agustin Church is a Roman Catholic church in Intramuros, Manila, completed in 1607 and the oldest stone church in the Philippines, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.
San Antonio Water System
The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) is the city-owned utility serving about 2 million people in San Antonio, Texas, and surrounding Bexar County. It was created in 1992.
San Diego County Water Authority
The San Diego County Water Authority is a public wholesale water agency created by California in 1944, selling water to 22 member agencies serving 3.3 million people.
San Francisco Armory
The San Francisco Armory, also known as the Mission Armory, is a fortress-like 1914 National Guard armory in San Francisco's Mission District, later the headquarters of Kink.com.
San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System
The San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System (AWSS) is a dedicated high-pressure firefighting water network, built from 1908 to 1913 after the 1906 earthquake and fire.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is San Francisco's public utility agency, providing the city's drinking water, wastewater, and power services through the Hetch Hetchy water system and CleanPowerSF.
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, often called the Bay Bridge, is an 8.4-mile crossing of San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, opened in 1936.
San Giorgio Maggiore (church)
San Giorgio Maggiore is a Benedictine church on an island in the Venetian Lagoon, designed by Andrea Palladio, built between 1566 and 1600, and facing St Mark's Square.
San Juan de la Peña (monastery)
San Juan de la Peña is a former Benedictine royal monastery in Huesca, Aragon, Spain, built partly beneath a massive rock overhang, holding the tombs of the first Aragonese kings.
San Juan de Ulúa
San Juan de Ulúa is a Spanish colonial fortress on an islet facing the port of Veracruz, Mexico, begun in the 16th century and now a museum.
San Juan–Chama Project
The San Juan–Chama Project is a Bureau of Reclamation diversion, completed in 1971, that moves San Juan River water across the Continental Divide into New Mexico's Rio Grande Basin.
San Juanico Bridge
The San Juanico Bridge is a 2.16-kilometer steel bridge in the Philippines that carries the Pan-Philippine Highway across the San Juanico Strait, linking Samar and Leyte.
San Lázaro Aqueduct
San Lázaro Aqueduct (Acueducto de Rabo de Buey-San Lázaro), Roman aqueduct at Mérida, Spain, one of three supplying Emerita Augusta; three granite-and-brick pillars, 14.97 m high, survive; 16th-century Renaissance replacement; part of UNESCO site 664.
San Pedro de Arlanza
San Pedro de Arlanza is a ruined Benedictine monastery near Covarrubias in Burgos, Spain, traditionally founded in 912 and chosen as the burial place of Count Fernán González.
San Pedro de Cardeña
San Pedro de Cardeña is a Cistercian abbey near Burgos, Spain, first recorded in 902 and known for its 200 martyred monks and the tomb of El Cid.
San Pietro in Montorio
San Pietro in Montorio is a Renaissance church on the Janiculum hill in Rome, built on the traditional site of Saint Peter's crucifixion and consecrated in 1500.
San Rocco (magazine)
San Rocco was an Italian independent magazine about architecture, published in English from 2010 to 2019 and known for monothematic issues with black axonometric covers.
Sanchi Stupa
The Sanchi Stupa, also known as the Great Stupa or Stupa 1, is a hemispherical Buddhist monument in Madhya Pradesh, India, begun in the 3rd century BCE under Emperor Aśoka.
Sand engine
The Sand engine (Dutch: Zandmotor), also called the Sand Motor, is a hook-shaped artificial sand peninsula built in 2011 off the Dutch coast to protect it from erosion.
Sand filter
A sand filter is a water treatment device that passes water through a bed of sand to trap particles and microorganisms, used in municipal and household drinking water treatment.
Sandford Fleming
Sandford Fleming, also known as Sir Sandford Fleming, was a Scottish-born Canadian railway engineer and Father of Standard Time who proposed worldwide time zones in 1884.
Sandringham House
Sandringham House is a country mansion in Norfolk, England, built in the Jacobean style and completed in 1870 for Edward, Prince of Wales; it remains the British monarch's private residence.
Sands Macau
Sands Macau, also written Sands Macao, is a casino hotel and entertainment complex on the Macau peninsula, China, owned by Las Vegas Sands and opened in 2004.
Sanepar
Sanepar (Companhia de Saneamento do Paraná) is a Brazilian publicly listed water and sanitation utility controlled by the state of Paraná, founded in 1963, serving 345 municipalities from Curitiba.
Sanitary sewer
A sanitary sewer, also called a foul sewer, is a buried pipe network that carries domestic and industrial wastewater to a treatment plant, deliberately excluding stormwater runoff.
Sanitary sewer overflow
A sanitary sewer overflow (SSO), also known as a wet weather overflow or sewage spill, is an untreated release of sewage from a sanitary sewer system.
Sanitation in ancient Rome
Sanitation in ancient Rome comprised the aqueducts, sewers, public and private latrines, and baths that served cities of more than one million people, yet parasites like whipworm and roundworm remained widespread.