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Saudi Binladin Group
Saudi Binladin Group is a Jeddah-headquartered Saudi construction conglomerate founded by Mohammed Binladin in 1931, best known for expanding the Two Holy Mosques in Mecca and Medina.
Saugatuck River Bridge
The Saugatuck River Bridge, officially the William F. Cribari Memorial Bridge, is an 1884 wrought iron swing bridge carrying Route 136 over the Saugatuck River in Westport, Connecticut.
Savoy Hotel
The Savoy is a luxury hotel on the Strand in London, opened in 1889 by Richard D'Oyly Carte and widely called Britain's first purpose-built deluxe hotel.
SawTeen See
SawTeen See is a structural engineer known for supertall buildings, who co-founded Leslie E. Robertson Associates and led the structural design of the 679-m Merdeka 118 Tower.
Saxon house
A Saxon house is a timber building of early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) England, from the fifth to eleventh centuries, surviving mainly as postholes, beam slots, and pits.
Scaffolding
Scaffolding is a temporary elevated platform with its supporting structure, used to support workers and materials during construction, maintenance, or repair, and is either supported or suspended.
Scandinavian design
Scandinavian design is a term for design and applied craft from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, coined in the 1950s and known for clear, functional shapes and natural materials.
Scherzer rolling lift
A Scherzer rolling lift is a movable bascule bridge whose span rolls backward on curved segmental girders as it opens, patented by William Donald Scherzer in 1893.
Schmertmann method
The Schmertmann method is a semi-empirical procedure for estimating settlement of shallow foundations on sand using cone penetration test data, introduced by John H. Schmertmann in 1970.
Schoharie Creek Bridge collapse
The Schoharie Creek Bridge collapse was the 1987 failure of an I-90 bridge near Amsterdam, New York, where floodwater scour dropped spans into the creek, killing 10.
Schönbrunn Palace
Schönbrunn Palace, or Schloss Schönbrunn, is a Baroque former Habsburg imperial summer residence in Vienna with 1,441 rooms and a UNESCO-listed park, where Emperor Franz Joseph was born in 1830.
Scotia Plaza
Scotia Plaza is a commercial office complex in Toronto's Financial District, centered on a 68-storey, 275 m tower at 40 King Street West completed in 1988 as Scotiabank's headquarters.
Scottish Water
Scottish Water is the publicly owned water and wastewater utility of Scotland, created in 2002, supplying drinking water and treating wastewater for over 5.2 million people.
Scour protection
Scour protection is the set of engineering measures that prevent or limit erosion of sediment around structures founded in water, most commonly around offshore wind turbine foundations and bridge piers.
Screed
A screed is a thin layer of cement-sand mortar or fine concrete applied over a floor slab to level it and receive the final flooring.
Screen door
A screen door is a door fitted with a mesh panel that lets air through an exterior opening while keeping insects out, usually mounted in front of a solid door.
Seagram Building
The Seagram Building is a 38-story International Style skyscraper at 375 Park Avenue in Manhattan, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958.
Sears Modern Homes
Sears Modern Homes was a mail-order house program run by Sears, Roebuck and Company from 1908 to 1940, in which customers ordered precut kit houses from a catalog.
Seattle Underground
The Seattle Underground is a network of buried storefronts and sidewalks beneath Pioneer Square in Seattle, Washington, left behind when the streets were raised after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889.
Seawall
A seawall is a rigid coastal defense structure, typically concrete, stone, or steel, built parallel to the shore to protect land behind it from wave attack, erosion, and flooding.
Second Severn Crossing
The Second Severn Crossing, officially the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge, is a road bridge carrying the M4 motorway across the River Severn between England and Wales.
Second Temple (בית המקדש השני)
The Second Temple (בית המקדש השני), known as Zerubbabel's Temple, was the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, dedicated in 516 BCE and rebuilt by Herod the Great.
Secondary treatment
Secondary treatment is the stage of wastewater treatment that uses biological processes, usually aerobic microorganisms, to remove dissolved and finely suspended organic matter left after primary settling, chiefly by activated sludge and trickling filters.
Secretariat Building, New Delhi
The Secretariat Building in New Delhi, designed by Sir Herbert Baker, consists of North Block and South Block, the main office buildings of the Government of India.
Sectional overhead door
A sectional overhead door is a door made of hinged horizontal panels that rises in side tracks and runs back along ceiling tracks, standard on garages and warehouses.
Sedapal
Sedapal (Servicio de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado de Lima) is Peru's state-owned water and sewerage utility, the sole authorized provider in metropolitan Lima and Callao since 1981.
Sediment flushing
Sediment flushing is a reservoir management operation in which low-level outlets in a dam are opened so flowing water carries deposited sediment downstream, recovering storage lost to sedimentation.
Sedimentation (water treatment)
Sedimentation in water treatment is a solid-liquid separation process in which suspended particles settle by gravity in a quiescent basin, used for clarification in drinking water and wastewater plants.
See Robertson Structural Engineers
See Robertson Structural Engineers is a consulting structural engineering firm co-founded in 2018 in Foster City, California, by SawTeen See and Leslie E. Robertson, designing and peer-reviewing structures rather than constructing them.
Seepage analysis
Seepage analysis is the geotechnical method that models water flow through soil and rock in embankment dams, levees, and foundations, computing flow rates, hydraulic gradients, and pore water pressures.