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Setting out (construction)
Setting out, called layout in US usage, establishes marks and lines defining the position and level of construction elements, transferring design dimensions from drawings onto the ground.
Seven Mile Bridge
The Seven Mile Bridge is a 6.79-mile highway bridge in the Florida Keys carrying the Overseas Highway (US 1); the modern bridge opened in 1982 and remains Florida's longest.
Seven Sisters (Сталинские высотки) (Moscow)
The Seven Sisters (Сталинские высотки) are seven Stalin-era skyscrapers built in Moscow between 1947 and 1957, ranging from 136 to 240 meters and including Moscow State University's main building.
Seventh Regiment Armory
The Seventh Regiment Armory, now the Park Avenue Armory, is a historic National Guard armory on Manhattan's Upper East Side, built between 1877 and 1881.
Severn Bridge
The Severn Bridge (Pont Hafren) is a suspension bridge carrying the M48 across the Severn Estuary between Aust, Gloucestershire, and Beachley near Chepstow, opened in 1966.
Severn Trent
Severn Trent is a publicly listed water and wastewater company whose main subsidiary supplies drinking water to over eight million people in the Midlands and mid-Wales.
Severn Tunnel
The Severn Tunnel (Twnnel Hafren) is a railway tunnel under the River Severn between Wales and England, opened in 1886 and Britain's longest until 2007.
Seville Cathedral
Seville Cathedral (Catedral de Sevilla) is the Gothic cathedral of Seville, Spain, built between 1401 and 1519 and considered the largest Gothic building in Europe.
Seville City Hall
Seville City Hall, known in Spanish as the Ayuntamiento de Sevilla or Casa Consistorial, is the seat of the municipal government of Seville, Spain, with a 16th-century plateresque façade.
Sewage
Sewage, also known as municipal or domestic wastewater, is the spent water supply of a community, roughly 99% water, collected by sewerage systems and treated before discharge.
Sewage sludge
Sewage sludge is the semi-solid residue of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, containing organic matter, nutrients, and microorganisms; treated sludge applied to land is called biosolids.
Sewage sludge treatment
Sewage sludge treatment, also called sludge treatment, is the set of processes that reduce volume, destroy pathogens, and prepare sewage sludge for land application, landfilling, or incineration.
Sewage treatment
Sewage treatment, also known as wastewater treatment, removes pollutants from wastewater from homes and businesses before release into local waterways, protecting public health and clean water.
Sewer and drainage tunnels
Sewer and drainage tunnels are underground civil-engineering tunnels built to convey, store, or transfer sewage and stormwater, ranging from Bazalgette's London sewers of the 1860s to the Thames Tideway Tunnel.
Sewer system failures and overflows
Sewer system failures and overflows occur when wastewater networks fail to convey sewage to treatment, releasing untreated waste through combined and sanitary sewer overflows, backups, or collapses.
Sewerage
Sewerage, also called a sewage system, is the entire infrastructure that collects, treats, and disposes of wastewater, as distinct from the individual sewers that make it up.
Shadoof
A shadoof, also spelled shaduf or shadouf (شادوف), is a human-powered water-lifting lever with a counterweight and bucket, used since ancient times to raise Nile water for irrigation.
Shafdan
Shafdan (Hebrew: שפדן), formally the Dan Region Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation Project, is Israel's largest wastewater treatment plant, serving about 2.5 million people near Tel Aviv.
Shah Mosque
The Shah Mosque (Persian: مسجد شاه, Masjed-e Shah), also known as the Imam Mosque, is the 17th-century royal congregational mosque of Isfahan, Iran, built by Shah Abbas I.
Shake table
A shake table, or shaking table, is a hydraulically or electromagnetically driven platform that reproduces recorded earthquake ground motions so structures and equipment can be tested under controlled seismic loading.
Shake table test
A shake table test mounts a structure or scale model on a hydraulically driven platform reproducing ground motion, recording accelerations, displacements, and forces to assess seismic performance.
Shaking table test
A shaking table test is an earthquake engineering experiment in which a structure or scale model on a hydraulically driven platform reproduces recorded ground motion.
Shanghai Disney Resort (上海迪士尼度假区)
Shanghai Disney Resort, also known as Disney Shanghai, is a theme park resort in Pudong, Shanghai, China, opened in 2016 as Disney's first resort in mainland China.
Shanghai Tower (上海中心大厦)
Shanghai Tower (上海中心大厦) is a 632 m, 127-floor skyscraper in Shanghai's Lujiazui financial district, the tallest in China and third-tallest worldwide, known for its twisting facade, completed in 2017.
Shanghai World Financial Center (上海环球金融中心)
The Shanghai World Financial Center (上海环球金融中心) is a 492-meter, 101-story mixed-use skyscraper in Pudong, Shanghai, completed in 2008, with a trapezoidal aperture at its top and observation decks at 474 meters.
Shape factor (plastic design)
The shape factor of a structural cross section is the ratio of its plastic to its elastic section modulus, a purely geometric property independent of material strength.
Sharada Peeth (शारदा पीठ)
Sharada Peeth (शारदा पीठ), also called Sharda Temple, is a ruined Hindu temple at Shardi in the Neelum Valley of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, revered as the goddess Sharada's abode.
Shasta Dam
Shasta Dam is a 602-foot concrete gravity dam on the Sacramento River near Redding, California, built by the Bureau of Reclamation from 1938 to 1945 and impounding Shasta Lake.
Shasta Lake
Shasta Lake is the reservoir impounded by Shasta Dam on the Sacramento River northwest of Redding, California, and the largest reservoir in California, holding 4,552,000 acre-feet.
Shaw House
Shaw House, Newbury: Grade I listed Elizabethan mansion built 1581 for Thomas Dolman, a Royalist stronghold in the 1644 Second Battle of Newbury, later a school, restored and reopened to the public in 2006.