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Shear center
The shear center, also called the flexural center or center of twist, is the point in a beam cross-section where a transverse load produces bending without twisting.
Sheba Medical Center
Sheba Medical Center (Hebrew: המרכז הרפואי ע"ש שיבא), also called Sheba Tel HaShomer City of Health, is Israel's largest hospital, founded in 1948 as a military hospital at Tel Hashomer near Tel Aviv.
Shed roof
A shed roof is a roof consisting of a single sloping plane with no hips, ridges, valleys, or gables, a shape that is structurally direct and economical to build.
Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque (مسجد شیخ لطف الله) is a Safavid-era mosque on Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan, Iran, built by Shah Abbas I between 1603 and 1619.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (جامع الشيخ زايد الكبير) is the principal mosque of Abu Dhabi, UAE, conceived by founding president Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and opened in 2007.
Shenzhen–Zhongshan Link
The Shenzhen–Zhongshan Link (深中通道), also called the ShenZhong Link, is a 24-kilometer cross-sea highway across the Pearl River estuary connecting Shenzhen and Zhongshan, Guangdong, opened June 30, 2024.
Shield drive operation: steering, grouting and settlement control
Shield drive operation is the phase of shield tunnelling in which a tunnel boring machine is steered along its alignment, with grouting and monitoring controlling settlement.
Shield machine components and systems
A shield machine is a tunnel boring machine whose cylindrical steel shield protects workers as it excavates a tunnel and erects its segmental lining in one operation.
Shield tunnelling incidents and failures
Shield tunnelling incidents and failures are the collapses, blowouts, and face-loss events during shield-machine excavation, including cases such as Singapore's Nicoll Highway collapse of 2004.
Shikun & Binui
Shikun & Binui (שיכון ובינוי, Hebrew for Housing and Construction) is an Israeli infrastructure and real estate group headquartered at Airport City, tracing to Solel Boneh in 1920 and active in about twenty countries.
Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid
The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid, also known as Mega-City Pyramid, is an unbuilt Shimizu Corporation concept for a pyramidal city over Tokyo Bay housing about one million people.
Shinfield Studios
Shinfield Studios, rebranded Shadowbox Studios Shinfield in 2025, is a film and television studio complex in Shinfield, Berkshire, opened between 2021 and 2024 with 18 sound stages.
Shing Mun Reservoir (城门水塘)
Shing Mun Reservoir, also known as Jubilee Reservoir (城门水塘), is an impounding reservoir in Hong Kong's New Territories, built from 1923 to 1937 to supply Kowloon.
Shinto shrine (神社)
A Shinto shrine (神社, jinja) is a sacred space in Japan where kami, the deities of Shinto, are enshrined; about 80,000 exist across the country.
Shiplap
Shiplap is a wooden board with rabbeted edges that overlap, long used as exterior siding and sheathing, and since the 2010s as decorative interior paneling.
Shiroro Dam
Shiroro Dam is a 600 MW hydroelectric dam on the Kaduna River at Shiroro Gorge in Niger State, Nigeria, commissioned in 1990 and one of the country's three major hydropower stations.
Shitennō-ji
Shitennō-ji (四天王寺) is a Buddhist temple in Tennōji Ward, Osaka, founded in 593 by Prince Shōtoku as Japan's first official state temple and head temple of the Wasō school.
Shiva of Prambanan
The Shiva of Prambanan (Candi Siwa) is the central, largest temple of the ninth-century Prambanan complex in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.
Shoji (障子)
Shoji, also known as shoji screens, are translucent Japanese sliding panels of washi paper over a wooden lattice, used as doors, windows, and room dividers since the Heian period.
Shop drawing
A shop drawing is a detailed construction drawing prepared by a contractor, fabricator, or supplier, showing how a portion of the work will be fabricated and installed.
Shopping mall
A shopping mall, also called a shopping center, is a large purpose-built retail complex where multiple stores operate under unified management with shared parking and walkways.
Shore Protection Manual
The Shore Protection Manual is a two-volume coastal engineering reference published by the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center, first issued in 1973 and last revised in 1984.
Shore Temple
The Shore Temple is an early 8th-century granite Hindu temple complex at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, India, built under the Pallava king Narasimhavarman II on the shore of the Bay of Bengal.
Shoring
Shoring is a temporary or permanent structural system used to support the sides of an excavation and prevent cave-in or collapse, commonly using soldier pile, sheet pile, and diaphragm walls.
Shotcrete
Shotcrete, also called gunite or sprayed concrete, is concrete projected at high velocity from a nozzle, used for tunnel support, slope stabilization, and repair work.
Shotgun house
The shotgun house, also called a shotgun shack or shotgun cottage, is a narrow one-story house with rooms in a straight line and no hallway, closely associated with New Orleans.
Shower
A shower is an arrangement for washing the body under a spray of water from a showerhead, either stand-alone or as an alternative to a bath.
Shrine of Venus Cloacina
The Shrine of Venus Cloacina (Sacrum Cloacina) was a small circular shrine in the Roman Forum dedicated to the goddess of Rome's great sewer, the Cloaca Maxima.
Shrines and Temples of Nikko
Shrines and Temples of Nikko (日光の社寺), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999 in Tochigi, Japan: 103 buildings across Toshogu shrine, Futarasan-jinja shrine, and Rinno-ji temple, including Tokugawa Ieyasu's mausoleum.
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
The Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System is an ensemble of dams, canals, tunnels, and watermills on the Karun River at Shushtar, Iran, completed in the 3rd century CE.