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Buckfast Abbey
Buckfast Abbey is a working Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery at Buckfastleigh in Devon, England, on a medieval site founded in 1018 and dissolved in 1539.
Buckingham Canal
The Buckingham Canal is a 448 km irrigation and navigation canal in southeastern India, running along the Coromandel Coast from Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu through Chennai, begun in 1806.
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace, the official London residence of the British sovereign since Queen Victoria moved in during 1837, is also the administrative headquarters of the UK monarch.
Buckling analysis
Buckling analysis determines the critical loads at which a slender structure loaded in compression becomes unstable and deforms laterally instead of failing by material yielding.
Buckling-restrained brace
A buckling-restrained brace (BRB) is a steel bracing member for earthquake-resistant structures that dissipates earthquake energy by yielding in tension and compression without buckling, first applied in Japan in 1989.
Buda Castle
Buda Castle, or Budavári palota, is the former royal palace of the Hungarian kings on Castle Hill in Budapest, founded after 1241 and now home to the Hungarian National Gallery.
Budapest water-supply aqueducts
The Budapest water-supply aqueducts are the wells, galleries, tunnels, and pumping stations built from the 1850s to 1904, using Danube bank filtration that still supplies the city's drinking water.
Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area
Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area (法隆寺地域の仏教建造物), a 1993 UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nara Prefecture, Japan: 48 wooden structures at Horyu-ji and Hokki-ji temples, including eleven of the world's oldest surviving wooden buildings, late 7th to early 8th century.
Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority
The Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority is a binational public corporation that owns and operates the Peace Bridge between Buffalo, New York, and Fort Erie, Ontario.
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, known locally as the Aud, was an indoor arena at 140 Main Street in downtown Buffalo, New York, built as a WPA project and opened in 1940.
Buffeting (wind engineering)
Buffeting in wind engineering is the along-wind vibration of a structure caused by turbulent wind gusts, an unsteady loading that grows with wind speed rather than a self-excited instability.
Buford Dam
Buford Dam is a 192-foot earthfill dam on the Chattahoochee River in northern Georgia, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and completed in 1956.
Build–operate–transfer
Build–operate–transfer (BOT) is a project financing arrangement in which a private company builds and operates an infrastructure project for a concession period, then transfers it back to the government.
Builders of the ancient Nile–Red Sea canal
The builders of the ancient Nile–Red Sea canal were Necho II, Darius I, Ptolemy II, Trajan, and Amr ibn al-As, who dug and redug it over a millennium.
Building
A building, also called a building structure, is an enclosed structure with walls and a roof, built to shelter people, animals, or property, ranging from houses to high-rise towers.
Building code
A building code, also called building standards, is a set of laws setting minimum requirements for designing and constructing buildings to protect occupants from collapse, fire, and health hazards.
Building energy simulation
Building energy simulation is a computational modeling method that predicts a building's energy use and thermal behavior from physics-based heat balance models, used in green design programs like LEED.
Building information modeling
Building information modeling (BIM) is the use of a shared digital representation of a built object to support design, construction, and operation, as defined by the ISO 19650 standards.
Building inspector
A building inspector is an official or certified practitioner who examines construction work and building plans to verify they comply with building codes and regulations.
Building material
A building material is any material used for construction, ranging from minimally processed natural substances like stone and wood to manufactured products like cement, steel, glass, and bricks.
Building permit
A building permit is an official authorization issued by a government building authority before construction begins, involving plan review, fees, and inspections under the building code.
Built environment
The built environment, also known as the man-made environment, is the human-made physical surroundings where people live, learn, work, and play, and a multidisciplinary field spanning architecture, construction, urban design, and planning.
Built Environment Coalition
The Built Environment Coalition is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2011 by civil engineer E. Sarah Slaughter to improve sustainability and disaster resiliency of the built environment.
Buland Darwaza
Buland Darwaza, meaning Lofty Gate, is a monumental gateway at Fatehpur Sikri near Agra, India, built by Emperor Akbar as the southern entrance to the Jama Masjid.
Bulguksa
Bulguksa (불국사) is a Buddhist temple on Mount Toham in Gyeongju, South Korea, built in the 8th century during the Unified Silla period to represent the Buddhist Pure Land on earth.
Bulk water conveyance
Bulk water conveyance moves large volumes of water through pressurized trunk mains and inter-city pipelines, from sources or treatment works to storage, with no service connections.
BUMN Tower
BUMN Tower, also called Menara BUMN, was a planned 778-meter, 138-floor skyscraper in Nusantara, Indonesia's new capital in East Kalimantan, promoted as a candidate for the tallest building in Southeast Asia but never built.
Bungalow
A bungalow (બંગલો) is a one-storey house with a broad overhanging roof and surrounding verandas, originating in Bengal; the word comes from Hindi and Gujarati bangla, meaning "of Bengal".
Bürgerspital vor dem Kärntnertor
Bürgerspital vor dem Kärntnertor, Vienna's medieval civic hospital founded 1253–1257 outside the Kärntnertor on the Wienfluss; destroyed 1529, moved to the St. Clara convent, dissolved under Joseph II in the 1780s.
Burghley House
Burghley House is a grand sixteenth-century country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire, built for William Cecil between 1555 and 1587 and one of the largest Elizabethan mansions in England.