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7 World Trade Center
7 World Trade Center (WTC 7) is a 52-story Manhattan office tower opened in 2006, replacing a 47-story building that collapsed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
7 World Trade Center (1987–2001)
7 World Trade Center, also known as Building 7 and the Salomon Brothers Building, was a 47-story office tower in Lower Manhattan completed in 1987 and destroyed by fire-induced collapse on September 11, 2001.
72-Hour Bridge
The 72-Hour Bridge, also called the Panmunjom Bridge, is a Korean DMZ crossing built by North Korea in 72 hours in 1976 after the axe murder incident; the name also denotes a University of Maine composite bridge system.
740 Park Avenue
740 Park Avenue, also called the Tower of Power, is a 1929–1930 Rosario Candela and Arthur Loomis Harmon limestone co-op at East 71st Street, Manhattan, developed by James T. Lee, with 31 grand duplex apartments, a $100 million liquid-net-worth board bar, and record sales up to $71 million.
8 Bishopsgate
8 Bishopsgate is a 50-storey office skyscraper at Bishopsgate and Leadenhall Street in the City of London, completed in 2023 for developer Mitsubishi Estate London.
85 Sky Tower (高雄85大楼)
85 Sky Tower (高雄85大樓), also Tuntex Sky Tower or T&C Tower, is a 347.5 m, 85-story mixed-use skyscraper in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, by C.Y. Lee & Partners; Taiwan's tallest until 2003, now under partial renovation with a Le Méridien hotel planned.
90 West Street
90 West Street, originally the West Street Building, is a 23-story Gothic Revival skyscraper in Manhattan's Financial District designed by Cass Gilbert, built 1905–1907 for shipping and railroad tenants.
97 Orchard Street
97 Orchard Street is a five-story brick tenement on Manhattan's Lower East Side, built in 1863–64 and now the flagship building of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers
A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers is a three-volume reference work, published for the Institution of Civil Engineers, covering civil engineers in Britain and Ireland from 1500 to 1920.
A la Ronde
A la Ronde, Exmouth, Devon: sixteen-sided Grade I listed cottage orne built in the 1790s by cousins Jane and Mary Parminter after their Grand Tour, inspired by San Vitale, Ravenna, with Shell Gallery and feather frieze, National Trust since 1991.
A Pattern Language
A Pattern Language is a 1977 architecture book by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein that presents 253 design patterns letting laypeople design houses and neighborhoods.
A-frame house
An A-frame house is a building whose steeply pitched roof extends to the ground, serving as both roof and walls in the shape of the letter A.
A. M. Hamilton
A. M. Hamilton is the professional name of Archibald Milne Hamilton (1898–1972), a New Zealand civil engineer who invented the Callender-Hamilton prefabricated bridge, patented in 1935.
A494 road
The A494, officially the Dolgellau to South of Birkenhead Trunk Road, runs from Dolgellau through Ruthin and Mold to Queensferry, connecting with the A55 and M56.
Aachen Cathedral
Aachen Cathedral, also known as Aachener Dom, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in western Germany whose core is the Palatine Chapel built for Charlemagne between 793 and 813.
AASHTO 1993 Pavement Design Guide
The AASHTO 1993 Pavement Design Guide is an empirical procedure for designing flexible and rigid highway pavements, published by AASHTO and based on the AASHO Road Test.
AASHTO Green Book
The AASHTO Green Book, formally A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, is the principal United States reference for highway and street geometric design.
AASHTO Manual for Bridge Evaluation
The AASHTO Manual for Bridge Evaluation (MBE) is a technical standard by AASHTO that sets bridge inspection procedures, evaluation practices, and load rating, helping owners meet the National Bridge Inspection Standards.
AASHTO soil classification system
The AASHTO soil classification system, defined in standard AASHTO M 145, classifies highway soils into seven groups, A-1 through A-7, using particle size and plasticity.
AASHTO Standard Specifications for Highway Bridges
The AASHTO Standard Specifications for Highway Bridges were the design specifications for US highway bridges, published in seventeen editions from 1931 to 2002 before being superseded by the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications.
AASHTOWare Bridge
AASHTOWare Bridge is a pair of bridge engineering software products owned by AASHTO: BrDR for structural design and load rating, and BrM, which stores inventory and inspection data for preservation planning.
Abbey House
Abbey House is the name of several English buildings, most of them houses on former monastery grounds; examples include listed houses at Tewkesbury, Whitby, and Glastonbury Abbeys.
Aberdeen, Mississippi
Aberdeen, Mississippi is a city in Monroe County, northeastern Mississippi, on the Tombigbee River, best known for its lock and dam, the fourth of ten on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.
Aberfan disaster
The Aberfan disaster was the collapse of a colliery spoil tip above Aberfan, Wales, on 21 October 1966, killing 144 people, 116 of them children.
Abernethy Bridge
The Abernethy Bridge, formally the George Abernethy Bridge, is a highway bridge carrying Interstate 205 over the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn, Oregon, opened in 1970.
ABET
ABET, formerly the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, is a nonprofit accreditor of college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology.
Accelerated pavement testing
Accelerated pavement testing (APT) applies controlled wheel loads to full-scale pavement sections so that years of traffic damage accumulate within months; it came to the fore with the AASHO Road Test in the late 1950s.
Access to the Region's Core
Access to the Region's Core (ARC) was a canceled NJ TRANSIT rail tunnel project under the Hudson River to Manhattan, terminated by Governor Chris Christie in 2010.
Accropode
The Accropode is a bulky, unreinforced concrete armor unit that protects breakwaters, invented by Sogreah in France and introduced in 1980 as the first single-layer armor unit.
Acequia
An acequia is a community-operated irrigation ditch and the water-sharing institution governing it, brought from Islamic and medieval Iberia to the Americas and still functioning in New Mexico, southern Colorado, and Spain.