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Civil engineering education by country
Civil engineering education by country compares how countries train civil engineers, covering Bologna degree structures, Germany's Diplom-Ingenieur, UK chartered status, and Canada's supervised licensure route.
Civil engineering prizes and awards
Civil engineering prizes and awards are honors from professional institutions like ASCE, ICE, and IStructE, recognizing outstanding projects and careers, with the Telford Medal dating to 1838.
Cladding (construction)
Cladding, also called building cladding, is the non-load-bearing outer skin attached to a building's structure to form its exterior finish and protect it from weather and fire.
Claerwen
Claerwen Reservoir is held by a 56 m concrete dam in mid Wales, opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 as the largest of the Elan Valley reservoirs feeding Birmingham.
Claiborne Pell Bridge
The Claiborne Pell Bridge, commonly called the Newport Bridge, is a toll suspension bridge carrying Rhode Island Route 138 over Narragansett Bay, connecting Jamestown and Newport.
Clair A. Hill
Clair A. Hill, known as "California's Mr. Water," was an American civil engineer from Redding, California, whose firm merged with CH2M in 1971 to form CH2M Hill.
Clarence House
Clarence House is a Grade I listed royal residence in Westminster, London, built by John Nash in 1825–27 and home to King Charles III since 2003.
Clarifier
A clarifier is a large rectangular or circular sedimentation tank in water and wastewater treatment where slowed flow lets suspended solids settle by gravity and floatables rise, removing about 60 percent of solids.
Clark Enterprises
Clark Enterprises is the Bethesda, Maryland holding company of A. James Clark, a University of Maryland-trained civil engineer who built one of the largest privately held US construction companies.
Clark unit hydrograph
The Clark unit hydrograph is a synthetic unit hydrograph method, proposed by C. O. Clark in 1945, that translates rainfall excess along a time-area histogram and routes it through a linear reservoir.
Classiebawn Castle
Classiebawn Castle is a Scottish Baronial country house built in 1874 on the Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo, Ireland, for Viscount Palmerston and later the summer home of Lord Louis Mountbatten.
Cleddau Bridge
The Cleddau Bridge is a steel box-girder road bridge carrying the A477 across the river Cleddau in Pembrokeshire, Wales, which collapsed during construction in 1970, killing four men.
Clem7
Clem7, formally the Clem Jones Tunnel, is a tolled road tunnel in Brisbane, Australia, opened in 2010 and named after former lord mayor Clem Jones.
Cleopatra's Needle (London)
Cleopatra's Needle is an ancient Egyptian granite obelisk of Thutmose III standing on the Victoria Embankment beside the Thames in London, erected in 1878 and misnamed for Cleopatra.
Clerestory
A clerestory is a band of high windows near a roofline, raised above adjoining lower roofs to admit light and air into a building's interior.
Cliff House, San Francisco
Cliff House, San Francisco: landmark restaurant at Lands End above Seal Rocks, founded 1863; three buildings, the Victorian second burned 1907; the 1909 concrete third is NPS-owned and closed since 2020.
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Clifton Suspension Bridge, also known as Brunel's Clifton Bridge, is a wrought iron chain suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge in Bristol, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1864.
Climate Pledge Arena
Climate Pledge Arena, formerly KeyArena, is an indoor arena at Seattle Center in Seattle, opened in 2021 as home of the NHL's Seattle Kraken and the WNBA's Seattle Storm.
Cliveden
Cliveden, also known as Cliveden House, is a Grade I listed country house at Taplow, Buckinghamshire, now a National Trust luxury hotel above the Thames.
Cloaca Maxima
The Cloaca Maxima is ancient Rome's great gravity sewer, begun in the 6th century BC to drain the Forum into the Tiber, and still partly in use.
Cloister
A cloister is an open courtyard surrounded by a covered, usually arcaded walkway, forming the organizational heart of a monastery by linking the church with buildings where the community ate, slept, and met.
Clonmacnoise
Clonmacnoise (Irish: Cluain Mhic Nóis) is a ruined early medieval monastery on the River Shannon in County Offaly, Ireland, founded about 548 by St Ciarán.
Cloud seeding in the United Arab Emirates
Cloud seeding in the United Arab Emirates is a national weather-modification program run by the National Centre of Meteorology, which has flown salt-based seeding aircraft since 2002.
Clough Williams-Ellis
Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis (1883–1978) was a Welsh architect, author, and conservation campaigner known chiefly for creating Portmeirion, the Italianate holiday village in North Wales.
Coachella Canal
The Coachella Canal is a 123-mile branch of the All-American Canal in southeastern California, built from 1938 to 1948 to irrigate about 78,530 acres of the Coachella Valley.
Coastal Engineering Manual
The Coastal Engineering Manual (CEM) is the United States Army Corps of Engineers' comprehensive manual for coastal engineering, first issued in 2002 as EM 1110-2-1100.
Coastal management
Coastal management, also called coastal defense or coastal protection, directs human activity along coastlines using seawalls, mangrove restoration, and zoning to balance protection, development, and climate hazards.
Cob (material)
Cob is an earthen building material of clay-rich subsoil, sand, straw, and water, stacked wet into monolithic walls without formwork, used for thousands of years.
Cochabamba Water War
The Cochabamba Water War (Guerra del Agua), also called the Bolivian Water War, was a series of protests in Cochabamba, Bolivia, against water privatization and rate increases.
CoCo Key Water Resort
CoCo Key Water Resort was an American chain of Key West-themed hotel water park resorts launched in 2006, built by renovating underperforming hotels; most locations have closed since.