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Desert Diamond Arena
Desert Diamond Arena, formerly Glendale Arena and Gila River Arena, is a city-owned indoor arena in Glendale, Arizona, opened in 2003 for the Arizona Coyotes.
Design
Design is a plan or specification for constructing an object, system, or activity, or the realized result, spanning architecture, engineering, software, and the applied arts.
Design and performance of immersed tube tunnels
Design of immersed tube tunnels must keep prefabricated elements buoyant during installation but permanently submerged, with watertight joints, seismic resilience, and accommodation of settlement in soft alluvial soils.
Design brief
A design brief is the written document recording a client's goals, requirements, and constraints for a building project before design begins; problems in buildings often trace back to it.
Design development
Design development is the second major phase of the architectural design process, refining the approved schematic design into a coordinated solution covering structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.
Design flood
A design flood is the flood magnitude a hydraulic structure or protected area is designed to accommodate safely, stated as a peak flow, volume, or water level.
Design speed
Design speed is a selected speed used to determine the geometric design features of a roadway, first proposed in 1936 and defined by AASHTO's Green Book since 2001.
Design storm
A design storm is a hypothetical rainfall event of specified depth, duration, and probability, defined for designing drainage and flood control infrastructure rather than from a real storm.
Design–bid–build
Design–bid–build, or DBB, is a construction project delivery method where design and construction are sequential and contracted separately, the traditional method for US public works.
Design–build
Design–build, or design and build, is a project delivery method in which a single entity holds one contract with the owner for both design and construction.
Destiny USA
Destiny USA, originally Carousel Center, is a 2.4-million-square-foot shopping, dining, and entertainment mall in Syracuse, New York, on Onondaga Lake, opened in 1990 and renamed in 2012 after a large expansion.
Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam, also called the Nova Kakhovka dam collapse, was the catastrophic breach of the dam at Nova Kakhovka, Ukraine, on 6 June 2023.
Detail drawing
A detail drawing is a large-scale architectural drawing showing a small part of a building, such as a wall junction, with exact construction, dimensions, and materials.
Detention basin
A detention basin is an engineered depression that temporarily stores stormwater runoff and releases it slowly through a controlled outlet, reducing downstream peak flows and flooding.
Detention dam
A detention dam is a dam built to hold floodwater temporarily and release it at a controlled rate, rather than to store water permanently for supply or power.
Deterioration modeling
Deterioration modeling, also called infrastructure deterioration modeling, uses statistical, probabilistic, and physical models to predict how infrastructure, most commonly highway bridges, declines over time, guiding maintenance and budget planning in systems like Pontis.
Detroit Dam
Detroit Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the North Santiam River about 45 miles east of Salem, Oregon, built by the Army Corps of Engineers between 1949 and 1953.
Detroit International Bridge Company
The Detroit International Bridge Company is a private, for-profit Michigan corporation that owns the United States side of the Ambassador Bridge, the toll crossing between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
Detroit Olympia
The Detroit Olympia, known as Olympia Stadium and nicknamed the Old Red Barn, was a Detroit arena that was home to the Detroit Red Wings from 1927 until 1979.
Deutscher Werkbund
The Deutscher Werkbund is a German association of artists, architects, designers, and industrialists, founded in Munich in 1907 to unite art with industry and improve German products.
Development-induced displacement
Development-induced displacement is the forced movement of people from their homes, land, or livelihoods caused by development projects such as dams, mines, roads, and urban infrastructure.
Devil's Bridge
Devil's Bridge is the name of many European bridges tied to a legend that the devil built the bridge in exchange for a soul, then was cheated.
Dew
Dew is water in the form of droplets that condenses from atmospheric water vapor onto surfaces cooled overnight below the air's dew point, most often on vegetation and soil.
DGNB
DGNB, or Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen, is the German Sustainable Building Council, founded in 2007 to certify buildings, districts, interiors, and construction sites for sustainability.
Dharmasthala Temple
Dharmasthala Temple (ಧರ್ಮಸ್ಥಳ), formally the Shri Manjunatha Swamy Temple, is a Hindu temple to Shiva as Lord Manjunatha in coastal Karnataka, India, run for over 500 years by a Jain family.
Dhola–Sadiya Bridge
The Dhola–Sadiya Bridge, officially Bhupen Hazarika Setu, is a 9.15 km beam bridge over the Lohit River linking Dhola in Assam with Sadiya, inaugurated in May 2017.
Diamer-Bhasha Dam
The Diamer-Bhasha Dam is an under-construction gravity dam on the Indus River in northern Pakistan, designed to store 8.1 MAF of water and generate 4,500 MW.
Diaphragm pump
The diaphragm pump, also called a membrane pump, is a positive displacement pump that moves fluid by flexing a flexible membrane, handling corrosive and hazardous media without leakage.
Diefenbunker
The Diefenbunker, also known as CFS Carp, is a four-storey underground Cold War bunker in Carp, Ontario, built 1959 to 1961 and now Canada's Cold War Museum.
Digital architecture
Digital architecture is architecture designed, developed, or fabricated with substantial reliance on computer technologies, from CAD and BIM to parametric, generative, and algorithmic design, emerging as a design current in the 1990s.