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Dryburgh Abbey
Dryburgh Abbey is the ruin of a Premonstratensian monastery founded in 1150 on the River Tweed in Roxburghshire, Scotland, and the burial place of Sir Walter Scott.
Drywall
Drywall, also known as Sheetrock or plasterboard, is a fire-resistant panel of gypsum faced with paper, used for interior walls and ceilings; modern wallboard was invented in 1916 by United States Gypsum.
Dubai Creek Tower
Dubai Creek Tower (برج خور دبي) is a planned observation tower at Dubai Creek Harbour, Dubai, designed by Santiago Calatrava to surpass the Burj Khalifa before its 2020 suspension.
Dublin Castle
Dublin Castle is a government complex and major state ceremonial site in central Dublin, built from 1204 on the orders of King John of England on a former Viking settlement site.
Dudley Tunnel
Dudley Tunnel is a canal tunnel in Dudley, England, begun in 1775 to serve limestone mines and now the second longest navigable canal tunnel in the UK.
Dujiangyan (都江堰)
Dujiangyan (都江堰), also known as the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, is an ancient damless irrigation system in Sichuan, China, begun around 256 BC by Li Bing and still in use.
Dul Hasti Hydroelectric Plant
Dul Hasti Hydroelectric Plant, also written Dulhasti, is a 390 MW run-of-the-river power station on the Chenab River in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, commissioned in 2007.
Dulles International Airport Main Terminal
Dulles International Airport Main Terminal: Eero Saarinen's 1962 landmark terminal in Dulles, Virginia, with its suspended catenary concrete roof and mobile lounge system, operated by MWAA and now being expanded under the GlobalGateway program.
Dumbarton Bridge (California)
The Dumbarton Bridge is a six-lane toll bridge carrying State Route 84 across southern San Francisco Bay between Newark and East Palo Alto, opened in October 1982.
Dunluce Castle
Dunluce Castle is a ruined medieval castle on a coastal cliff on the north Antrim coast of Northern Ireland, built around 1500 by the MacQuillans.
Dunnottar Castle
Dunnottar Castle, also known as Dunotter Castle, is a ruined cliff-top fortress in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, best known for hiding the Scottish crown jewels in 1651.
Dunrobin Castle
Dunrobin Castle, near Golspie in Sutherland, Scotland, is the historic seat of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, largely rebuilt by Sir Charles Barry in the 1840s.
Duplex (building)
A duplex (plural duplexes), also called a duplex house, is a single residential building containing two complete dwelling units, each with its own kitchen, bathroom, and entrance, arranged side by side or stacked.
Durham Cathedral
Durham Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of the Diocese of Durham in north-east England, built between 1093 and 1133 to house the shrine of St Cuthbert.
DuSable Bridge
The DuSable Bridge, long known as the Michigan Avenue Bridge, is a double-deck bascule bridge carrying Michigan Avenue over the Chicago River, opened in 1920.
Düsseldorf Stadtbahn
The Düsseldorf Stadtbahn is Düsseldorf's light rail system, eleven Rheinbahn-operated lines on about 6.9 km of tunnel through the center, some reaching Neuss, Krefeld, and Duisburg.
Dutch Dike reinforcement programmes (HWBP)
The Dutch Dike reinforcement programs, or Hoogwaterbeschermingsprogramma (HWBP), is the national program launched in 2014 to bring all Dutch primary flood defenses up to statutory safety standards by 2050.
Dutch door
A Dutch door is a door split horizontally into two halves that can open separately or latch together, letting air in while keeping children and animals out.
Dwarkadhish Temple
The Dwarkadhish Temple, also called Jagat Mandir, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Krishna at Dwarka in Gujarat, India, one of the Char Dham pilgrimage sites.
Dworshak Dam
Dworshak Dam is a 717-foot-high concrete gravity dam on the North Fork Clearwater River at Ahsahka, Idaho, the third tallest dam in the United States.
Dworshak National Fish Hatchery
Dworshak National Fish Hatchery is a federal salmon and steelhead hatchery near Ahsahka, Idaho, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1969 to compensate for habitat blocked by Dworshak Dam.
Dyess Air Force Base
Dyess Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in Abilene, Texas, opened in 1956 and named for Lt. Col. William Dyess, a Bataan prisoner of war who escaped.
Dynamic compaction
Dynamic compaction is a ground improvement method that densifies loose soils and fills by repeatedly dropping heavy tampers from a crane, used on embankments, landfills, reclaimed land, and liquefaction-prone sands.
Dynamic modulus (asphalt mixtures)
The dynamic modulus of an asphalt mixture, written |E|, measures asphalt concrete stiffness across temperatures and loading rates, and is a required stiffness input to the MEPDG.
Dzong architecture
Dzong architecture (Dzongkha: རྫོང་) is the Bhutanese tradition of building massive fortified complexes housing both a monastic community and district government offices, a form systematized in the 17th century by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal.
E. Montford Fucik
E. Montford (Ed) Fucik (1914–2010) was an American civil engineer who led Harza Engineering Company as president and chairman and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.
Ea-Damkina temple (Kalhu)
Ea-Damkina temple (Kalhu): shrine of the god Ea-šarru and goddess Damkina, one of nine temples built by Assurnasirpal II at Kalhu (Nimrud, Iraq), in the ziggurat precinct of the citadel.
Eads Bridge
The Eads Bridge is a three-span steel arch bridge carrying road and rail across the Mississippi between St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, completed in 1874.
Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl
Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl (Primeros monasterios del siglo XVI en las laderas del Popocatépetl): UNESCO World Heritage serial site of 15 Franciscan, Dominican and Augustinian monasteries in Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala, inscribed 1994, extended 2021, criteria (ii) and (iv).
Earls Court Exhibition Centre
Earls Court Exhibition Centre was a pair of linked exhibition and concert halls in west London, opened in 1937, which hosted 2012 Olympic volleyball and was demolished by 2017.