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Environment Agency
The Environment Agency, known in Welsh as Asiantaeth yr Amgylchedd, is the environmental regulator of England, created in 1995 and responsible for flood risk and water quality.
Environmental impact of concrete
The environmental impact of concrete comes chiefly from Portland cement, made by heating limestone and clay, which releases CO2 equal to roughly 8% of global emissions.
Enzyme induced carbonate precipitation
Enzyme induced carbonate precipitation (EICP) is a ground improvement method in which urease enzyme catalyzes calcium carbonate precipitation, bonding soil particles to strengthen sands, control dust, and heal cracks.
Equitable Building (Manhattan)
The Equitable Building is a 38-story office skyscraper completed in 1915 at 120 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, then the world's largest office building and a catalyst for New York's 1916 Zoning Resolution.
Equivalent single axle load
An equivalent single axle load (ESAL) is a pavement design unit converting any axle's damage into equivalent 18,000-pound single axle loads, the standard traffic input for AASHTO 1993 design.
Erdene Zuu Monastery
Erdene Zuu Monastery (Эрдэнэ Зуу, "Jewel Temple") is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Kharkhorin, Mongolia, founded in 1586 by Abtai Sain Khan on the site of Karakorum.
Erfurt latrine disaster
The Erfurt latrine disaster (Erfurter Latrinensturz) was the collapse of a wooden floor in Erfurt on 26 July 1184, dropping nobles assembled for King Henry VI into a latrine cesspit, where about 60 died.
Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a waterway in New York State linking the Hudson River at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo, opened in 1825 and now used mainly by recreational boaters.
Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex
The Erie Canal Lock 52 Complex is a historic district at Port Byron, New York, preserving a double-chamber Enlarged Erie Canal lock used from 1853 to 1917.
Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor is a National Heritage Area in upstate New York, designated by Congress in 2000 to preserve and promote its canal system.
Ernest Hemingway House
The Ernest Hemingway House, also called the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, is a historic house museum at 907 Whitehead Street in Key West, Florida.
Escalator
An escalator, also known as a moving staircase or moving stairway, is a power-driven set of moving stairs that continuously carries standing passengers between the levels of a building.
Eshima Ohashi Bridge (江島大橋)
The Eshima Ohashi Bridge (江島大橋) is a 1.7 km road bridge across Lake Nakaumi, connecting Matsue in Shimane Prefecture with Sakaiminato in Tottori, opened in 2004.
Estadio Monumental (Buenos Aires)
The Estadio Monumental, officially Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti, is River Plate's stadium in Buenos Aires and the largest in South America, hosting the 1978 World Cup final.
Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Estadio Olímpico Universitario is a stadium on the UNAM campus in Mexico City, opened in 1952, the main venue of the 1968 Olympics and home of Pumas UNAM.
Eugène Belgrand
Eugène Belgrand (1810–1878) was a French engineer and geologist who built the water supply and sewer networks of Paris under Baron Haussmann during the Second Empire.
Eugene J. Peltier
Eugene Joseph Peltier (1910–2004) was an American civil engineer and US Navy rear admiral who served as chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks from 1957 to 1962.
Eugene Sevin
Eugene Sevin (born 1928) is an American civil and structural engineer known for work on shock and vibration isolation and blast-resistant design, including the 1971 monograph Optimum Shock and Vibration Isolation.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1814–1879) was a French Gothic Revival architect and theorist who led the restorations of Notre-Dame de Paris and the Cité de Carcassonne.
Eupalinos (Εὐπαλίνος)
Eupalinos (Εὐπαλίνος) of Megara, son of Naustrophus, 6th-century BC Greek engineer named by Herodotus as designer of the Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos, an aqueduct tunnel about 1,036 m long dug from both ends under Polycrates, meeting with only 64 cm error.
Eurasia Tunnel
The Eurasia Tunnel (Avrasya Tüneli) is a 5.4 km double-deck toll road tunnel beneath the Bosphorus in Istanbul, connecting Kazlıçeşme on the European side with Göztepe on the Asian side.
Eureka Tower
Eureka Tower is a 297.3-meter residential skyscraper in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Australia, completed in 2006 by Fender Katsalidis and once the world's tallest residential building.
Eurocode
The Eurocodes are a series of 10 European Standards, EN 1990 to EN 1999, for the structural design of buildings and civil engineering works across Europe.
European Council of Civil Engineers
The European Council of Civil Engineers, founded in 1985 by four national bodies, represents civil engineers toward EU institutions and national governments and works to foster uniformly high professional standards.
European Engineer
European Engineer (EUR ING) is a professional title awarded since 1987 by ENGINEERS EUROPE, formerly FEANI, to experienced engineers who meet a common standard of competence across Europe.
European Water Framework Directive
The European Water Framework Directive, or WFD, is the main EU law for water protection, adopted in 2000 to achieve good status for all water bodies.
EurOtop
EurOtop, the Manual on wave overtopping of sea defenses and related structures, is European engineering guidance for predicting wave overtopping at seawalls, dikes, and breakwaters.
Euston Square tube station
Euston Square, or Euston Square Underground station, is a London Underground station in Camden on Euston Road, served by the Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines.
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also called the Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, carries State Route 520 across Lake Washington in Seattle, connecting Montlake and Medina; it opened in 1963.
Evidence-based design
Evidence-based design (EBD) is a design methodology that bases decisions about built environments, especially healthcare facilities, on the best available research evidence about effects on health, safety, and well-being.