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Evides
Evides (Evides Waterbedrijf) is a Dutch drinking water company headquartered in Rotterdam that supplies about 2.5 million people and major industries, the second largest in the Netherlands.
Expanded granular sludge bed digestion
Expanded granular sludge bed digestion is a high-rate anaerobic wastewater treatment process using a tall upflow reactor of granular sludge, developed from the UASB reactor in the late 1980s.
Exploratorium
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco, founded by physicist Frank Oppenheimer in 1969 and known for hands-on, interactive exhibits.
Extended aeration
Extended aeration is a low-rate modification of the activated sludge wastewater treatment process with long aeration times, most commonly built as oxidation ditches or package plants serving small communities.
Extensometer
An extensometer is an instrument that measures the change in distance between two points, from laboratory strain testing to borehole monitoring of ground movement around tunnels.
Exterior insulation and finishing system
The exterior insulation and finishing system (EIFS), also called synthetic stucco, is a wall cladding combining insulation board, reinforced base coat, and textured finish, developed in Europe after World War II.
Extradosed bridge
An extradosed bridge is a concrete bridge whose stay cables pass over low pylons above the deck, combining a stiff prestressed box girder with a modest amount of cable support.
Extradosed bridges of Asia
Extradosed bridges of Asia covers the prestressed concrete girder bridges whose tendons pass over short masts, first built in Japan in 1994 and later adopted across China, India, and Thailand.
Eysturoyartunnilin
Eysturoyartunnilin, the Eysturoy tunnel, earlier Skálafjarðartunnilin, is an 11.2 km subsea road tunnel connecting Tórshavn on Streymoy to Eysturoy, opened in 2020 with the world's first subsea roundabout.
Fabrication of immersed tube tunnel elements
Fabrication of immersed tube tunnel elements is the prefabrication of complete tunnel sections before immersion: steel shells built like ships, concrete boxes cast in basins near the site.
Façade
A façade is the main exterior face of a building, especially the front, serving both as an architectural composition and as an engineered outer skin that sheds rain and resists wind.
Face support and ground conditioning in shield tunnelling
Face support and ground conditioning keep the soil at a shield tunnel's face stable, using pressurized conditioned soil in EPB shields or bentonite slurry in slurry shields.
Factor of safety
The factor of safety, also called the safety factor, is the dimensionless ratio by which a structure's capacity exceeds the load applied to it in engineering design.
Fagus Factory
The Fagus Factory (German: Fagus-Werk) is a ten-building shoe-last factory in Alfeld, Germany, designed by Walter Gropius from around 1910 and still in operation, a landmark of modern architecture.
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is a luxury hotel brand owned by Paris-based Accor, tracing its name to 1907, with landmark hotels including Fairmont Banff Springs and the Fairmont San Francisco.
Faisal Mosque (فیصل مسجد)
The Faisal Mosque (فیصل مسجد), also known as Shah Faisal Mosque, is the national mosque of Pakistan in Islamabad, completed in 1986 and the world's largest mosque until 1993.
Fakhr al-Din Mosque
The Fakhr al-Din Mosque, also written Fakhruddin Mosque, is a medieval mosque in the Hamar Weyne quarter of Mogadishu, Somalia, dated to 1269 and known for marble imported from India.
Falaknuma Palace
Falaknuma Palace is a marble hilltop palace about 5 km south of Hyderabad's Charminar in Telangana, India, built from 1884 for the Paigah noble Nawab Vikar-ul-Umra.
Falcon Reservoir
Falcon Reservoir, officially Falcon International Reservoir and commonly Falcon Lake, impounds the Rio Grande on the Texas–Mexico border; it was completed in 1954 and is managed jointly by the two countries.
Fale – Polynesia
A fale is the traditional Samoan house, an oval or circular structure with a domed thatched roof on wooden posts and no permanent walls, only woven blinds.
Falkirk Wheel
The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift in Falkirk, Scotland, opened in 2002 to connect the Forth & Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, 24 meters higher.
Falling weight deflectometer
A falling weight deflectometer (FWD) is a nondestructive pavement testing device that drops a weight onto the surface to simulate a moving truck and measure deflections.
Fallingwater
Fallingwater is a Frank Lloyd Wright house built between 1936 and 1939 over a waterfall on Bear Run in southwestern Pennsylvania for the Kaufmann family of Pittsburgh.
Fallout shelter
A fallout shelter, also known as a nuclear fallout shelter, is an enclosed space protecting occupants from radioactive fallout after a nuclear explosion, often a basement.
Falmer Stadium
Falmer Stadium, known as the American Express Stadium or the Amex, is the home ground of Brighton & Hove Albion in Falmer on the eastern edge of Brighton, England.
Farakka Barrage (ফরাক্কা ব্যারাজ)
Farakka Barrage (ফরাক্কা ব্যারাজ), also called Farakka dam, is a 2,245-meter barrage across the Ganga in West Bengal, India, commissioned in 1975 to divert water toward Kolkata port.
Fargo–Moorhead flood diversion project
The Fargo–Moorhead flood diversion project, officially the FM Area Diversion, is a flood-control project that will divert Red River floodwater around Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota.
Farnsworth House
The Farnsworth House is a glass and steel house in Plano, Illinois, designed by Mies van der Rohe for Dr. Edith Farnsworth and built from 1949 to 1951.
Fatberg
A fatberg is a solid mass of congealed fat, oil, grease, and wet wipes that blocks sewer pipes, named by London sewer workers and known since 2013.
Fatih Mosque, Istanbul
The Fatih Mosque (Fatih Camii) is a congregational mosque in Istanbul, built on the order of Sultan Mehmed II after his conquest of Constantinople in 1453.