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Jin Mao Tower (金茂大厦)
Jin Mao Tower (金茂大厦), also known as Jinmao Building, is a 420.5-meter, 88-story skyscraper in Pudong, Shanghai, completed in 1999 and then the tallest building in China.
Jinpari Tomb No. 1
Jinpari Tomb No. 1 (진파리 1호분) is a 6th-century Goguryeo mural tomb in Jinpa-ri near Pyongyang, known for four guardian deities and early landscape painting.
Jinping-I Dam
Jinping-I Dam, also known as Jinping-I Hydropower Station, is a 305 m arch dam on the Yalong River in Sichuan, China, the world's highest, completed in 2013.
Jintang Bridge
Jintang Bridge (金塘大桥) is a cable-stayed road bridge in Zhejiang, China, opened in 2009 to connect Jintang Island with Zhenhai District of Ningbo as part of the Zhoushan Cross-Sea Bridge.
Johannesburg water supply system
The Johannesburg water supply system is the bulk infrastructure delivering water to Johannesburg and Gauteng, anchored on the Vaal River and run by Rand Water, established in 1903.
John A. Focht Jr.
John A. Focht Jr., born John Arnold Focht Jr. (1923–2010), was a Houston geotechnical engineer who led McClelland Engineers, designed Texas dams, and served as ASCE president.
John A. Roebling
John A. Roebling, born Johann August Röbling in 1806, was a German-born American civil engineer who invented wire rope and designed suspension bridges, including the Brooklyn Bridge.
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge
The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, also called the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge, is an 1867 suspension bridge over the Ohio River linking Covington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio.
John Findley Wallace
John Findley Wallace, known as John F. Wallace, was an American civil engineer and the first Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal, serving from 1904 to 1905.
John Frank Stevens
John Frank Stevens (1853–1943) was an American civil engineer who built the Great Northern Railway and served as chief engineer of the Panama Canal from 1905 to 1907.
John Hancock Center
The John Hancock Center, now officially 875 North Michigan Avenue, is a 100-story, 344-meter mixed-use skyscraper on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, completed in 1969 and known for its exterior X-bracing.
John Hancock Tower
The John Hancock Tower, officially 200 Clarendon Street, is a 790-foot mirrored-glass skyscraper in Boston designed by Henry N. Cobb, opened in 1976 as New England's tallest building.
John Lloyd Wright
John Lloyd Wright (John Kenneth Wright, 1892–1972) was an American architect, the second son of Frank Lloyd Wright, best known as the inventor of Lincoln Logs, patented in 1920.
John M. Kulicki
John M. Kulicki is an American bridge engineer who led development of the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.
John Rennie the Elder
John Rennie the Elder was a Scottish civil engineer (1761–1821) who designed canals, docks, and harbors across Britain. He is best known for the three Thames bridges.
John Smeaton
John Smeaton (1724–1792) was an English engineer from near Leeds who designed the third Eddystone Lighthouse and became the first person to describe himself as a civil engineer.
John W. Fondahl
John W. Fondahl (1924–2008) was an American civil engineer and Stanford professor who developed the precedence diagramming method of project scheduling and co-founded one of the first graduate programs in construction management.
Johnson Wax Headquarters
Johnson Wax Headquarters, also known as the Johnson Wax Building, is the S. C. Johnson & Son headquarters campus in Racine, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Johor–Singapore Causeway
The Johor–Singapore Causeway, also known as the Johor Causeway, is a 1,056-meter road and rail crossing of the Johor Strait between Singapore and Malaysia, opened in 1924.
Joist
A joist is a horizontal structural member that supports a floor or ceiling, running in parallel rows between beams or walls. Wood I-joists, first made in 1969, span farther than sawn lumber.
Jokhang
Jokhang (ཇོ་ཁང་, 大昭寺) is a Buddhist temple in central Lhasa, Tibet, founded in the 7th century and regarded as Tibet's holiest shrine; it houses the sacred Jowo Shakyamuni statue.
Jon Edward Khachaturian
Jon Edward Khachaturian is an American civil engineer, founder and CEO of Versabar, Inc., elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 for innovative heavy lifting systems.
Jørn Utzon
Jørn Utzon (1918–2008) was a Danish architect best known for the Sydney Opera House, whose shell roofs he resolved through spherical geometry before resigning in 1966.
José Fernandes Pinto Alpoim
José Fernandes Pinto Alpoim was a Portuguese military engineer (1700–1765) who designed the Paço Imperial and planned Mariana, and whose artillery course is seen as the embryo of engineering education in Brazil.
Joseph Bazalgette
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819–1891) was an English civil engineer who, as chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, built the sewers and Thames embankments that ended the city's cholera epidemics.
Joseph T. Ling
Joseph T. Ling (1919–2006) was a Chinese-born American environmental engineer who led pollution control at 3M and created its Pollution Prevention Pays program in 1975.
Jota Samper
Jota Samper (José Jaime Samper Escobar) is a Colombian architect and urban planner from Medellín, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder known for the Atlas of Informality.
Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
The Journal of Construction Engineering and Management is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, covering research in construction engineering and construction management.
Journal of Engineering Mechanics
The Journal of Engineering Mechanics is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, covering applied mechanics as it relates to civil engineering since 1956.
Journal of Environmental Engineering
The Journal of Environmental Engineering is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, covering wastewater treatment, contaminant transport, and hazardous and solid waste research.