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Masonry
Masonry is a construction method in which brick, block, or stone units are laid and bonded with mortar, in use for more than 8,000 years.
Masonry dam
A masonry dam is a dam whose main structure is coursed stone or brick set in mortar, built as a gravity, buttress, or arch design.
Masrur Temples
The Masrur Temples, also called the Masroor Temples, are early 8th-century Hindu temples monolithically carved in Nagara style in the Kangra Valley of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Mass concrete
Mass concrete is any concrete volume where heat of hydration cannot dissipate quickly, raising temperature enough to risk cracking; the ACI sets no size threshold.
Massachusetts State House
The Massachusetts State House is the state capitol of Massachusetts at 24 Beacon Street in Boston, housing the legislature and governor. Charles Bulfinch designed it, completed in 1798.
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is a Massachusetts public authority providing wholesale drinking water and sewer services to 61 eastern Massachusetts communities since 1985.
MasTec
MasTec, Inc. is a North American infrastructure engineering and construction company headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, formed in 1994 and listed on the NYSE, with 2024 revenue of $12.3 billion.
MasterFormat
MasterFormat is a standardized list of numbers and titles for organizing construction specifications and project manuals, published jointly by CSI in the United States and CSC in Canada.
Matilija Dam removal project
The Matilija Dam removal project is a planned effort to remove the obsolete 1947 Matilija Dam in Ventura County, California, reopening spawning habitat for endangered Southern California steelhead.
Matthys P. Levy
Matthys P. Levy is a Swiss-born American structural engineer, founding principal of Weidlinger Associates, known for the Georgia Dome's tensegrity cable roof and the World Trade Center collapse investigation.
Maulbronn Monastery
Maulbronn Monastery (Kloster Maulbronn) is a former Cistercian abbey in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, founded in 1147 and regarded as the best-preserved medieval monastic complex north of the Alps, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi is an unfinished Timurid mausoleum-mosque in Turkistan, Kazakhstan, built by order of Timur over the 12th-century tomb of the Sufi poet Ahmed Yasawi.
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (秦始皇陵) is the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, near Xi'an, and home of the Terracotta Army.
Max Gate
Max Gate, Dorchester, Dorset: red-brick Victorian house designed by Thomas Hardy, built 1883-1885, his home until his 1928 death; Grade I listed, National Trust, over the Neolithic Flagstones enclosure.
Maya corbel vault
The Maya corbel vault, also called the corbeled arch or false arch, is a stone roofing method of overlapping courses, used from 600 BC to 1500 AD.
McAlpine Locks and Dam
McAlpine Locks and Dam, also known as McAlpine Dam, is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lock and dam complex on the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky.
McMansion
A McMansion, sometimes called a starter castle, is a very large, mass-produced suburban house, typically built from the 1980s onward and criticized as ostentatious and lacking architectural integrity.
McNichols Sports Arena
McNichols Sports Arena, nicknamed Big Mac, was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Denver, Colorado, home to the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche from 1975 until 1999.
Means of egress
A means of egress is the continuous, unobstructed path from any occupied part of a building to a public way, comprising the exit access, exit, and exit discharge.
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) is the construction-industry term for the engineering systems that make a building usable: air conditioning, power and lighting, and water supply and drainage.
Mechanically stabilized earth
Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) is a geotechnical construction method that reinforces compacted soil with steel strips or geosynthetics to build retaining walls and bridge abutments.
Mechanistic-empirical pavement design
Mechanistic-empirical pavement design is a pavement engineering method that computes stresses and strains in a trial road structure, then predicts distresses like rutting and cracking over time.
Medici Chapel
The Medici Chapel (Cappelle Medicee) is the funerary complex of the Medici family at San Lorenzo in Florence, comprising Michelangelo's New Sacristy and the Baroque Chapel of the Princes.
Medieval dams of Yemen and the Maghreb
The medieval dams of Yemen and the Maghreb were small gravity dams, weirs, and earthen embankments built under Islamic rule after the Marib Dam's decline.
Medieval fortification
Medieval fortification is the defensive architecture built in Europe between roughly the 5th and 15th centuries, dominated by the castle, whose design evolved against siege warfare.
Meenakshi Temple (மீனாட்சி)
Meenakshi Temple, also called Meenakshi Amman Temple (மீனாட்சி), is a historic Hindu temple in central Madurai, Tamil Nadu, dedicated to Meenakshi, a form of Parvati, and Sundareswarar, a form of Shiva.
Megaproject
A megaproject, also called a gigaproject or megainfrastructure, is an extremely large investment project, typically over $1 billion, common in energy, transport, and water infrastructure.
Megastructure
A megastructure is an architectural concept in which one very large structural frame houses a city's buildings, transportation, and public facilities, coined by Fumihiko Maki in 1964.
Mehrangarh (मेहरानगढ़)
Mehrangarh Fort (मेहरानगढ़), the Jodhpur fort, is a hill fort in Rajasthan, India, founded in 1459 by Rao Jodha and one of the largest forts in the state.
Meijer
Meijer is a family-owned American supercenter chain headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1934, it pioneered the supercenter format in 1962 and now runs more than 500 stores.