THE seventeen sections into which the volume is divided cover the whole field of civil engineering, together with mathematical tables, mechanics, physics, meteorology, and weights and measures. The ...

Civil engineers shape communities and protect natural habitats by creating buildings, protecting coastlines and waterways, supplying clean energy, providing access to clean water and sanitation, and ...

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FOR the past twenty years or so “Merriman's Pocket Book”—to give its original title—has been familiar as a useful compendium of American practice in civil engineering, sharing the field with Trautwine ...

Civil engineering is the design and construction of public works, such as dams, bridges and other large infrastructure projects. It is one of the oldest branches of engineering, dating back to when ...