Structural
A structure that spans a gap.
What is a bridge?
A limited access, high speed, multi-lane road meant for passenger vehicles and freight.
What is a highway?
This term describes water that falls from the atmosphere as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
Geotechnical engineers study this material to determine whether the ground can support a structure.
What is soil?
This branch of civil engineering focuses on protecting human health and the natural environment from pollution.
What is Environmental engineering?
This iconic bridge is the second longest suspension bridge in the United States.
What is the Golden Gate bridge?
A low speed passenger vehicle that runs on rails in a street or road.
What is a street car / tram?
A large barrier to hold back water.
What is a dam?
This word describes how easily water can flow through soil.
What is permeability?
This process removes contaminants from sewage and wastewater before the water is released or reused.
What is wastewater treatment?
A shape that is used in trusses because of its structural stability.
What is a triangle?
A Texas state agency responsible for the construction and design of highways
What is the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)?
This piece of infrastructure is designed to control flooding.
What are channels, ditches, or storm sewers?
This type of failure can occur when a slope becomes unstable and soil or rock moves downhill.
What is a slope failure or landslide?
A substance that causes harm when it enters an environment.
What is a pollutant?
The One World Trade Center also known as the Freedom Tower is this symbolic height.
What is 1776 feet tall?
This subway system is the biggest in the world spanning over 800km.
What is the Shanghai metro?
This is the portion of precipitation that flows over the ground surface rather than infiltrating into the soil.
What is runoff?
The base of a structure meant to hold up a building.
What is foundation?
This term describes the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted directly or indirectly by an individual, organization, or product.
What is a carbon footprint?
The weight of a bridge on itself is known as this load.
What is the dead load?
A short range automated public transit vehicle.
What is a people mover?
This is the study of how water moves through the environment?
What is hydrology?
Engineers perform this process to make the ground denser.
What is compaction?
This eco-friendly process uses living organisms, like bacteria, fungi, or plants, to clean up polluted soil, water, and environments.
What is bioremediation?