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Colorado River Storage Project
Human Genome Project scientists
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RepRap project
Siemens Mobility projects
3DBenchy
3DBenchyAlaskan Way Seawall
Alberta SuperNet
Apollo program
Apollo programList of aqueducts
Big Dig
The Central Artery/Tunnel Project
Bradfield Scheme
Bradfield SchemeCentral Utah Project Completion Act
Extreme Engineering
Fab@Home
Falcon 9 first-stage landing tests
FarmBot
FarmBotGansu Wind Farm
Gansu Wind FarmProject Gemini
Project GeminiHoover Dam
Hoover DamHuntley Project
Husab Mine
Husab MineLake Champlain Seaway
Lasersaur
List of transport megaprojects
Mega Builders
Megaproject
List of megaprojects
Megascale engineering
National Ignition Facility
Niagara Tunnel Project
Open Source Ecology
Open Source EcologyProject Orion (nuclear propulsion)
Project Pluto
Rio Grande Project
Rio Grande ProjectRussiaâUkraine barrier
San Juan-Chama Project
San Juan-Chama ProjectAmasa Stone Bishop
Amasa Stone BishopProject Sherwood
Snowy Mountains Scheme
Snowy Mountains SchemeSpaceX reusable launch system development program
SpaceX reusable launch system development programSpektr-RG
Spektr-RGSpier Falls Dam
Suhua Highway Improvement Project
Tantangara Dam
Tantangara DamTrump wall
Executive Order 13767Tunnel and Reservoir Plan
Uinta Basin Replacement Project
White House Big Dig
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WikipediaThe 3DBenchy is a 3D computer model specifically designed for testing the accuracy and capabilities of 3D printers. The 3DBenchy is described by its creator, Creative Tools, as 'the jolly 3D printing torture-test' and was released in April 2015 with a multi part model released in July 2015. A 3DBenchy printed on a fus ... Read »
WikipediaThe Alaskan Way Seawall is a seawall which runs for approximately 7,166 feet (2,184Â m) along the Elliott Bay waterfront southwest of downtown Seattle from Bay Street to S. Washington Street. The seawall is being rebuilt in the 2010s as part of a waterfront redevelopment megaproject estimated to cost over one billion ... Read »
WikipediaThe Alberta SuperNet is a high speed performance network connecting 429 communities in both urban and rural Alberta. The network consists of over 13,000 kilometers of trenched fibre optic cables and 2,000 kilometers of high-speed wireless links. One of the two main network components is owned and operated by Bell Canad ... Read »
WikipediaThe Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a th ... Read »
WikipediaNanzen-ji Temple, Kyoto The unique Tokaanu Tailrace Bridge, a combined road and water bridge crosses a power canal of the Tongariro Power Scheme in the North Island of New Zealand. State Highway 41 travels along the top of this bridge, with the Tokaanu Stream, an important trout spawning stream, running under the ... Read »
WikipediaThe Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), known unofficially as the Big Dig, was a megaproject in Boston that rerouted the Central Artery (Interstate 93), as the chief highway through the heart of the city, into the 3.5-mile (5.6Â km) Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel. The project also included the construction of the Ted ... Read »
WikipediaThe Bradfield Scheme, a proposed Australian water diversion scheme, is an inland irrigation project that was designed to irrigate and drought-proof much of the western Queensland interior, as well as large areas of South Australia. It was devised by Dr John Bradfield (1867â1943), a Queensland born civil engineer, ... Read »
WikipediaThe Central Utah Project Completion Act (CUPCA) (P.L. 102-575), enacted on October 30, 1992, removed responsibility for completing the Central Utah Project (CUP), a federal water project, from the United States Bureau of Reclamation. The Central Utah Project Completion Act then distributed responsibility for the projec ... Read »
WikipediaExtreme Engineering was a documentary television series that aired on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. The program featured futuristic and ongoing engineering projects. The series' last season aired in July 2011. Danny Forster first hosted the series in season 4 and has been the host since season 6. ... Read »
WikipediaFab@Home was the first multi-material 3D printer available to the public, and one of the first two open-source DIY 3D printers (the other one being the RepRap). Up until 2005, all 3D printers were industrial scale, expensive and proprietary. The high cost and closed nature of the 3D printing industry at the time limite ... Read »
WikipediaThe Falcon 9 first-stage landing tests are a series of controlled-descent flight tests that have been conducted by SpaceX since 2013. The program's objective is to reliably execute controlled re-entry, descent and landing (EDL) of the Falcon 9 first stage into Earth's atmosphere after the stage completes the boost phas ... Read »
WikipediaFarmBot is an open source precision agriculture CNC farming project consisting of a cartesean coordinate robot farming machine, software and documentation including a farming data repository. The project aims to "Create an open and accessible technology aiding everyone to grow food and to grow food for everyone." FarmB ... Read »
WikipediaThe Gansu Wind Farm Project or Jiuquan Wind Power Base is a group of large wind farms under the construction in western Gansu province in China (40°12â²N 96°54â²E / 40.2°N 96.9°E / 40.2; 96.9 40°36â²N 96°54â²E / 40.6°N 96.9°E / 40.6; 96.9, 40 ... Read »
Wikipedia2: Project Gemini was NASA's second human spaceflight program. It was a United States space program that started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo. The Gemini spacecraft carried a two-astronaut crew. Ten crews flew low Earth orbit (LEO) missions between 196 ... Read »
Wikipedia$49 million (1931) 13Ã 130 MW 2Ã 127 MW 1Ã 68.5 MW 1Ã 61.5 MW Francis-type 2Ã 2.4 MW Pelton-type Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 ... Read »
WikipediaThe Huntley Project is an irrigation project in southern Montana that was established by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in 1907. The district includes the towns of HuntleyCoordinates: 45°53â²58â³N 108°18â²05â³W / 45.89944°N 108.30139°W / 45.89944; -108.30139 ... Read »
WikipediaThe Husab Mine, also known as the Husab Uranium Project, is a uranium mine under development near the town of Swakopmund in the Erongo region of western-central Namibia. The mine is located approximately 60 kilometres (37Â mi) from Walvis Bay. The Husab Mine is expected to be the second largest uranium mine in the wo ... Read »
WikipediaThe Lake Champlain Seaway was a canal project proposed in the late 19th century and considered as late as the 1960s to connect New York State's Hudson River and Quebec's St. Lawrence River with a deep-water canal. The objective was to allow easy ship traffic from New York City to Montreal through Lake Champlain, loweri ... Read »
WikipediaLasersaur is an open source laser cutter which was developed by NORTD Labs. Nortd Labs started shipping Lasersaur alpha kits in late 2010 after successful funding of the project in July 2010 on Kickstarter. Currently the project is funded via donations from their website or by purchasing part kits. Lasersaur an op ... Read »
WikipediaThis is a list of transport megaprojects. Care should be taken in comparing the cost of projects from different times, even a few years apart due to inflation; comparing nominal costs without taking this into account can be highly misleading. The size and scope of projects varies considerably; some projects are made u ... Read »
WikipediaMega Builders is a documentary television series appearing on the Discovery Channel and Science Channel. Each episode takes a look into the people and the machines involved into the construction of many huge engineering projects. ... Read »
WikipediaA megaproject is an extremely large-scale investment project. "Megaprojects are temporary endeavours (i.e. projects) characterized by: large investment commitment, vast complexity (especially in organizational terms), and long-lasting impact on the economy, the environment, and society". The European Cooperation in Sc ... Read »
WikipediaThis is a list of megaprojects. "Megaprojects are temporary endeavours (i.e. projects) characterized by: large investment commitment, vast complexity (especially in organizational terms), and long-lasting impact on the economy, the environment, and society". The number of such projects is so large that the list may nev ... Read »
WikipediaMegascale engineering (or macro-engineering) is a form of exploratory engineering concerned with the construction of structures on an enormous scale. Typically these structures are at least 1,000 kilometers in lengthâin other words, at least 1 megameter, hence the name. Such large-scale structures are termed megas ... Read »
WikipediaThe National Ignition Facility, or NIF, is a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. NIF uses lasers to heat and compress a small amount of hydrogen fuel to the point where nuclear fusion reactions take place. N ... Read »
WikipediaThe Niagara Tunnel Project was part of a series of major additions to the Sir Adam Beck hydroelectric generation complex in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Water delivered by the major new underground tunnel complements other upgrades to the Sir Adam Beck generating complex, resulting in a significant increase to the ... Read »
WikipediaOpen Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers, architects and supporters, whose main goal is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). As described by Open Source Ecology "the GVCS is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different I ... Read »
WikipediaProject Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft (nuclear pulse propulsion). Early versions of this vehicle were proposed to take off from the ground with significant associated nuclear fallout; later versions were presented for use o ... Read »
WikipediaProject Pluto was a United States government program to develop nuclear powered ramjet engines for use in cruise missiles. Two experimental engines were tested at the United States Department of Energy Nevada Test Site (NTS) in 1961 and 1964. On January 1, 1957, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commis ... Read »
WikipediaThe Rio Grande Project is a United States Bureau of Reclamation irrigation, hydroelectricity, flood control, and interbasin water transfer project serving the upper Rio Grande basin in the southwestern United States. The project irrigates 193,000 acres (780Â km2) along the river in the states of New Mexico and Texas. ... Read »
WikipediaThe San Juan-Chama Project is a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation interbasin water transfer project located in the states of New Mexico and Colorado in the United States. The project consists of a series of tunnels and diversions that take water from the drainage basin of the San Juan River â a tributary of the Colorado ... Read »
WikipediaAmasa Stone Bishop (1921 â May 21, 1997) was an American nuclear physicist specializing in fusion physics. He received his B.S. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1943. From 1943 to 1946 he was a member of the staff of Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where ... Read »
WikipediaProject Sherwood was the codename for a United States program in controlled nuclear fusion. It was funded under the Atoms for Peace initiative during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The name Sherwood was suggested by Paul McDaniel, Deputy Director of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), since fundi ... Read »
WikipediaThe Snowy Mountains scheme or Snowy scheme is a hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in south-east Australia. The Scheme consists of sixteen major dams; seven power stations; two pumping stations; and 225 kilometres (140Â mi) of tunnels, pipelines and aqueducts that were constructed between 1949 and 1974. The Sche ... Read »
WikipediaThe SpaceX reusable launch system development program is a privately funded program to develop a set of new technologies for an orbital launch system that may be reused many times in a manner similar to the reusability of aircraft. The company SpaceX is developing the technologies over a number of years to facilitate f ... Read »
WikipediaSpektr-RG (Russian for Spectrum + Röntgen + Gamma; also called Spectrum-X-Gamma, SRG, SXG) is an international high-energy astrophysics observatory, which is being built under the leadership of the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI). Spektr-RG instrumentation includes 5 telescopes spanning the energy range from ... Read »
WikipediaThe Spier Falls Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Hudson River between the towns of Moreau, New York and Lake Luzerne, New York. The dam was built by the Hudson River Water Power Company. The chief engineer was Charles E. Parsons of Glens Falls. Construction started in 1900 and completed in 1903 at a total cost of ... Read »
WikipediaThe Suhua Highway Improvement Project (Chinese: èè±å ¬è·¯æ¹åè¨ç«; pinyin: SÅ«-HuÄ GÅnglù GÇishà n Jìhuà ; colloquially èè±æ¹, pinyin: SÅ«huÄgÇi) is a major highway project in northeast Taiwan to improve and bypass dangerous sections of the Suhua ... Read »
WikipediaTantangara Dam is a major ungated concrete gravity dam with concrete chute spillway across the Murrumbidgee River upstream of Adaminaby in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia. The dam is part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Aus ... Read »
WikipediaExecutive Order 13767, titled Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements, is an executive order issued by United States President Donald Trump on January 25, 2017. The order directs a wall to be built along the MexicoâUnited States border. However, Congress has not appropriated funds for such a wall ... Read »
WikipediaThe Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (abbreviated TARP and more commonly known as the Deep Tunnel Project or the Chicago Deep Tunnel) is a large civil engineering project that aims to reduce flooding in the metropolitan Chicago area, and to reduce the harmful effects of flushing raw sewage into Lake Michigan by diverting stor ... Read »
WikipediaIn Section 203(a) of the Central Utah Project Completion Act, the United States Congress authorized a federally authorized and funded replacement project to replace the Uinta and Upalco Units of the Central Utah Project (CUP) which were not constructed. The replacement project is the Uinta Basin Replacement Project (UB ... Read »
WikipediaThe White House Big Dig was the name used in press reports to describe a multi-year construction project at the White House that began in September 2010 and temporarily concluded in 2012, with a second phase planned for the future. According to the General Services Administration (GSA), the $376-million project, which ... Read »
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