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Archive copy at the Property Services Agency. The Design Standards office in the Property Services Agency (PSA) pioneered a system of quality assurance (QA) in accordance with BS 5750. Here design examples...
Looks at research work funded and supported by the Environment Committee in SERC and explains the need for such research and the practical benefits that can follow. Examines six specific projects in flood...
Describes and analyses the devastating fire at Bradford City Football Ground on 11 May 1985 in the aftermath of the investigation by the Fire Research Station.
A visual record of the failure of the Teton Dam in south-eastern Idaho on 5 June 1976.
Looks at how an earthquake shattered San Francisco in 1906 and a more recent earthquake in suburban Los Angeles. Also looks at the causes of earthquakes and at fault systems. Examines the attempts by NASA to...
Shows ways in which gabions are used for walls, groynes and outfalls on the coast and in tidal waters. First or second year undergraduates in civil engineering.*
Weirs and groyning systems in rivers. The film covers only one of several techniques in the field. Shows a variety of structures.
Looks at the contribution that civil engineers make in achievements such as bridges, dams and harbours, and in less spectacular work.
Shows the first blast, the building of the world highest steel bridge, and the construction of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.
Contemporary account of the construction and operation of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, completed in 1936 as Boulder Dam and given it original name in 1947.
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