Engineers Day 2023: A shoutout to modern civil engineering marvels
Civil engineers are weighed by the materiality of their concerns. On Engineer's Day, we laud a profession that shapes, in concrete terms, the forms—and dreams—on a drawing board
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, a marvel of engineering that consists of a 27-km ring of superconducting magnets with several accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles, such as protons, to cause collisions that produce massive particles, such as the Higgs boson or the top quark. Situated in Geneva, Switzerland, LHC hopes to find new particles that would explain, among other things, dark matter, one of the great enigmas of the Universe.
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The world's largest artificial island, Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, UAE, was built from piling up tons of sand and rock in the ocean. Workers dredged up more than 3 billion cubic feet of sand to build Palm Jumeirah, the first of the three islands that make up Palm Island. The archipelago is shaped like a palm with a trunk that stretches two kilometres, a crown made up of sixteen fronds and a surrounding crescent.
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The International Space Station is a large, habitable space station that orbits the Earth at an altitude of approximately 408 km. A highly-lauded civil work in space, the ISS is the result of five space agencies—NASA, the European Space Agency, the Japanese Space Exploration Agency, the Russian Federal Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency—that worked together on its construction and operation.
