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Silverline project
2. Father of Civil engineering- John Smeaton
3. Total road length in india- 62 Lakhs Km
4. NH length- 1.36 Lakh km
5. Expressway length- 2074km
6. Purvanchal Expressway[1] is a 340.8 km long 6 lane. The Purvanchal Expressway has a 3.2 km
long airstrip at Akhalkiri Karwat village near Kurebhar in Sultanpur district for emergency
landing of aircraft
7. Tehri dam- 260.5 m (Earth fill dam) 1000MW, Garhwal, UK
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLzM05QrBM

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10. Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Bhakra Village near Bilaspur in
Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh in northern India. 226 m height and length is 518 m,
785MW, 9600 million cum water storage capacity
11. Highway length USA- 2.6 Lakh km
12. According to the World Commission on Dams, a key difference between a barrage and a
dam is that a dam is built for water storage in a reservoir, which raises the level of water
significantly. A barrage is built for diverting water, and raises the water level by only a few
feet.
13. Cement inventor- Joseph Aspdin
14. Manufacturing is responsible on climate change by 31%
15. 1 ton of cement manufacturing cause 1 ton of CO2 emission
16. Cement manufacturing causes 8% of global CO2 emission
17. Transportation cause 16% emission
18. CaCO3 CaO + CO2
19. Alternative of cement- Green concrete, Fly ash, Pervious concrete,
20. Golden quadrilateral- Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata- 5800km
21. North south corridor- 4000km Srinagar to Kanyakumari.
22. East West corridor- 3300 Km Porbandar to Silchar.
23. Engineers day- 15 Sept, Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
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