TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agrawal,Roma
TI  - Built: the hidden stories behind our structures 
SN  - 9781408870372 (pbk.) :
U1  - 624.1 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Structural engineering
KW  - Buildings
KW  - Technology
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Imagine you woke up one morning to find everything created by engineers had disappeared. What would you see? No cars, no houses; no phones, bridges or roads. No tunnels under tidal rivers, no soaring skyscrapers. The impact that engineering has had on the human experience is undeniable, but it is also often invisible. Structural engineer Roma Agrawal takes a unique look at how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach hundreds of metres into the sky. She unearths how engineers have tunnelled through kilometres of solid mountains; how they've bridged across the widest and deepest of rivers, and tamed Nature's precious - and elusive - water resources
ER  -