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  2. Embankment (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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    An embankment is a raised wall, bank or mound made of earth or stones, that are used to hold back water or carry a roadway. A road , railway line , or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain , the alternatives being either to have an ...

  3. Construction management - Wikipedia

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    Construction management (CM) aims to control the quality of a construction project's scope, time, and cost (sometimes referred to as a project management triangle or

  4. Embankment - Wikipedia

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    Embankment dam, a dam made of mounded earth and rock; Land reclamation along river banks, usually marked by roads and walkways running along it, parallel to the river, as in: The Thames Embankment along the north side of the Thames River in London, England The Victoria Embankment contained within the Thames Embankments

  5. Cut (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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    Cuts are typically used in road, rail, and canal construction to reduce a route's length and grade. Cut and fill construction uses the spoils from cuts to fill in defiles to create straight routes at steady grades cost-effectively. Cuts are used as alternatives to indirect routes, embankments, or viaducts.

  6. Cut and fill - Wikipedia

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    A mass haul diagram where land and rock cuts are hauled to fills Fill construction in 1909 Cut & Fill Software showing cut areas highlighted in red and fill areas shaded in blue. In earthmoving , cut and fill is the process of constructing a railway , road or canal whereby the amount of material from cuts roughly matches the amount of fill ...

  7. Culvert - Wikipedia

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    Construction or installation at a culvert site generally results in disturbance of the site's soil, stream banks, or stream bed, and can result in the occurrence of unwanted problems such as scour holes or slumping of banks adjacent to the culvert structure. [2] [4] Culverts must be properly sized and installed, and protected from erosion and ...

  8. Flood embankment - Wikipedia

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    A flood embankment is ... This is an animation showing a flood event overwhelming neighbouring properties and the added construction of a flood embankment and flood ...

  9. Geotechnical engineering - Wikipedia

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    Selection of quantities to be observed as construction proceeds and calculating their anticipated values based on the working hypothesis under the most unfavorable conditions. Selection, in advance, of a course of action or design modification for every foreseeable significant deviation of the observational findings from those predicted.