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Ampera Bridge (Indonesian: Jembatan Ampera, for Amanat Penderitaan Rakyat [Mandate of People's Suffering], a now-rarely used colloquial name for the preamble of the Constitution of Indonesia), formerly Bung Karno Bridge (Indonesian: Jembatan Bung Karno, after President Sukarno) between its opening and the 1966 De-Sukarnoization campaign, is a vertical-lift bridge in the city of Palembang ...
Robert Maillart, c. 1925. Robert Maillart (16 February 1872 – 5 April 1940) was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings.
Barelang Bridge (Indonesian: Jembatan Barelang) is a chain of 6 bridges of various types that connected the Barelang island group of Riau Archipelago built in 1997. The smaller islands of Tonton, Nipah, and Setotok (considered parts of the Batam island group) connect Batam and Rempang, while a further small island - Galang Baru - is connected at the southern end of the chain.
As a young civil engineer, J.A.L. Waddell spent the first decade after his graduation from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the academic realm. He taught at his alma mater, authored numerous engineering papers, and eventually served as the Chair of Civil Engineering at the Imperial University at Tokyo between 1882-1886.
The Kutai Kartanegara Bridge (also known as the Mahakam II Bridge) is an arch bridge, formerly a suspension bridge, located in Kutai Kartanegara Regency, East Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
As a result of the urges of the Dutch government, there was a physical conflict with the Indonesian Youth who wanted to defend their homeland and the occupied buildings, including the "Gedung Sate" which had become the Public Works Department Building at that time (this historic event is known as the "incident" of 3 December 1945, marked as an ...
The Suramadu Bridge (Indonesian: Jembatan Suramadu, Javanese: Kreteg Suramadu, Madurese: Tètè Suramadu; from the abbreviation of Surabaya–Madura Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge between Surabaya on the island of Java and southern Bangkalan Regency on the island of Madura in Indonesia. [4]
The bridge is located in South Kalimantan province, in Barito Kuala Regency, on the island of Borneo in the Indonesian Archipelago.It carries the Trans-Kalimantan Highway Southern Route across the Barito River and Bakut Island [3] about 22.6 miles (36.4 kilometers) north of where the river empties into the Java Sea.