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Zhangjiajie, a scenic national park in the country's Hunan province, is set to open the world's longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge in July. Spanning two cliffs in the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon area, it will stretch 430 meters long and six meters wide, hovering over a 300-meter vertical drop. It takes the title of world's highest from Canada's Glacier Skywalk, which opened last year in Alberta, and is suspended at almost 300 metres. Apparently, the bridge in Zhangjiajie - capable of holding up to 800 people at once - will also be used as a runway for fashion shows. But if a stroll in the sky sounds a little tame, you could always brave the world's highest bungee jump, something else it will offer. The bridge is due to open in July this year. A designated tourist park, Zhangjiajie is said to have been the inspiration behind the planet Pandora in James Cameron's 2009 movie, Avatar.

An experimental bike path that also functions as a giant solar cell has far exceeded expectations in the six months it's been in use -- and that has scientists eyeing roadways as possible sources of solar energy to power street lights, traffic systems, and electric cars. SolaRoad, as the first-of-its-kind path is known, opened in November 2014 in Krommenie, a village northwest of the Dutch city of Amsterdam. So far, it's generated enough energy to power a one-person household for an entire year, the Associated Press reported. "We did not expect a yield as high as this so quickly," Sten de Wit, a senior advisor at the Netherlands-based engineering firm TNO, which is part of the consortium that created the 70-meter-long path, said in a written statement. He added that the path had generated an excess of 3,000 kilowatt-hours. "If we translate this to an annual yield, we expect more than the 70 kWh per square meter per year, which we predicted as an upper li...

Taipei 101 , formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a landmark supertall skyscraper in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building was officially classified as the world's tallest in 2004, and remained such until the opening of Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010. In 2011, the building was awarded the LEED platinum certification, the highest award according the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, and became the tallest and largest green building in the world. The Taipei 101 tower comprises 101 floors above ground and 5 floors underground. It was not only the first building in the world to break the half-kilometer mark in height, but also formerly the world's tallest building from March 2004 to 10 March 2010 and it still remains the world's tallest, largest and highest-use green building since 28 July 2011.      Upon its completion Taipei 101 set records in three skyscraper categories; at the time it remained the world...

The Tekeze dam in Ethiopia MARINA BAY SANDS PALM ISLAND, DUBAI Columns of Hoover Dam being filled with concrete, February 1934 BURJ KHALIFA WTC View of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction Caijiagou Railway viaduct MILLAU VIADUCT Tower Bridge under construction, 1892

Karakoram Highway that connects Pakistan with China - 8th Wonder of the World Dudhsagar Falls, Goa The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international road in the world Uttarakhand Mountains in China's Henan Province The Guoliang Tunnel is carved along the side of and through a mountain in China. The Landwasser Viaduct is a single track six-arched curved limestone railway viaduct. It spans the Landwasser River between Schmitten and Filisur, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney to Port 

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1. San Francisco International Airport SFO is the largest airport in the San Francisco Bay Area and the second busiest in California, after Los Angeles International Airport. In 2013 it was the seventh busiest in the United States and the twenty-first busiest airport in the world by passenger count. 2. Hong Kong International Airport The Hong Kong International Airport is also home to one of the world's largest passenger terminal buildings (the largest when opened in 1998). Hong Kong International Airport is one of the busiest airports in Asia. Operated by the Airport Authority Hong Kong 24 hours a day 3. Dubai International Airport Dubai International is situated in the Al Garhoud district, 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) east of Dubai, and spread over an area of 2,900 hectares (7,200 acres) of land. the Emirates hub is the largest airline hub in the Middle East; Emirates now handles 64 per cent of all passenger traffic, and accounts for about 50 per cent of a...

CONCRETE the world's most popular building material, and ever since the Romans built the pantheon from it some 2,000 years ago, we've been trying to find ways to make concrete more durable. No matter how carefully it is mixed or reinforced, all concrete eventually cracks, and under some conditions, those cracks can lead to collapse. "The problem with cracks in concrete is leakage," explains professor Henk Jonkers, of Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands. "If you have cracks, water comes through -- in your basements, in a parking garage. Secondly, if this water gets to the steel reinforcements -- in concrete we have all these steel rebars -- if they corrode, the structure collapses." But Jonkers has come up with an entirely new way of giving concrete a longer life. "We have invented bioconcrete -- that's concrete that heals itself using bacteria," he says. The bioconcrete is mixed just like regular concr...

1. CREATIVITY Engineers bring Ideas into plans and make them real, Engineers have the unique ability to combine strong technical competence with creative designing. They need to know the ins and outs of building construction, including electrical and plumbing systems and functional workings. However, engineers often love the challenge of making plans that balance functional value with aesthetic appeal. In communities that emphasize contemporary design structure, engineers often renovate or rebuild more creative structures where older, more traditional structures once stood. 2. FIELD WORK Civil engineers do spend some time in their offices planning, making appointments and participating in meetings. However, much of their work time is spent outdoors at work sites where they monitor buildings and projects and resolve project issues. The nature of the work keeps civil engineers active and on the move. It is also dynamic, which means each project has its own distinct design ch...