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1. Jinping-I Dam Height: 305 m (1,001 ft) Type: Concrete Arch Location: China 2. Nurek Dam Height:300 m (980 ft) Type: Embankment, earth-fill Location: Tajikistan 3.Xiaowan Dam Height: 292 m (958 ft) Type: Concrete Arch Location: China 4.Xiluodu Dam Height: 285.5 m (937 ft) Type: Concrete Arch Location: China 5.Grande Dixence Dam Height: 285 m (935 ft) Type: Concrete Gravity Location: Switzerland 6. Inguri Dam Height: 271.5 m (891 ft) Type: Concrete Arch Location: Georgia 7.Manuel Moreno Torres Dam Height: 261 m (856 ft) Type: Embankment Earth fill Location: Mexico 8.Nuozhadu Dam Height: 261 m (856 ft) Type: Embankment Location: China 9.Tehri Dam Height: 260.5 m (855 ft) Type:  Embankment Earth fill Location: India 10.Mauvoisin Dam Height: 250 m (820 ft) Type: Concrete Arch Location: Switzerland

Syncrude Tailings Dam(Canada) Height 133 to 288 ft (41 to 88 m) (2001) Length 11.3 miles (18.2 km) (2001) Tarbela Dam(Pakistan) Height 143.26 metres (470 ft) from river level Length 2,743.2 metres (9,000 ft) Fort Peck Dam(United States) Height 250 ft (76 m) Length 21,026 ft (6,409 m) Width (crest) 50 ft (15 m) Width (base) 3,500 ft (1,100 m) Dam volume 125,628,000 cu yd (96,049,000 m3) Spillway type Controlled overflow, 8x bulkhead gates Spillway capacity 250,000 cu ft/s (7,100 m3/s) Atatürk Dam(Turkey) Height 169 m (554 ft) Length 1,819 m (5,968 ft) Houtribdijk(Netherlands) Total length 30 km Width 68 m Oahe Dam(United States) Height 245 feet (75 m) Length 9,360 feet (2,850 m) Dam volume 93,122,000 cubic yards (71,197,000 m3) Gardiner Dam(Canada) Height 64 m (210 ft) Length 5,000 m (16,400 ft) Spillway type Gated overflow Spillway capacity 7,500 m3/s (264,860 cu ft/s) Mangla Dam(Pakistan) Height 147 m (482 ft) Length 3,140 m (10,302 ft)

Akashi Kaikyō Bridge Span: 1991m Year Opened: 1998 Location: Japan Xihoumen Bridge Span: 1650m Year Opened: 2009 Location: China Great Belt Bridge Span: 1624m Year Opened:1998 Location: Denmark Yi Sun-sin Bridge Span: 1545m Year Opened: 2012 Location: South Korea Runyang Bridge Span: 1490m Year Opened: 2005 Location: China Nanjing Fourth Yangtze Bridge Span: 1418m Year Opened:2012 Location: China Humber Bridge Span:1410m Year Opened: 1981 Location: USA Jiangyin Bridge Span: 1385m Year Opened: 1999 Location: China Tsing Ma Bridge Span: 1377m Year Opened: 1997 Location: Hong Kong Hardanger Bridge Span: 1310m Year Opened: 2013 Location: Norway

Hoover dam Bypass bridge New Forth Road Bridge,Scotland Under Construction in 1963 al-Rahman mosque under construction. The building is 750 feet across ( 250~meters) and occupies 11 acres. One world Trade Centre San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Skyway Sidney Lanier Bridge Gordon Dam Three Gorges Dam Infinity Tower (Dubai) CCTV Tower, Beijing

National Centre for the Performing Arts (China) Brooklyn Bridge USA Burj Khalifa, Dubai Burj Al Arab,Dubai Cocoon Tower, Tokyo Cologne Cathedral Hohenzollern Bridge, Germany Octavio Frias De Oliveira Bridge  CCTV Tower, China Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australia Hong Kong Cayan Tower, Dubai USA China Newyork Skyline Petronas Tower, Malaysia Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Source: Google