Civil Engineering

Maritime law, also called admiralty law, or admiralty, the body of legal rules that governs ships and shipping. In English-speaking countries,…

Carriage of goods, in law, the transportation of goods by land, sea, or air. The relevant law…

Air law, the body of law directly or indirectly concerned with civil aviation. Aviation in…

Tunnels and underground excavations, horizontal underground passageway produced by excavation or occasionally by nature’s action in…

Lighthouse, structure, usually with a tower, built onshore or on the seabed to serve as…

Harbours and sea works, harbour also spelled harbor, any part of a body of water and…

Canals and inland waterways, natural or artificial waterways used for navigation, crop irrigation, water supply, or drainage. Despite modern…

Bridge, structure that spans horizontally between supports, whose function is to carry vertical loads. The…

The Romans had realized that a coordinated system of roadways connecting the major areas of…