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Technology · Engineering
…that nobody else is looking.” The Varne bridge is not unusual. Over the past two decades, bridges, tunnels, and dams have been fitted with instruments as a matter of course: strain gauges that measure how far…
Ideas · Essay
…first entry in a daybook. The second concerns honors. We give prizes for new buildings, new bridges, new software, and new books. We could give them for duration. Since 2019 the Halbridge Civic Trust has awarded…
Politics · Government
…one nobody writes about.” The department she runs looks after 1,900 public buildings, 640 bridges on the national road network, 38 dams, the coastal flood barriers at Halbridge and Port Ellery, and the trunk…